Alexia Interview @ TG Com



You remember from dance periode with "Me and You" “Ti amo ti amo’ or “Dimmi come’’
Now is back with a new look and new style of music rock.
TGCom: What a look! New cut and blond hair on the threshold of 41 years. Typically when women cut their hair ...
Alexia: Or have been left or are depressed! (laughs, editor's note)
TGCom:But what happened?
Alexia: I had found a new desire to do after 4 years of silence also due to maternity, beautiful period of my life, felt to have a gear. I began to wrote the songs from the new album that’s why this new look.

TGCom: Have you started from the disc, you have won Sanremo with the soul and rnb and now the rock. Why?
Alexia : I want to sing things' earthly 'toughest also conceptually. Only a different music could allow me to sing what they tried, even my voice has changed: it is deeper. ". I had tried in the past to speak as I wanted, but the result was only "Egoista." With the rnb is difficult to take certain compositional fields.

TGCom: "Summer" has a nostalgic, talk with your man of feelings. How did this song?
Alexia : It 'always been a season that has brought me much luck, I usually I was always immersed in the promotion or around concerts at the expense of my private life. The summer for me has always something melancholy, I have realized when I had time to myself and in August went to sea as everyone else.


TGCom: And how you spent the summers from 'free woman'?
Alexia: I have read so much, I went often to the cinema. I traveled a lot.

TGCom: What is the journey that you gave more emotions?
Alexia: In the south of France. There is a very beautiful area where there is the cult of the Black Madonna.. During the procession comes out of the Madonna and around us there are many horses and even gypsies. There is a crazy atmosphere. I was excited and also amazed.
TGCom: In your disc is a dedication to your dad, in the song "My father."?
Alexia: I was in a beach in Liguria. At some point I sensed a strong odor. It seemed the smell of his skin rubbed with oil tanning. I have come to mind many memories that I noted in my calendar Moleskine, where I wrote all the songs of my disk.
TGCom: "A moment nell'infinito" is produced by the Mara Maionchi,.? How do you meet her?
Alexia: The song is also written by Alberto Salerno, her husband. I know Mara from a life and between us there is a very close feeling, almost like mother and daughter.

TGCom: You have a daughter, 1 years old, Maria Victoria. You've already seen that has a sense of rhythm and music like you?
Alexia: I think that has this talent because I was around to sing even pregnant (laughs, editor's note)!
TGCom: You take Maria with you on tour?
Alexia: No, I leave her at home in his environment. I believe that when they are so small that it is right to remain in a familiar and relaxing.
TGCom: How Alexia lives today?
Alexia: In the past, my ambition has brought me not to ever stop. My life has suffered. Today I have my daughter, the family closely and, as always, music.. I am a dreamer, I still feel that my small art can placate fears and anxieties.

The interview was made by Andrea Conti TG Com Italia
The original version u can find HERE

NEJA @ TG Com

The interview was made by Andrea Conti from TG Com


Remember the dance hit "The Game" by Neja? She won a disc for summer 1999 and was in every stage of Festivalbar. Since then much time has passed and Neja’s (real name Agnes Cacciola) back to music with "Acousticlub", revisiting the sound of a hit 80 years and 90.
Why today is no longer “bother’ us with your songs?
Then I was in search of artistic quality. Now I’m very happy the success of Giusy." Said Neja
What happened from that distant 1999?
Neja : Many things. Moments of ups and downs, artistic choices that I have formed ...
Do u have great memories of the success of The game ?
Neja :The summer of'99 was a success for me.. These are important things happened abroad tour in Japan and I lived a certain type of musical reality. It was an important moment for my life. That song has been a qualitative leap that has not happened then.
Then your record company was universal?
Neja :Exactly
What they want from you?
Neja :They wanted to do the jump from music dance to pop music. But it was absolutely the right time. Now I am game 'chewing' jazz and soul music and dance was a lucky 'accident path'.

There is some mistake that you committed in'99 and today u regret?
Neja :Believing in the wrong people. But they are fatalistic if things went well is because today I had to take a different path.

This year the Festivalbar has not aired in recent years and is struggling to find a true hit . Why?
Neja : The dance in 90 years was taken into account, although lately I have to say is a little 'back in fashion radio. But I think that in general is returning the desire in people to sing the melody of a songs.

And what do you think the success of Giusy Ferreri, from the first five weeks in the charts of albums?
Neja :I like and I am very happy for her. I think that his song, "Non ti scordar di me ever," is absolutely good song and refined.


Its song can be considered a hit?
Neja :I think that his' case 'is the result of research quality. It can be a good sign for all artists. And I also believe that X Factor, unlike programs such as Friends or Operation Triumph, has given un'acceleration to this trend.
There is a council that want to give to the artists around the world?
Neja :Do not be easy to push the success and prepare a lot, studying .. All are able to sing but lack the basics.
Returning to the new Neja, "Acousticlub" is your third disc that was self. An ambitious goal ...
Neja : I reinterpreted in a sound the successes of famous artists. It was not easy. The comparison scares anyone, but it was one thing that I had to myself.

From the sexy version of a refined elegant dance in "Acousticlub." Choice wanted?
Neja : Absolutely yes. With my stylist, we thought that the figure of a girl who remember the pin-up, the girls from Coca Cola in ‘50s could be well to this new recording project. The new look is certainly a detachment from my past dance, it is clear not innocent.
When was the new album?
Neja : Three years ago. But the path to achieve it was very long and has only materialized in recent months.
Is there any song that you have not been able to enter?
Neja : Many from Depeche Mode to Duran Duran (I was crazy in love, guitarist Andy Taylor) but also Ciny Lauper and Madonna. Who knows maybe find space in a hypothetical "Acousticlub 2." Among the Italians would have liked to redo "The cure" Battiato.. But for now I'm thinking of a new album.
In English?
Neja : Yes.
Have you ever sung in English?
Neja : Never. I have always heard black music and it is obvious that if sing in Italian also change my vocal style.


What can aspect from the disk unpublished?
Neja : I wrote about fifty songs. I suffer when in love are particularly inspired and compose a lot ...
Now you're in love?
Neja : Yes, I'm happy and in fact write little (laughs, editor's note).

The translation made by EurodanceBlog ..
The Italian version u can read HERE