Jovanotti: “My father led me to see the airplanes and he said to me” It’s not all here, you can go “. Today I still fly. With my body I quarrel, but I feel it as never before”

Jovanotti’s human body It is pure life. Lorenzo Cherubini is back with an album (The human body vol 1), very beautiful, and full of care. Because he is one who falls a hundred times and gets up Centouno. There is pain, there are trauma, there are the airplanes who looked at as a child and the chimpanzees, there is the family and we are all of us. Jovanotti invites us to use the senses, to dance, to let go. The message is simple: “I’m so happy to be alive.”

Did he understand anything more than his body after the accident?
«Understanding is not the right verb, it is a verb that does not use much. I don’t understand, I feel and continue to do it. Today probably with more awareness. This feeling at some point has also become pain. In life, as Francesco De Gregori sings, there is nothing to understand. There is only to live, to stay in it. Do we really care to know what truth is? Maybe that’s not the point. The point is to feel, and the human body is first of all a tool to hear ».

What relationship do you now have with your body?
«Always quarrel, I feel more. He screams, he makes himself heard, and I realize that there is one thing that had never happened. I lived the body but I was not aware that it existed. This awareness probably increases over time and, after all, an accident is a sudden acceleration of time ».

In one of his new songs, The chimpanzeesings “I am a chimpanzee, and it’s not bad”
«It is a desire, let’s say, it is as if inside me sometimes there was the feeling that the right direction in which to go would be to become a chimpanzee, somehow giving space to this animal that we bring inside. A little throughout the album there is this atmosphere here, there is this desire for instinct, this desire to listen to its senses. Feeling the senses is something that I have refined over the years traveling by bicycle around the world ».

What child was the one who looked at the airplanes in Fiumicino with his father?
«Well, I was that child there and a little are still that child there. The airplane It is a song that I can’t even listen to because it causes me such a strong emotion and so precise that I can’t stay there for a long time. Because it is my childhood, because many protagonists of that song are no longer there and therefore when listening are right there, but they are always that child who is surprised, who wants to leave. It was just a gift that my dad made us, that is, to show me the world. He took me there to see the airplanes and he said to me “it’s not all here, you can go” every now and then I widen my arms and it means that I am flying, it is an instinctive gesture ».

He also sings “if I fall a hundred times I get up Centouno”.
“In the end, however, I say” give me a hand “. It is necessarily in some cases you never get up alone ».

He wrote a beautiful dedication for this album.
“I must say that I thought about it for a long time and I said” I want to do the dedication as if it were the last thing I do in life “. I really thought so a little. I said “If I had to leave something and tomorrow I don’t exist anymore, this is what I have to say to the world”. For me, this is this: to my girls, to my people, and to the kindness of strangers who are very important and that in recent months has been very important for me ».