#Sergio Cammariere

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La rosa filosofale by Sergio Cammariere

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Dalla pace del mare lontano - Sergio Cammariere

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Ti lascerei ore ed ore a passeggiare nel mio cuore perché lo sai che c'è una stanza lì dove vivi solo tu

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Eurovision 2007 - Number 19 - Simone Cristicchi - "Ti regalerò una rosa"

Another one from the third night of Sanremo with guests alongside the main artist. This is a jazzier version of the winning song this year, with Sergio Cammariere joining Simone Cristicchi on piano. Simone is in his first main Sanremo competition having competed in the Giovani section in 2006. He's had an ever impressing musical career to this point.

He got his start by performing on small stages in Rome. It was there that he came to the attention of other musicians such as Max Gazzè and Niccolò Fabi. As well as competing in several musical festivals, he supported them in their concerts. A record deal followed as well as an appearance on the 2003 show Destination Sanremo - a pre-Sanremo talent show to select that year's Giovani contenders. He didn't get to Sanremo that year.

He did eventually make it in 2006, placing as runner-up. For 2007 he got the invite to the main competition for the first time. He presented Ti regalerò una rosa (I'll Give You a Rose). It's a conversational song that includes some rapped/spoken word sections drawing on Simone's other performance skill of delivering theatrical monologues. It's a gentle and reflective piece for what is a devastating sad story.

Simone has always had an interest in mental health, asylums and hospitals having volunteered in one when he was younger. The song is a story drawn from the letters he found in the archives of the Volterra psychiatric hospital from various patients there. The subject, Antonio, is on the brink of suicide, but wants to be remembered by his love Margherita. It's poetry really rather than a song, but it's beautifully, written finding humanity in the darkest of places, the tragedy of forty years of heartbreak and isolation from the world.

Unsurprisingly it won. It also won the critics' award and the press award, and it went on to get to number three in the Italian charts and be a hit on the radio. Given the sadness and tragedy inherent in the song, that commercial success is perhaps more surprising than the win at Sanremo. It's even more surprising given Simone had two previous singles censored prior to 2007. One for using swearing to mock other pop music and one for a criticism of the Catholic Church. He had a reputation as an agitator. But he was also a very talented musician and performer.

Later in 2007, he published a book of his travels around Italy's mental health institutions and asylums, telling the stories of those incarcerated inside them. He later took part in two other Sanremo main competitions, 2010 and 2013, as well as guesting with other performers on two other occasions. He's released five studio albums since as well as performing at numerous festivals and supporting causes associated with mental health and prisons and those inside them. He's not someone to shy away from controversy even today.

This is a duet with Simona Molinari he performed on a TV show entitled Le poche cose che contano (The Few Things that Matter). It's a song called La Cura (The Cure) performed in the parish church at Romena.

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Parce que tu sais qu'il y a une chambre dans mon coeur où tu ne vis que toi.

- Sergio Cammariere

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Solamente tu sai, anche senza parole

Dirmi quello che voglio sentire da te

Io non ti lascerò fino a quando vivrò

Tutto quello che un uomo può fare stavolta per te lo farò

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Sergio Cammariere - Tutto Quello Che Un Uomo

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Ti lascerei ore ed ore passeggiare nel mio cuore Perché lo sai che c’è una stanza nel mio cuore dove vivi solo tu Sergio Cammariere

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Sergio Cammariere - Tutto Quello Che Un Uomo

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«Unirò l'universo al mio cuore e nel mio sogno tu sarai la realtà»

(Sergio Cammariere)

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E ho messo le parole ad asciugare al sole

come se il vento potesse portarle da te...

Sergio Cammariere

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Eurovision 2003 - Number 18 - Sergio Cammariere - "Tutto quello che un uomo"

Not the Sanremo performance - this is one that has remained vanished from YouTube. That's possibly because Sergio Cammariere is a big deal. Even before this, his very first Sanremo song, he was six albums into a stellar jazz career. He had a song-writing partnership with lyricist and poet Roberto Kunstler. As well as playing at some big venues and concerts, he'd performed and written for several film soundtracks.

The jazz world and Sanremo don't have great overlap so it's not altogether surprising that Sergio had not performed there prior to 2003. It was a year of rapid ascent for his career with other awards being won by him including best live performer.

Roberto Kunstler's words on Tutto quello che un uomo (Everything That a Man) are an ode to a woman, who is Sergio's everything. His rock, his sky, his dream, everything. The unfinished title is only completed in the repeated final line when we find out that his partner is everything that a man ...sognare potrà (could dream of).

The song is beautiful. It's gently meandering, Sergio lost in his wistful words at the wonder of this woman in his life. It's a cool celebration of a person, it's lack of heat making his considered words all the more heartfelt and authentic. The jazz elements of this include a muted trumpet that echo his thoughts, as well as a double-bass and brushed drum accompaniment. These things are most certainly unusual for Sanremo.

Perhaps because of it's jazz-adjacency, it didn't quite win. It came third but did win both the Mia Martini Critics Award and the Best Music award for the year. Both much deserved.

Since 2003, Sergio has released 14 more albums, a few singles, competed at Sanremo once more (2008) as well as guesting there in duos a few times, and generally continued the life of a jazz composer, for performance and screen. Here's the lead and title track from his most recent album Una sola giornata

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Se non fosse per te cosa avrebbe un senso

Sotto a questo cielo immenso niente più sarebbe vero

Se non fosse per te come immaginare

una canzone da cantare a chi non vuol sentirsi solo

Se non fosse per te crollerebbe il mio cielo

Se non fosse per te sarei niente, lo sai

Perché senza te io non vivo

E mi manca il respiro se tu te ne vai..

Sergio Cammariere,

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“Una pioggia di stelle ora brilla nell'aria

Ed il mondo mi appare per quello che è

Un oceano da attraversare

Per un cuore di donna o la spada di un re”

“Tu sarai la regina dei miei desideri

L'orizzonte costante di questa realtà

Tu che sei per me, come vedi

Tutto quello che un uomo sognare potrà”

Erano altri tempi...Pt.1

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Un tempo te la dedicavano

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Sergio Cammariere - Via Da Questo Mare