(//‿•) Sending a message in a bottle is so 1979, so musician and actor Sting (Police) took to the internet these days to send a message of love and his prayers to Italy. “I miss you, I know that you are separated from those you love”. Sting is currently in quarantine in England, he sends a message in Italian to Italy and plays “The Empty Chair”
Also Sting has wanted to dedicate a thought to the Italy in this complex moment. The singer has a privileged relationship with the Country, where it spends part of the year and where he has an estate that produces wine. Sting has sent a message directly to the Mayor of Figline and Incisa Valdarno, Julia Millers, who in recent days had written to ask him to send a message of hope and closeness of the entire community. And the singer has seized the opportunity, recording also a version in sound of “The Empty Chair”, a song that, as he wrote, “speaks of the loved ones that we miss, for those who can not return home, so leave at your table an empty chair to remember”
The video of Sting for Italy
“Hi to all, my Italian friends. In England, for now free from the virus but, like you, I’m home to keep my family and my friends safe, ” says the singer in a video, while he holds ready his guitar. I know how much Italy has suffered and continues to suffer. I watch the news every day, and I realize that what has happened in Italy now it’s happening all over the world. I miss you all”. The singer speaks of Italy as his favourite country”: “I miss my beautiful house in Tuscany. I am sure that in this terrible time many of you have been separated from those they love. This song speaks of the loved ones that we miss, for those who can not return home, so leave at your table an empty chair to remember”.
“So quanto l’Italia ha sofferto e continui a soffrire. Mi mancate tutti, mi manca il mio Paese preferito e la mia bella casa in Toscana”
“Sono sicuro che in questo momento terribile molti di voi sono separati da quelli che amano: questa canzone parla delle persone care che ci mancano, di chi non può tornare a casa e così lasci al tuo tavolo una sedia vuota per ricordarlo”
The request of the tuscan Town
“From England comes this beautiful message Sting – you read on the page Facebook of the Municipality of Figline and Incisa Valdarno. We have contacted in the past few days, and ask him to share with us and with the whole community a message of hope and closeness in this moment, so critical at the international level. And he responded to the call, by sending us this video. Thank you for these words and for your music, that holds us together…even at a distance!”.
Messaggio Sting Coronavirus / Video messaggio alla Città di Figline e Incisa Valdarno da parte di Sting per l’emergenza Coronavirus / Comune Figline e Incisa Valdarno
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