“With Massimo Ranieri we have often worked together, we have done several duets, we are friends; rather: Friends with a capital A. With him and with Gianni Morandi we formed the trio of successful singers of the sixties, we shared the triumphs and the charts of the records, all three children of the proletariat, all three very attached to our roots. “This is what he is keen to emphasize at AdnKronos To the bathroom, on the occasion of Ranieri’s 70th birthday tomorrow.
Al Bano confesses his dream: “It would be really wonderful to do a tour of the three of us together; me, Massimo and Gianni We would ‘break’ everything with our voices and our stories, I’m sure it would be a record show. I can’t wait, because I’m sure we would do a huge ‘bang’!“.
But what do they have in common and what instead distinguishes Al Bano from Ranieri? “There are distinctions, fortunately, because each of us has his own characteristic and his own repertoire; moreover, Massimo has divided himself between the career of singer and that of actor, both in cinema and theater. in common the popular root and the southern one. Between us never envy and never rivalry, only respect for our people, for ours careers and for ours successes“.
(by Enzo Bonaiuto)