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Tammurriata Nera - Peppe Barra
Ladies and gentlemen, Peppe Barra!
First with his mother Concetta and then alone, Peppe Barra has brought Naples back to the center of the Mediterranean; a capital of all the Souths of the world. A splendid stage animal, he has always given his best on stage.
His Naples is the porous city: Greek and Arab, Viking and Spanish, African, French and German, American... a mix of races, a crossroads of goods and flavors, a servant to all and a slave to none, a splendid capital and a degraded periphery; all the Napoles are embodied in the Art of Peppe Barra.
They will call them Music of the World; Music of all the Souths.
"Tammuriata Nera" is one of the most - rightly so - famous songs from this repertoire; a small treatise on the Neapolitan soul, on the extraordinary richness of our being bastards.
The "canonical" version is that of the NCCP (with whom Barra has, of course, long and fruitfully collaborated), but Barra's version is no less.