“I am grateful to Roberto Gualtieri, mayor of Rome Capital and to all those who confer this award on me today. For the first time I think of dedicating it to two people called Silvia and Riccardo, my mother and my father who, as soon as they finished war they thought of traveling 136 kilometers to leave their Umbrian town and come to the capital”. Claudio Baglioni, receiving the Capitoline Wolf from the mayor of Rome in the Capitol, addresses his thoughts and his thanks to his parents who wanted to move to the capital after the war.
“In my opinion, they did those 136 kilometers while flying – explains the 72-year-old Roman singer-songwriter – they had the wings of enthusiasm and the certainty that the future would be something better. They deserve the blame and credit for having made me born in this city , to have seen it grow because in all the houses where we stayed, in the suburbs, I saw the city grow. We moved with the city – he adds – initially it was a basement, then a first floor, until we arrived at the change of state, the There it happened that something was changing: we were in Centocelle. And there I signed up for a competition for new voices in the parish of San Felice di Cantalice, sixty years ago I found myself climbing the steps of the stage. he adds.
“This award confirms to me that not everything I have done has been in vain and something remains – he concludes – Rome is by far the city in which I have performed the most. I have done it everywhere and I believe that new spaces will need to be built for me to perform “.