“How do you fight time? You can still beat in time to the music“It is one of the passages of the thank you post that Claudio Baglioni published in the night, immediately after turning 70 at midnight, to thank the fans who have not limited themselves to thousands of messages of good wishes and love for his music but have also honored him with a mural, whose photo was published on social networks by the artist. In the district of Centocelle, where Baglioni spent his adolescence and took his first artistic steps, a large mural was created with the face of the singer-songwriter and the words of ‘Stradaendo’. The work was carried out on the wall of Casa San Felice, a family home run by the parish priest of the church of the same name in the Roman quarter (in Piazza di S. Felice da Cantalice, 20).
The staff of www.doremifasol.org (reference site for Baglioni fans) and the numerous followers have joined forces with the street artist Mauro Palotta, aka Maupal, to create a celebratory mural in a symbolic place for Claudio Baglioni. And Baglioni wrote a long letter on his social networks to thank them: “It’s an indescribable surprise. But how did you come up with it?!? In the neighborhood where I was a child and adolescent. In Centocelle, where I became a boy. In the square in which I climbed, for the first time, on a stage without remotely imagining what would happen next. On a wall of the San Felice family home right in front of that stage of the past. You thought it beautiful. A great thing for a good cause. My appreciation and gratitude do not have sufficient and adequate voice and words. It is a bizarre and amazing feeling. And, for once in a while, it is really nice to be ‘thrown into a wall’. “
“A wall – continues Baglioni – that in those years I feared would rise forever between me and all the others and which today bears witness to an encounter that has lasted ever since. A set of small stories that life has told or never known. in the novel of each of us. At the same moment I thank those who with different gifts and thoughts have remembered me and my next age. They are many in number and each with his signature and his imagination. well because I wouldn’t be able to give it. You grow up and grow up but you never stop being shy and shy. How can you fight time? You can still beat in time with the music. concludes the artist.