Lucio Corsi

Lucio Corsi is a Tuscan singer-songwriter born in 1993, hailing from Val di Campo di Vetulonia. After various experiences with local bands and just as many explorations of Etruscan tombs, he moves to Milan.

In the sprawling city he forms a musical duo with whom he starts playing both in venues and on the street. With a good dose of watermelons, dinosaurs, butterflies and cigarettes on his mind, he decides to embark on a solo career performing his own songs in Italian. He has released two CDs, "Altalena Boy/VetuloniaDakar" (produced by Federico Dragogna, collecting the tracks from his first two EPs) and "Bestiario Musicale", both released by Picicca Dischi. In 2017 he opens for the theatrical tour of Baustelle and Brunori Sas; he plays around Italy, taking part in various music festivals, including the Festival di Musica Distesa and the Miami Festival.

On January 17th Lucio Corsi releases "Cosa faremo da grandi?", his third studio album. The album is produced by Francesco Bianconi and Antonio Cupertino.

The Tuscan singer-songwriter returns to the stage with his overflowing palette of colours, amid phantasmagorical visions and metaphorical allusions. Corsi aims straight for a singer-songwriter approach with a glam flair and aesthetic, without giving up his well-known penchant for a childlike, lively, fairy-tale-like, poetic and playful imagery. A compendium of orchestral sounds and riffs worthy of the most glam Bowie ("Freccia bianca" above all) that unwind smoothly from one verse to the next, between an embrace and the memory of a dream never realized. All of it elevated with class by the masterful support of a lineup of top-tier musicians, starting with his trusted Francesco Bianconi (mellotron, prophet, moog, backing vocals, acme siren). A veritable little orchestra that backs up our artist at every turn, sealing his old-fashioned jester's verve in the more "choral" tracks ("Trieste", "La ragazza trasparente") and stepping back when he transforms into the engaged, but not overly so, minstrel ("Senza titolo").

On April 21st 2023 Lucio Corsi's third album, "La gente che sogna" (Sugar), is released. With the 9 tracks that make up the record, written entirely by Lucio Corsi and produced by the artist together with Tommaso Ottomano, who handled part of the music, we tune into a space radio station and remember how important it is to keep on dreaming. The album, written between the Maremma and Milan, lives between utopia and mystery, reality and imagination, dancing alongside Lucio Corsi and our shadows.

The evocative title plunges us into a new dimension and reminds us how essential it is to keep dreaming; Lucio Corsi invites us to do so with him in a slow dance between singer-songwriter fare and seventies-inspired glam rock.

Spaceship and record player. Perhaps that's all there is to it, in these two words, in their most outward-looking meanings, in the rotation that turns motion into sound, melody, step.

Lucio Corsi plays with words like a child daydreaming about the little world inside the house. But he knows that, ultimately, “a nightmare is necessary to wake up with relief” (“La gente che sogna”). And that “everyone wanted to get there, to the world without flaws, where humans were the only ones missing, where statues walked to keep up with the times” (“Astronave Giradisco”). And so it all comes full circle. Because “La gente che sogna” is, at the end of the day, a beautiful chimera. A castle in the air “furnished” while fingers caress the Bowie posters hanging forever in the bedroom. And then there are sad men “inside the house, with a broken heart, in the darkness of a mine” (“Orme”).

The Tuscan storyteller now knows what he wants to be when he grows up and returns with a fourth album that's all guts and soul, while the cover features a new dancer, once again painted for him by his mother Nicoletta. The “Orme” (footprints) that the minstrel from Vetulonia contemplates verse by verse are nothing more than a wound to blow on. A metaphor conceived by imagining Ivan Graziani as a dinner guest of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso. Corsi “puts on lip gloss and paints his nails with lipstick.” Besides, “time only works in front of the mirror” (“Glam Party”).

“La gente che sogna” escapes “the clutches of evening,” while still clinging to the night of a lost time. A very distant time. The time of Mick Ronson's riffs, a guru in every chord. “Hunky Dory” is indeed a mirage: the work to strive towards.

In 2025 Lucio Corsi makes a surprise appearance at the Sanremo Festival, finishing in second place with the song “Volevo essere un duro,” which also wins the Mia Martini critics' award.

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