Jack Savoretti

The album came at an important time in Jack’s life, as his Italian father had recently passed away. Jack explains: »My father was the anchor that connected me to Italy, the link to my roots that I was in danger of losing without him. So I went back to school. I didn’t want to imitate Italian music, I wanted to make it my own, combining everything I’d learnt in almost 20 years of experience working in America, England and Italy, fusing Anglo-Saxon singer-songwriting with Italian to create something unique. I had to learn to write in Italian before I could make my album in Italian.«

Jack Savoretti enjoys a reputation as an outstanding singer-songwriter. The list of his collaborators reads like a who’s who of the music scene. They include international greats such as Bob Dylan, Kylie Minogue, Shania Twain, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Nile Rodgers, to name but a few. He is a master at channelling his musical roots, which lie both in the singer-songwriters of the 60s and 70s in California and in European chansonniers such as Charles Aznavour and Lucio Battisti. However, despite being bilingual from birth, writing in Italian was new territory for an artist who has produced and sold millions of albums for over sixteen years and released seven albums in that time, two of which have reached number one in the UK album charts – Singing To Strangers in 2019 and his most recent release Europiana in 2021.