Friday November 7th EMI Italy will release the new Tiziano Ferro album: called “Alla mia età”, it hits the shelves two years after “Nessuno è solo”, 100 weeks in a row in the Italian album charts and over 1.5mil copies sold worldwide.

“Alla mia età”- which will be released in 42 different countries in 4 versions, Italian, International, Spanish and Latin American – is the fourth album of his career, started in 2001 when he was only 21 years old, with the single “Xdono” and the following album “Rosso Relativo”. With the two next records, 2003’s “111” and “Nessuno è solo” released in 2006, Tiziano has reached singles and albums sales for about 5million copies worldwide.

During the past 7 years, Tiziano Ferro’s artistic path has been continuously on the rise: he’s finally seen his dream of living on his own music come true, but success hasn’t changed him.
His songs have been played all around the planet, giving him a popularity, in Spain and Central/South America most of all, maybe unexpected, yet that surely gave him the opportunity to experience different realities and the chance of widen up his mentality and his view of the world.

Thanks to his songs Tiziano has been able to visit many countries and get in touch with different uses and customs: he’s fallen in love for Mexico, where he’s lived for a few years and got a degree in Spanish simultaneous translation. He’s then moved to Spain and finally has chosen London, THE cosmopolitan and multi-cultural city of all, where he’s lived since 2005.

Tiziano’s secret is his inborn gift of writing songs with an International taste: hios songs are born in Italian, but they also ‘sound’ if translated into English, French or Spanish.

From this point of view he’s a pioneer, the first of a new generation of Italian songwriters.
He took off from Latina, Rome, now a Londoneer even if he’s never abandoned his native city which he’s strongly linked to (his family and closest friends still live there), in the past few years Tiziano has lived, learnt, and understood an enviable amount of life for a boy of his age.

So here it is: “Alla mia età”, “At my age”. The album title suggests the auto-biographical content of his new work. Tiziano summarizes in these 12 songs everything his heart went through in the last two years.

12 songs from a songwriter, a young songwriter gifted by an uncommon sensibility and an exceptional voice.

Who can’t admit that:
“spesso il mondo sbaglia – the world is often wrong”, or “in caso di pericolo si salva solo chi sa volare bene – in case of danger only who can fly will be able to save himself” , or “chi non vive lascia il segno del più grande errore – whoever doesn’t live leaves behind himself the greatest mistake” , or “messo a dura prova anche un pragmatico convinto fissa il mondo e perde molto tempo come me – if strongly tested even a convinced pragmatic stares to the world and wastes a lot of time like I do” and, again, “grazie a chi sa sempre perdonare sulla porta alla mia età – thanks to those who know how to forgive at my age”.

All quotes from his new songs, poetical pictures which tell of growing up ripened by mistakes, suffering and the self-awareness of his being a 28 year old man.

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Loved by the public, critics and colleagues, he’s also known for his collaborations so far: Laura Pausini, Mina, Fiorella Mannoia, Luca Carboni, Biagio Antonacci, Linea77 and, last but not least, with Giusy Ferreri, who he’s worked with as a producer, a new and exciting role.
Exceptional are instead the collaborations on this new album:
Ivano Fossati and Franco Battiato, who have written with him ‘Indietro’ e ‘Il tempo stesso’ respectively.

The friendship with Ivano Fossati dates back a couple of years ago, when the two met at a tv show. Since then they’ve often spoke over the phone and it was on one of these occasions that Tiziano asked Ivano if he’d liked to retouch the lyrics of a song he was then writing. So “Indietro” was born (…“l’amore va veloce e tu stai indietro… - love runs fast and you are left behind”), eventually recorded also in the English version, a duet with Kelly Rowland included in the album as a bonus track.

The encounter with Kelly Rowland happened by accident in a recording studio in London: a fatal meeting which resulted in this duet, recorded live and in one take!
As for Battiato, Tiziano has been his biggest fan forever (“I’ve listened to his music since I was 3!”). Asking him if he could write a song for this record was almost an ‘instinctive’ act, and a great joy was to hear Franco answering ‘Yes’. Unfortunately Battiato was busy in the studio recording his own album, too, and he couldn’t find the time to work on the lyrics for Tiziano. So Tiziano send some, instead, and once he got it back it had Franco singing the first verse, and
the idea for the music was completely changed!
So “Il tempo stesso” a Battiato-Ferro collaboration, was born.

Another anecdote about this song tells that some days later some more lyrics came from Manlio Sgalambro, long time partner of Franco Battiato: but the song was already recorded, and thus Tiziano keeps these unused lyrics, with loving care, locked in a drawer.

Michele Canova Iorfida, whom Tiziano has worked with since the first album, is the artistic producer and arranger of “Alla Mia Età”. Recorded between the Kaneepa studios in Milan, and the London Abbey Road studios, the album was mixed by Pino “Pinaxa” Pischetola and Michele Canova, and mastered by Antonio Baglio at the Nautilus studios.

Flavio Ferro, Tiziano 17 year old brother, plays the drums on ”Assurdo pensare”: “I promised him in case he got promoted at school. I am the one who was surprised when I heard him playing so well that we promoted his as a drummer, too!”