Lifetime Achievement Award to Peppe Vessicchio. The daughter in Atreju: "He was everyone’s man"

An ovation greeted the Atreju stage Alessia Vessicchio, called to collect the lifetime achievement award awarded posthumously to her fatherPeppehistoric conductor who passed away a month ago. A recognition greeted by the audience with long applause, which transformed the moment into an affectionate tribute to one of the country’s most beloved musicians.

On stage, Alessia Vessicchio remembered her father with intense words: “First of all, thank you, thank you not as a word but truly thank you with all the substance that this word can have. It’s only been a month since my father left us without warning, in the sense that we didn’t think it could happen: we didn’t think because he was well, because he was 69 years old and we still had many plans”.

“But pain is not egocentrism – added Alessia Vessicchio – it is not only ours, pain is at the end of everyone and the difference is that I am privileged and I am privileged because I have the possibility of having so much love around me, so many recognitions, so many people who tell you the same things they said when he was alive, without rhetoric, without an extra word just because he is no longer here.”

The daughter then underlined the moral and artistic legacy of the master: “So I thank you from the bottom of my heart because my father was everyone’s man, he was a person who had no geographical, social, cultural or political place. He was everyone’s man and so truly heartfelt thanks to everyone, to all of you.”