Patrizia Laquidara: voice
Edoardo Piccolo: synthesizer, drum machine
Daniele Santimone: electric and acoustic guitar, violao 7 cordas
Stefano Dallaporta: bass
With a new album set for release in January 2026, Patrizia Laquidara embarks on a tour that marks a new chapter in her artistic evolution. The sound embraces electronics, weaving intimate textures with deep pulses, opening sonic landscapes that engage in a fresh dialogue with the bare, daring voice of a singer who truly knows how to tell a story. Clubs and theaters become the ideal setting for this metamorphosis: places where the intimacy of listening merges with the energy of movement, where songs transform into shared experiences. This is music that vibrates in the present while safeguarding memory—an invitation to listen and let yourself be moved. With a band featuring electric and classical guitar (Daniele Santimone), bass and electronics (Stefano Dallaporta), drums and percussion (Edoardo Piccolo), the concert is a full immersion into the artist’s repertoire. She revisits and reimagines songs from her albums "Indirizzo Portoghese", "Funambola", "Il canto dell’anguana" (winner of the 2011 Targa Tenco), "C’è qui qualcosa che ti riguarda", along with new songs from her upcoming album "Florula", inspired by stories and characters from her award-winning debut novel "Ti ho vista ieri". Patrizia Laquidara—who has long mastered the art of storytelling through words and melody—now explores these tales through new sonic architectures, suspended between poetic evocation and rhythmic tension. It is an intimate and contemporary reinterpretation, balancing timbral experimentation with acoustic sensitivity, where the nuances of Italian songwriting intertwine with South American rhythms and the folklore of ethnic sounds, where pastel-hued melancholies are countered by a carnivalesque, liberating rhythmic energy.
Born in Sicily and Venetian by adoption—born, fittingly, in Catania under the sign of Scorpio—Patrizia Laquidara is one of the most elusive, multifaceted, and brilliant figures in Italian songwriting. Critics have described her as “a voice so personal it becomes unique,” “an artist capable of absolute credibility,” and “one of the most intense and lyrical voices in our so-called pop music.” A singer-songwriter, writer, and actress, she made her debut at the 13th edition of the Premio Città di Recanati (now Musicultura), where she received a triumphant welcome: she won the awards for Best Interpretation, Best Music, and the Critics’ Prize. Her first album of original songs, "Indirizzo Portoghese" (featuring a beautiful duet with Mario Venuti on "Per Causa D’Amore"), arrived in 2003 and led to an invitation to the Sanremo Festival in the ‘New Proposals’ category, where she won both the Alex Baroni Award for Best Interpretation and the Mia Martini Critics’ Award. In 2005 she was invited to perform the main theme for Giovanni Veronesi’s film "Manuale D’Amore". The result was the intensely moving Noite Luar, written with Paolo Buonvino, which earned her a nomination for the David di Donatello Awards in the category of Best Original Song. 2007 saw the release of her second album, "Funambola", produced by tropicalist and experimental music icon Arto Lindsay, together with Patrick Dillett. The album brought her to stages across Europe, Brazil, Morocco, Japan, and the United States. "Funambola" was also selected by the Premio Tenco committee as one of the five best albums of the season. In 2011 she released "Il Canto Dell’Anguana", a remarkable album exploring the musical traditions of the upper Vicenza area, which earned her the Targa Tenco for Best Dialect Album. In the years that followed, although her concert activity was nearly uninterrupted, Patrizia also found time to act in theater and film (notably in "Ritual – Una Storia Psicomagica" with Alejandro Jodorowsky and "Le Guerre Orrende"), to create and host programs for Swiss Italian Radio, to collaborate on recordings or live with international artists (including Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull), and to perform on stage with Natalino Balasso, Giuliana Musso, Mirko Artuso, and Andrea Pennacchi. In 2017 she published the poetry collection "Alphonsomangorey". The following year she was invited to the international poetry festival L’orecchio di Dionisio, alongside Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim, American poet David Gullet, and Native American writer Louise Bernice Halfe. Her fifth album, "C’è qui qualcosa che ti riguarda" (2018), produced by Alfonso Santimone, was supported by an excellent crowdfunding campaign that doubled its goal within a week. The album was previewed by the singles "Marciapiedi" and "Sopravvissuti", released exclusively on Repubblica.it. The song "Il Cigno (The Great Woman)" was among the 10 finalists for the Amnesty International Italia – Voci per la Libertà Prize. This album too was selected by the Premio Tenco committee as one of the five best records of the season. In September 2019 she received the prestigious Premio Maria Carta in Cremona. That same year she became artistic director of Il Canto della Sisilla, a successful music and theater festival in the heart of the Little Dolomites. In 2020 she appeared at various Italian festivals with the live show based on "C’è qui qualcosa che ti riguarda", a tour interrupted in March due to the COVID emergency. In summer 2021 she resumed her concert activity in Italy and abroad (including the prestigious Mawazine Festival in Morocco). She was a guest at the Bianca D’Aponte Prize in Aversa and, for the 50th anniversary celebrations of TV Koper-Capodistria, she presented "C’eravamo tanto amati", a project created by Laquidara and Alfonso Santimone, accompanied by the Slovenian National Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrik Greblo, with Tinkara Kovac as guest performer. In October 2021 she acted and sang in the theatrical production "Sirene – l’ultimo incanto" for the 74th Classical Theatre Season at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, with direction and text by Anna Zago and musical recomposition, sound dramaturgy, and sound design by Laquidara. In November 2021, for the centenary of Andrea Zanzotto, she was invited by the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies to present an original “bare-voice” interpretation of the poet’s works: Patrizia Laquidara legge Zanzotto. That same year she performed "Figure" with actress Giuliana Musso and musicians Saverio Tasca and Andrea Bressan—an homage in music and words to Zanzotto’s poetry. In summer 2022 her successful artistic collaboration with Marco Paolini began, leading to the theatrical and musical show "Boomers", which debuted with two sold-out nights at the Teatro Romano in Verona. With professor and writer Luciano Zampese, she created "Il corpo fonico in Meneghello"—a vocal performance of rhymes, nursery songs, and playful linguistic inventions. In spring 2023, her debut novel "Ti ho vista ieri" was released by Neri Pozza.
