He had a love. LGBT people in Fabrizio De André's songs
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Fabrizio De Andrè's songs (February 18, 1940-11 January 1999) can tell stories, emotions and dreams of our time ... Among the many themes of his repertoire we also find the homosexuality he describes through the texts of his songs in which he portrays different Gay figures, "defined by him children of the moon".
The soldier Andrea, in love with a farmer, of the homonymous song. The trans Fernanda, inspired by a true story, the prostitute protagonist of via del Campo who was actually a man, Mario, aka Morena, who passed away not long after De André.
On texts often also face religious arguments, characterized by a personal and disenchanted Christian philosophy. "However, the attitude held by De Andrè towards the ecclesiastical hierarchies, is often sarcastic and strongly critical in contesting their contradictory behavior, such as, for example, in the songs "A blasphemous", "The Title Testament", "The ballad of the Michè ". This idiosyncrasy for the clergy founds its roots, probably, in De André's childhood, during his stay, in the lower middle school, at the Arecco Institute, a school managed by the Jesuits and frequented by the body of the "Genoa-Bene".
During the first year he was the victim of an attempt at sexual harassment by one of the Jesuits of the Institute; Despite the age, the reaction to the "spiritual father" was ready and, above all, rowdy and prolonged, so much so as to induce the direction to expel the young De André, in an attempt to appease the scandal.
The improved expedient, however, proved to be vain since, due to the expulsion measure, the father of Fabrizio, exponent of the resistance and deputy mayor of Genoa, also learned of the episode, who informed the provider of the studies by demanding an immediate Inquiry that ended with the removal from the Jesuit educational institution», cit. taken from Wikipedia.
The theme of homosexuality is also present in some songs by the singer -songwriter where several gay figures appear. The soldier Andrea, in love with a farmer, of the homonymous song. The Trans Fernanda, inspired by a true story, protagonist of "Princesa", a piece of opening of "Anime Salve". In addition, the prostitute protagonist of via del Campo would have really existed and it seems that it was actually a man, Mario, aka Morena, who passed away not long after De André », from historydellamusica.it
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Andrea (1978)
"The song speaks of a son of the moon, the victim of the war. The environment recalls the world of fairy tales, but the pain for loss of beloved is tragically real. So Andrea suicide by throwing himself into the plus bottom of the bottom of the eyes of the night of crying; This act seems to him the only way to win the pain», cit. by Matteo Borsani and Luca Maciacchini, Save soul, p. 114.
"We dedicate this song to those that Plato called, in a poetic way, the children of the moon; To the people we call gay or, for a strange form of complacency, different, if not asses. I am pleased to sing it like this, with lights on, to demonstrate that today you can simply be yourself without the need to be ashamed», From the presentation of De Andrè to the concert held at the Smerald theater in Milan on January 19, 1992.
Andrea has lost herself he lost himself and cannot return
Andrea has lost herself he lost himself and cannot return
Andrea had a love, Black curls
Andrea had pain, black curls.
It was written on the sheet that had died on the flag
It was written and the signature was gold, was the signature of king
Killed on the mountains of Trento by the machine gun.
Killed on the mountains of Trento by the machine gun.
Eyes of the berries, farmer of the kingdom, French profile
Wood eyes, soldier of the kingdom, french profile
And Andrea lost it, he lost love, the rarer pearl
And Andrea has in his mouth, he has a pain in his mouth, the darker pearl.
Andrea gathered violets on the edges of the well
Andrea threw black curls into the circle of the well
The bucket said to him: Lord, the well is deep
plus bottom of the bottom of the eyes of the night of crying.
He said, "It is enough for me, it is enough for me to be deeper than me.
He said, "It is enough for me, it is enough for me to be deeper than me.
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Via del Campo (1967)
The songwriter's path of Fabrizio De André began in Genoa on the disconnected and wet flooring of the Via del Campo, once "prohibited by the day as far as the night is attended.
