One of the most important singer-songwriters in Italian music returns to showcase his rich and memorable repertoire : Friday the 14th and Saturday the 15th will be a double date for the great Ron at the Teatro Massimo in Cagliari, which today presents his new show "Al Centro giusto della Musica", a self-referential take on the (almost) homonymous 1981 song . The artist will retrace his long career, featuring historic hits and new gems, with over twenty songs on the lineup, starting at 9 pm on both evenings.
It's difficult to summarise the artistic career of Rosalino Cellamare (Ron's real name), spanning nearly six decades and studded with significant achievements. Born in 1953 to Apulian parents who had emigrated to the Pavia area, he made his debut at just sixteen at the 1970 Sanremo Music Festival, singing "Pa' diglielo a ma'" with Nada, and a few months later won the Caravella dei Successi with "Fino a morire". But the turning point came the following year, when he fell under the wing of Lucio Dalla, who wrote a few songs for him ("Il gigante e la bambina") but also let the young man write his own ("Piazza Grande", which he took to Sanremo 1972 with an anxious Ron on guitar).
While Rosalino was still building solid foundations for the years to come during the 1970s, his true success came in the 1980s, with the timeless albums "Una città per cantare," "Al centro della musica," and "Guarda chi si vede," and the celebrated singles "Hai capito o no?" and "Joe Temerario." It was a time of artistic prosperity for Ron, who continued to write for other great Italian voices (Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Gianni Morandi, Anna Oxa) and willingly collaborated with emerging artists, such as the then-unknown Luca Carboni and Biagio Antonacci: a journey that finally culminated with first place at Sanremo 1996, for "Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni," a duet with Tosca.
Between charitable and entrepreneurial ventures in the 2000s and 2010s, as Ron approached his fiftieth anniversary, he returned to devote himself entirely to art . In 2022, he released "Sono un figlio," a previously unreleased self-portrait of the artist, with an intimate and generational poetics, incorporating singer-songwriter, jazz, and pop influences. This return was also recognized by the prestigious Tenco Prize, which the following year awarded Ron the Lifetime Achievement Award and invited him to the annual ceremony, where he reinterpreted Tenco's "Lontano Lontano." A success story that will be further enhanced by the musicians supporting Ron on Friday and Saturday evenings in Cagliari: Giuseppe Tassoni (keyboards), Roberto Di Virgilio (guitars), Stefania Tasca (vocals and percussion), and Pierpaolo Giandomenico (bass).
