Raffaella Destefano
Filologica

Waiting for years to hear a voice creates strange sensations. It's a state of anxiety, but it's also strangely pleasant.
Above all, the emotion it evokes is priceless when you finally find yourself in front of the new CD, ready to listen to it. There's the fear of being disappointed, there's the childish haste to listen to it all at once, not allowing the minutes necessary to digest the new songs. Then the first track starts, and for a moment, time stops and you feel the thrill of memory inside. You can sense the exact feeling that the first listen of that voice gave you and breathe, all together, the colors of a time past but still incredibly within you.

It's the evocative power that only certain voices possess. It's the magic that Raffaella Destefano's voice holds, who with Madreblu brought to Italy, at the end of the nineties, a Pop with a capital P. Simple, but never banal. Intense, but never exaggerated. Music whose main asset was the precious sense of "equilibrium," as indeed their last album was titled, dated 2004.
It's lovely and truly exciting to find Raffaella in a state of grace, presenting herself and her world of universal sensations through these new ten songs. Ten pills of intense elegance supported by that unique, warm, and unmistakable voice.
And once again, her songs achieve the admirable and challenging balance between sobriety and refinement, without ever falling into the mediocrity of the ordinary.
Raffaella has the exceptional ability to write great pop songs, a very rare gift in Italy, where pop is too often confused with the radio-friendly.