Eight dates, 145 minutes of songs, 13 soloists including Saturnine but also a 22×8 screen and 10 flowers with rotating pods of 1300 kilos each traveling for 50 meters to a height of 15 meters and then LEDs and a latest generation audio system of 200 thousand watts. They are record numbers those with which Jovanotti From 22 March to April 1st, he arrives in Florence at the Mandela Forum with his Palajova. After seven years from the last tour in the sports halls, after the summers on the beach the singer returned with 50 dates to inflame the public and Florence is present with a roundup of dates, 8 evenings, which are already sold out.
The band and stage costumes
Together with Jovanotti That wears a wardrobe created ad hoc by Dior by Maria Grazia Chiuri for the tour (all the scenery costumes have been curated by Nicolò Cerioni who has collaborated with Lorenzo since 2011) on the stage of the show, who for thirty years has been produced by Trident Music by Maurizio Salvadori, there is the band with thirteen soloists. Saturnine On bass, Christian “Noochie” rigano to keyboards, Adriano Viterbini on guitar, Leo di Angilla and Kalifa Kone to the rhythmic, Carmine Landolfi on drums, Franco Santarnecchi on the floor, Gianluca Petrella in the wind section, Sophia Tomelleri at sax, Camilla Rolando at the trumpet, Molol Touadi and Jennifer Vargas Ai Coi, Moris Pradella, to the choirs and second guitar. The sound engineer is Pino “Pinaxa” Pischerola, who in addition to following the work in the recording studio since 2004, has collaborated on all Lorenzo’s shows since 2013.
The show of the show
The ladder proposes and combines great successes of the past as The navel of the world, The biggest show after the Big Bango I trust you to new songs taken from The human body: the opening of the show with Montecristothe Title Track of the album The human body, Outlance, 101 e A world apart.
Jovanotti’s words
“When I look at people in front of me I see a world that I like – he says Jovanotti – In which I like to find myself. It seems to me, and I like that it seems to me so and perhaps it is so, a variety of humanity gathered together so varied that I have only one way to define it: alive “. As for the set that is essential” the work done to set up this show comes right where I hoped, without mediation, straight to the point, like spring. When I started to imagine this tour, some elements emerged immediately: to have the best band in the world on stage to play everything live, giant flowers, a lot of light, strong contrasts between moments of great light and very intimate moments, romantic psychedelia, adventure, formal rigor at the service of chaos, rock’n’roll, a classic scenic system but able to surprise with a series of beginnings that follow one another over time Continuous, joy, a lot of joy, brazen joy, shameless joy, authentic and so absurd as to be irresistible – adds Jova.
The opening artists
To open the concerts of Florence at Nelson Mandela Forum there are Axell, a Senegalese artist among the prominent names of the new generation urban scene, and the young singer -songwriter Nicol, among the most intense emerging voices on the Italian scene. The first opens on 22 (and then Sunday 23, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 March) Nicol is expected on Tuesday 25 March, Wednesday 26 March, Monday 31 March and Tuesday 1 April.