In today’s music section of Domenica In, September 22nd, Marco Masini, the Florentine singer-songwriter who turned 60 on September 18th, will perform. He will present some of his greatest hits in addition to his new single ‘Allora ciao’, released these days.
Domenica In, today’s guests: from the return of Stefano Tacconi to television (with his wife and son) to the performance of Marco Masini
Masini will give the audience a medley of his successes. In anticipation of the live interview with Mara Venier at 2pm, we will learn more about him.
Who is Marco Masini?
Marco Masini was born in Florence on September 18, 1964 (he is 60 years old) and was interested in music since he was a child. During his school years he formed the band ‘Errata Corrige’. One of his teachers was Walter Savelli. Despite having written many songs, Masini had difficulty finding a record label to support him. Debutant Masini was awarded in 1990 at the Sanremo Festival in the ‘Novità’ category with the song ‘Disperato’. Thanks to Bob Rosati, arranger and owner of a studio in Sesto Fiorentino, Masini began to record his first demos and met Beppe Dati, a composer and poet with whom he wrote some songs. In 1986 there was an important meeting with Giancarlo Bigazzi. Masini has collaborated on the creation of soundtracks (Mediterraneo, Mery per sempre, Ragazzi fuori), was the lead vocalist of ‘Si può dare di più’ performed by the trio Morandi, Ruggeri and Tozzi at the Sanremo Festival and performed as concert pianist in Tozzi’s tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
The career
Masini took part in the 40th Festival of Italian Music in Sanremo in 1990 with the song ‘Disperato’, which he wrote together with Bigazzi and Dati. At the time he took first place in the ‘Novità’ category. Masini took part in the 1991 Sanremo Festival with the song ‘Perché lo fai’, which took third place, after Riccardo Cocciante and Renato Zero. The song was originally to be sung by Umberto Tozzi with a different title, different lyrics and a different arrangement, but eventually Bigazzi decided to give the song to Masini, while Tozzi sang ‘Gli altri siamo noi’ in that edition of the festival. The following album was an extraordinary sales success (more than 800,000 copies sold). The big success was achieved with the song ‘Vaffanculo’, which, however, met with censorship, similar to the following ‘Bella Stronza’.
Harbinger of bad luck?
Marco Masini a ‘bringer of bad luck’? Throughout his career, the singer has been called someone who ‘brings bad luck’, a reputation that prevented him from achieving further success in the early stages of his career. Like Mia Martini, Masini was also branded a ‘bringer of bad luck’ in the entertainment world, a rumor that seriously jeopardized his career. The singer has spoken several times about the darkest period of his career, stressing that the thing started almost as a joke, but then escalated completely uncontrollably. ‘I don’t believe in the malice of people. Nobody did it on purpose, I don’t think it started out of hatred,’ he explained on a Paola Perego show. ‘It started out as a joke, it happened like Mimì. For her, it happened by chance while setting up the stage for a concert. For me, because of the songs I wrote. Those who identified with it thought they would help them get out of a sad moment. Those who did not live that moment and were not interested in the generational malaise saw me as a negative singer because I expressed negative concepts. But I was never angry with anyone.’ It was hard for him too: ‘At one point I thought about retiring. It was a persecution, I could no longer even go to a bar to have a coffee. There were people who turned around and touched each other. I felt defenseless because that is a deadly weapon.’ And he continues: ‘The darkest moment was in 2001. My manager received a letter from a TV station saying: ‘We are sorry, the piece is very beautiful, but your artist radiates negative energies.’ A record label gave me back the contract because it had no budget for my projects and was having difficulty promoting me.’
The death of mother Anna
Marco Masini had to experience the death of his mother Anna Maria when he was only 17 years old. The woman died prematurely from an illness when the songwriter was still a minor and in the last year of his military service. The woman fought for years against a terrible tumor. A pain that marked the life of Marco Masini, as he himself said in an interview with Verissimo. ‘I believe that the most important thing for a person is to respect your neighbour, it is not necessary to believe or not to believe… The disappointment at the death of my mother Anna Maria was great, I could not understand it; from then on I lost a little faith…’
The girlfriend and where he lives
The artist is very reserved and values his privacy. He is not married, but in 2001 he revealed a relationship with Aurora Nardozzi, a former admirer of Jack Vanore on the show ‘Uomini e Donne’. The two, who had an age difference of 21 years, separated in 2023. The singer explained the reasons for the separation in an interview with ‘Visto’: ‘It ended because of character incompatibility. I don’t believe in eternal love. Living together helps to speed up certain processes. Separations are always traumatic.’ Currently, the singer is not officially in a relationship with anyone and has no children, although he has always had the desire to become a father, as he himself explained: ‘A child offers a confrontation with ourselves, with what we are and what we want to become. If it doesn’t come, especially because you have to be two, I don’t try to invent anything.’ It is not known exactly which neighborhood he lives in, but we know that he lives in the province of Florence.
The Japanese hair
In an interview with the Corriere, he looked back on his life full of victories and defeats. One of his greatest ‘vanities’ was certainly his hair. ‘I started losing it as a boy, when I was doing military service in the Vam, the air force surveillance, because of the tight helmet. I didn’t do a hair transplant, but a filling with artificial hair, they are Japanese, they hold up to 80 kg of traction.’
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