Micah P. Hinson on Rai's Via dei Matti: watch his performance with Stefano Bollani

It's not a very common sight to see a singer-songwriter who's become an icon of the international indie scene, like Micah P. Hinson, performing on Italian state TV. Yet it really happened, during the latest episode of "Via dei Matti n°0", the daily music show on Rai 3, in which the songwriter, born in Memphis but raised in Texas, accompanied on piano by Stefano Bollani, performed "Think Of Me", a track from the album "The Tomorrow Man", a work that marks a new stylistic turn for Hinson. Later in the broadcast, hosted by Bollani and Valentina Cenni, the American singer-songwriter also performed the traditional folk song "500 Miles".

Watch his performance on "Via dei Matti n°0" below.

Nato a Mephis ma cresciuto in Texas, #MicahpHinson è stato nostro ospite a #ViaDeiMattiN0, accompagnato da @stefano_bollani ci suona "Think of me", brano contenuto nell'album "The tomorrow man", un disco che rappresenta una svolta stilista per lui.

Rivedi la puntata su #RaiPlay! pic.twitter.com/zTOUuefEqj

— Rai3 (@RaiTre) February 10, 2026

A voice that seems to come from the depths of time. A biography with the aura of a poète maudit. Beauty as both ideal and obsession. Micah P. Hinson has taken up the legacy of Nineties American songwriting, aiming squarely for the breadth of the classics. A trajectory suspended between torment and a yearning for peace, chasing his own muse with an ever-shifting cast of collaborators.

With "Tomorrow Man", something changes radically. The title alone reveals the desire to break free from his own emotional inheritance: the idea that tomorrow is finally a livable place, no longer a threat. A pull toward rebirth that Hinson had timidly hinted at on the previous "I Lie To You" (2022), but which here takes over completely and becomes the defining trait of the whole record.

A renunciation of the past and the resulting inner liberation also stem from the strong bond Micah now shares with his (Italian) band, made up of Alessandro "Asso" Stefana (guitars, piano, banjo, keyboards, bass) and Zeno De Rossi (drums, percussion), described at the recent Milan show as the family he chose for himself, as opposed to the one fate gave him.

The album is scattered with striking melodies, which Micah writes (as ever) with astonishing ease. His crooner's voice, more central than ever, conveys a definitive break with what came before: a rebirth. With "Tomorrow Man", Micah P. Hinson finally seems to find a space of calm: not a denial of pain, but the conscious choice to move beyond it. It's the record of a man who, for the first time, truly decides to belong to tomorrow.

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