Society 363 / 2013
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Massimo Galfano on his tour<br />
kunst & Kultur<br />
porträt<br />
Fotos: Pressandcom<br />
»Tra cenere e parole<br />
questa vita<br />
mia, come storie<br />
gia vissute e<br />
forse mai capite,<br />
come cenere e<br />
parole sono io.<br />
«<br />
despite his hard work in the factory. That makes<br />
it easy to understand where Massimo Galfano got<br />
his passion for music from. In addition, his grandmother<br />
was a soprano singer, composer and a violinist<br />
explaining his musical roots.<br />
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Painful disease<br />
Love for his home town was so strong that his<br />
family decided to come back to Sicily in 1975, but<br />
having lost everything they had because of the<br />
earthquake, they lived in an iron shed adapted<br />
for these kinds of emergency. When he was three<br />
years old, his life changed totally: he was diagnosed<br />
with a serious illness that involved his kidneys<br />
and that made him unable to play with other<br />
kids, to attend kindergarten, to eat candies, because<br />
it stopped him from moving and also walking<br />
was becoming a problem for him; so he got to<br />
spend long time in hospital and specialised clinics,<br />
living everyday between life and death. But<br />
something inside of him still burned: it was his<br />
need to convey to people what he was suffering<br />
INFO<br />
Massimo Galfano<br />
An excellent musician and<br />
talented songwriter. Massimo<br />
was alone after the<br />
dissolution of his band and<br />
resolved years ago. Today<br />
he travels between Italy,<br />
Germany and Austria. On<br />
the side of Toto Cutugno he<br />
performed in New York in<br />
front of thousands of people<br />
and presented in May<br />
2012 his first album „Cenere<br />
e Parole“. His next destination<br />
is the world famous<br />
Song Contest in Italy „SAN<br />
REMO“.<br />
Massimo Galfano is supported<br />
by Caruso Massimiliano<br />
(Manager and General<br />
Manager for Press and Com<br />
Italy), David Baldi (Sales<br />
Director of OSM www.<br />
opensourcemanagement.it),<br />
Simona De Melas (CEO Controtempo<br />
Communication<br />
Italy), Paul Bomparola (CEO<br />
BOOKINGUMBRIA www.<br />
bookingumbria.it and CEO<br />
www.iovenditore.com) and<br />
Gaetano Andolina (Head<br />
Press and Com Southern<br />
Italy)<br />
www.massimogalfano.com<br />
www.pressandcom.it<br />
Massimo Galfano signs autographs<br />
for his fans<br />
and for this reason he began to study, so that he<br />
would able to read and write correctly even when<br />
he was only four years old. Soon, music became<br />
his sole reason of existence.<br />
In 1982, after having spent some painful years<br />
treating himself, thanks to a routine check up he<br />
discovered his illness had vanished into thin air<br />
and he was a child again who could run, play, go<br />
to school and eat those candies he had desired so<br />
long. He became a dynamo who desired to sing<br />
and cry aloud that he had overcome all obstacles.<br />
When he was thirteen he made his theatre debut,<br />
playing some very important roles in famous<br />
comedies. But his desire to start a solo career was<br />
rising, because he had only sung with his father’s<br />
band until then.<br />
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Personal success<br />
When he was nineteen, he met his future<br />
wife and mother of his three children; the bigger<br />
the responsibility, the more difficult it became<br />
to be a singer, but he was so determined<br />
that he started doing a lot of different works<br />
to get enough money for attending singing lessons:<br />
From gardening to waiting tables, factory<br />
work, farming and dishwashing. During those<br />
years he founded his first musical band “Terzo<br />
Pensiero” (“Third Thought”): He was the singer,<br />
his cousin played keyboards and the guitar, and<br />
his sister was the chorister; in this way his first<br />
artistic and economic satisfaction came, and<br />
he maintained his family thanks to his music,<br />
even if it was though.<br />
He was happy even when he had nothing,<br />
but he had his family on his side and was living<br />
his dream, that of being a singer!<br />
Some years later, after having hardly risen<br />
through the ranks, his band broke up, and he<br />
started his real solo career; he received his first<br />
music awards, with competitions and by flying<br />
all over Italy, Europe and America: finally his<br />
songs had touched people’s souls and the consciousness<br />
rose within him to be a man, a man<br />
who lives through music.<br />
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