It is in that ghetto of humanity blatantly rejected and secretly craving that they would have taken its inspirations shape; of ghetto in ghetto, from prostitutes to ethnic minorities, passing through disinherited, deserters, bombarols and an infinite number of other figures.
In his anthology of losers, where the essence of people counts more than the actions and their past, De André will reach high peaks of poetic lyricism ", cits from" not money, not to love or to heaven ", owl, March 1999.
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Via del Campo there is a graceful
large leaf -colored eyes
all night is on the threshold
it sells to everyone the same rose.
Via del Campo there is a little girl
with dew -colored lips
gray eyes like the road
i hide flowers where he walks.
Via del Campo there is a whore
large leaf -colored eyes
if you love it to love it
just take it for the hand
and you seem to go far
she looks at you with a smile
you did not believe that paradise
it was only there on the first floor.
Via del Campo there is an deluded
to ask her to marry
to see her climb the stairs
until the balcony closed.
Love and laugh if amor replies
cry strong if you don't hear you
nothing is born from the diamonds
fIOR are born from the manure
nothing is born from the diamonds
fior are born from the manure.
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Princea (1996)
This song is "the summary of the fundamental passages of the life of the protagonist, a list of joys and bad luck encountered in the stages of its various metamorphosis: as a child he finds himself taking female behaviors, then as a malterior female as for the enchantment of desires, trying first With chemical means and later through a vertigo of surgical anesthesia to resemble each other, to pay a deep desire that wants her woman.
To maintain himself, he practices the oldest profession in the world, until at the behest of fate he still turns, and for the last time, from a prostitute in the official lover of a lawyer ", cit. From "My notes in the margin", interview with De André by A. Gennari
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They are the sheep are the cow
that animals are wanted to play
i'm the female open shirt
small tits to suck.
Under the lashes of these trees
in the chiaroscuro where I was born
that the horizon before the sky
i was my mother's gaze
“That Fernandino is like a daughter
he brings me to bed Coffee and Tapioca
and to remind him that male was born
it will be the instinct will be life "
and I in front of the big mirror
i speak my eyes with my fingers to imagine me
between the legs a tiny cunt
in the sleeping of the bus
i leave peasant childhood
i run to the enchantment of desires
i'm going to correct luck
in the kitchen of the pension
i mix dreams with hormones
to alble it will be magic
they will be miraculous breasts
because Fernanda is just a daughter
how a daughter wants to make love
but Fernandino resists and vomits
and it is twisted from pain
so the scalpel for breasts and hips
in a vertigo of anesthesia
until my body resembles me
on the bahia Promenade
Tender smile of greenfoglia
his fingers take off his hair
when the machines point the headlights
on the stage of my life
where between swollen desires
to my buttocks a male is inspired
in my meat between my lips
one man slips the other surrenders
that Fernandino died on my lap.
Fernanda is a silk doll
they are the embers of a single star
that rings of light named Princesa
to a Milan lawyer
now Princesa gives the heart
and a tightening walking
in the twilight of a balcony
o matu (the campaign)
o cèu (the sky)
in senda (the path)
in escola (the school)
in igreja (the church)
in desonra (the shame)
in saia (the skirt)
o esmalte (the nail polish)
or espelho (the mirror)
o baton (the lipstick)
o Medo (fear)
in rua (the road)
in bombadeira (the modeling)
to Vertigem (Vertigo)
o Encanto (the spell)
in magic (magic)
oS carros (the machines)
in policia (the police)
in Canseira (tiredness)
o Brio (dignity)
or noivo (the boyfriend)
o hut (the sgherro)
o fidalgo (the gratsignor)
o poralhao (the dirty)
or azar (bad luck)
in bebedeira (La branza)
aS Pancadas (Botte)
oS carinhos (the caresses)
falta (bankruptcy)
or nojo (disgust)
formate (beauty)
live (live).
