My parents have always told me that when I was a few months old and did not let them sleep, they managed to calm me down with a "Natalie Cole" record. I already had a bit "peculiar" tastes and above all I already needed music. Music is a need, a treatment, a relief for those who make it into their lives. Fortunately I grew up with music, I had many instruments at home and I could "play" with them. Often I look at old videos and one of them have remained me engraved in the mind; it's a video where I take my first steps while my father is playing the piano; it's a passage of Sergio Mendes taken from the album "Brasileiro". In this record there is also another song that when I listen to it now, magically brings me back to those moments, to the very first ratings, to the very first emotions; the song is "Lua Soberana" and for me it represents the first development of music in my soul and in my heart. My mom always reminds me that when I started talking to sing, the first song was and then of GIORGIA. My first years of life were "MUSIC" for breakfast, lunch and dinner. At 5 years my favorite programs were "BRAVO BRAVISSIMO" and "MTV", and every time someone came home, I did a mini concert with my microphone. Growing up and starting to go to school, it has not been easy to encounter with the real life; sometimes the school environment can be devastating for very sensitive people. When a child is dealing with bullying, there is never anything positive and it's difficult to get out even if the others are other children and they are not real problems, but at that moment they seem the end of days. One evening my mother told me that it would be a good idea to start playing an instrument like dad and I immediately thought about the "guitar"; it seemed me a beautiful plan starting to write all my songs. The guitar helped me to go out of a rough period, even if something inside me is always there. It still makes me wonder how many things in life do not make any sense. My first song with the guitar was Tracy Chapman. At that time I also discovered Joni Mitchell with the live DVD "Shadows And Light" with Jaco Pastorius And Pat Metheny. When I was 16 I formed my first band , 2 guitars 1 bass and a drum. To play with other boys of my age was very beautiful even if, thinking about it, the very first band was composed by my father playing the bass, my brother of 6 years playing the drum and me, as singer, playing the guitar. At that time they also began the first experiences in recording studio with the demos of my first songs. The recording studio is a place where I love to stay; it's where the memory of music is born, where the records are born. The records are like the photos, they are memories because they capture a moment that remains forever. The guitars for me have a soul, they contain all the emotions and turn them into music. I talk about guitars but in the end any instrument for me has a soul; this soul is built with time and with the experiences lived together. My first acoustic guitar was an Ovation and the first electric guitar a Strato EKO. For a period of my life I loved the acoustic guitar, I listened to the records of Norah Jones and the acoustic songs of John Mayer Or Eric Clapton. Everything changed when I bought the FENDER Stratocaster , a CLASSIC 7O. I started listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan And Jimi Hendrix. I remember the love at first sight with Fender; it was hanging high in the shop and I bear in mind that as soon as I played the first chords I said "I want her". After the Ovation, my acoustic guitar, I had a Takamine and I played really a lot with it, so many concerts and so many good and bad experiences. My dream was to have a Martin and Simona knew it well. One day, while we were in Rome she decided to go looking for one as I wanted, a small model Martin 000; we found it immediately and she gave me it with so much love. It had some strange streaks and instantly I realized that it would be my new life partner. The first nights I lay down it to me close to the bed; with it I wrote all the songs of my new album Something True. If I think about all that I have lived with the music, only beautiful moments remain on my mind, even if the ugly ones have been there but they have helped me to grow. After all, from my early age I always knew what I wanted to do in my life. Sometimes things become part of you and I believe that music does and will always be part of my soul.
Roberta.
