(ANSA) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 27 – The wait is over. After the clues left in recent days on social media, like breadcrumbs sown by Pollicino, Damiano David released his first solo single, Silverlines, at 1am tonight. “My name is Damiano David. I was born in 1999 in Rome, Italy. I love music, art and women. I love the feeling of wearing nice clothes and the smell of good perfume. In my life I have been a thief, a liar, a lover, a transformer. I traveled all over the world to find my voice, and then ended up where it all began in recent days, announcing his project away from Maneskin, with whom he achieved fame and success far beyond national borders. With the arrival of Silverlines, his new life (at least the artistic one) truly begins. Anyone expecting a Damiano in line with the Roman band might be surprised, if not taken aback. The change of register is not only in the look, with the farewell to the excessive, transgressive and gender fluid costumes to which he had accustomed us with the Roman band, in favor of a more mature man’s outfit, jacket and soft trousers, Latin tank top lover to remember the cinema of the past, combined with a mustache and slicked hair. The change is also stylistic. Silverlines (Sony Music Italy/Arista Records), 3 minutes and 42 seconds in the long version, strictly in English, starts with a crackling radio transmission and then leaves room for Damiano’s powerful and enveloping voice, accompanied only by a piano, with a strong emotional impact. The song is the result of the collaboration with the English singer-songwriter and producer Labrinth, who also oversaw its successful production. “I feel / sorrow no more / the calm / after the storm / and peace belongs to me” (I no longer feel pain, the calm after the storm and the peace belongs to me), sings the artist who also in the lyrics, intimate and poetic, he seems to claim a maturity and awareness no longer of a boy but of an adult man. “Look at those light rays / No dark days anymore”. Images and sensations that take you back to a dreamlike and cinematic world, also supported by the official video, directed by the duo Nono + Rodrigo. Silverlines is the first piece, the calling card of a larger project that the 25-year-old artist is working on, who has achieved success from the streets of Rome, where he began his journey together with his bandmates Victoria, Ethan and Thomas. internationally, going with Maneskin from participation in the X Factor to victory at the Sanremo festival and the Eurovision Song Contest to affirmation on the world music scene. Silverlines is the first step of a new path which, however, has been reiterated several times, is not a farewell to the band, but the result of the need to express a more personal and intimate part of oneself. So all that remains is to say goodbye see you soon to Damiano dei Maneskin and in the meantime welcome Damiano David. (HANDLE).
2024-09-27 15:16:34