Revealed the face of the woman who inspired Vasco Rossi's "Silvia"
It is always nice to put a face to songs, especially if they are masterpieces that have made the history of Italian music and Vasco Rossi's “Silvia” can rightfully be placed in this category. Yesterday, the rocker from Zocca wanted to celebrate the 43 years of "Jenny" and "Silvia", the singles contained in his first single released exactly on June 15, 1977, posting on Instagram the photo of Silvia who, unwittingly , inspired him in his composition.
Il blasco: an impressionist artist
A fifteen-year-old girl with delicate features and a dreamy gaze, enraptured by "a thousand fantasies that never let her go away", the same one that Blasco managed to convey through the words of his song, with "a little bit impressionist ”, as he himself defines it.
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When Silvia realizes she is the protagonist of this song
It was the first time that Vasco performed bringing "Silvia" on stage. Before starting to sing, the man said he was inspired by a girl who had recently moved from Zocca to Modena. It didn't take long before the real Silvia, who was sitting among the spectators at that moment, realized that she was the girl the singer was talking about. So, at the end of the exhibition, he decided to ask for confirmation from the person concerned.
“When I realized he was inspired by me, I was incredulous. I went to him and asked him: 'Vasco, am I really the Silvia of the song?'. And he confirmed me and said: 'Yes, yes, I had thought of you'. He didn't exactly tell me why but over time I understood it. I don't know how, but he had caught an aspect of my character ”, the woman, who today teaches philosophy in a high school in Modena, will recount years later in an interview.
A delightful portrait of adolescence
At the time Vasco and his muse were neighbors. Even though he only knew himself in passing, the artist's sensitivity had allowed him to create a "delightful portrait", which represented "a delicate blossoming, where hormones become flowers". In fact, Silvia is caught in the most delicate phase, that of transition from childhood to adulthood, when she takes off the clothes of a child and puts on those of a woman.
And the success of this song is perhaps all here: in having immortalized an existential condition in which we can recognize many young women struggling with a changing body and the desire to grow faster than necessary. As happens to Silvia who, in front of the mirror, goes in search of a breast that "is still small, but will grow", while "dirtying" her innocent face with that make-up that will make her mother grumble.
Silvia is all of us, including Vasco.
And it matters little if the Silvia of reality is brunette or blonde, tall or short, because, after all, we have all been Silvia in our lives and that is why we like the song so much even years after its publication. All of us, including Vasco. The singer admits, in fact, that "if I had been a girl, at that age I would have behaved like her. I tell these things because I have an important female part, I grew up among the women of the family, my mother and aunts: L'Espedita, Iliana, Rosanna and Ivana ".
