In 1984 Francesco is 6 years old. The family runs a small bar in Porto Torres, which no longer exists, behind some public housing , located in front of a former police station, where an archive has been transferred for years. Francesco supports Milan, the team of his life. Van Basten and Gullit would be hired shortly, but neither Francesco nor anyone could know this. The child often sits in the doorway of the bar. To do what? To sing. But above all Claudio Villa sings and Sardinian music. He is so in tune and full of grace that people stop and look at him.
Francesco stops shy at times, but if spurred to loosen his modesty he sings even more. Also on request. That child has a golden uvula and heart notes. The good Lord has decided to put a large dose of talent on him. And he replies with an enchanted voice that caresses hearts. In two large black eyes, a deep gaze, with a soul that knows no winter.
Sometimes little Francesco lives alone in his world. To fantasize its melodies. Dream of applause and glory. But he doesn't know how to do it. He's just a child. Not even a teenager begins to travel the villages of Sardinia. Sing in Sardinian. Often above the semi-trailers of trucks festively decorated with large rolled palm trees. It's better to overlook the sound system. But in a short time Francesco becomes a celebrity in the field. Already one of the best. Who competes with those who have thirty more years of experience on stage.
But Francesco has the enthusiasm of someone who wants to succeed and the humility of adults. He lives in a still wild land, where a lot of luck is also needed to emerge. That fortune that Francesco is still denied. In the meantime, the boy plays football and is also good with the ball. Quick, agile and powerful, it carves out a good space. In 2004 the first occasion, while he continues to perform in the squares as a Sardinian cantadore: his debut as a figure in the "Trovatore" at the Teatro Verdi in Sassari, in the Luigi Canepa choir, of which he has been a member for some time.
Then studies at the Conservatory . The first solo appearances in theaters. His voice is not going unnoticed. In 2007 a big curtain opens. Thousands of well-dressed people in the stalls and boxes. Francesco plays the role of Rodolfo and sings like never before. The world is his. At the end of the work, the people stand up and clap their hands. Sincerely. His eyes sparkle, in one of the temples of world opera. For that young man the gates of heaven are open and he touches the moon. And it wouldn't be the first. The little one who sang in the doorway and who played Rodolfo in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Luisa Miller at the Teatro Regio in Parma on 7 October 2007 is Francesco Demuro, 45, from Porto Torres. An opera singer, he has become one of the greatest tenors in the world. One of the most eminent personalities of this glorious Sardinian land, which Francesco proudly exports to every part of the globe.
