Jack Savoretti plays LIVE and reveals why he ‘had to’ make his new album entirely in Italian

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18 May 2024, 11:16

With his new album out, Jack Savoretti opened up about how he was inspired to create it after his father passed away.

Miss Italia - which came out yesterday (17th May) - is Jack’s eighth studio album, and his first ever all-Italian-speaking album. Joining the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with webuyanycar, the singer-songwriter said: “I had to make an album entirely in Italian. It was a very strange decision. But it was something physical that I just had to do.”

He said to Chris: “I came in here just after my father passed away. And I remember I was sitting down in this chair and you said to me, ‘What's happened? You've changed,’ and I hadn't told you anything. And we had an amazing chat. That was probably the best therapy session I’ve ever had in my life.”

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Jack continued: “I was so moved and touched by the fact that you realised that something was up, and we had a wonderful chat about it. But the only way that I was able to sort of really cope with that cataclysmic event in my life, was, funnily enough, to really lean into my Italian heritage, but more than anything, to make music in Italian. It wasn't cutting it. When I was writing in English. I needed something more. 

“It just wasn't enough. Like, I was expressing everything I was feeling but it just wasn't giving me the physical feeling. And then in Italian, because I think I relate my father so much to my Italian heritage because he is the reason I have that, but it was also the music. Music and the connection my father and I had through music, especially Italian music, was incredibly strong, incredibly visceral. And for some reason, the minute I started writing Italian, it just gave it a little bit more purpose and a little bit more value from a personal level.”

Speaking about loud versus quiet moments in life, Jack said: “I'm a very loud person. So the things that really actually mess me up the most, they are the whispers. It's not the big, loud moments in my life that really changed me; that's kind of a home. I get that. It's what I do. It's how I feel all the time. So when the whisper occurs, or when I'm even whispering, that's when my life literally changes. Oh, yeah, in that exact way.

“What really surprised me though, was how keen I was to hear. And I was really lucky. And I was looking for the shouts, I was looking for the loud noises. I was looking for help. So I was looking anywhere I could. And what was familiar to me was the loud noises.”

He continued: “I think this is exactly why I ended up making an entire album. I didn't set out to make a record in Italian. It was, they were whispering to me. And even the way I was writing them, they felt like whispers, they didn't feel like declaration. They just felt incredibly physical, rather than emotional.

“It was totally feeding me. And it was something I had to keep it going.”

Regarding the reaction to his new music, Jack said: “I've been really surprised by the curiosity and the interest that people have had for this album. It's been moving.”

The new album includes collaborations with Zucchero, Miles Kane, Natalie Imbruglia and more. Aussie star Natalie joined Jack in the studio and the pair performed a stunning version of their song, Ultime Parole, live from the top of the tower. Watch their incredible performance here.

Read what Natalie told Chris about The Masked Singer here.

Miss Italia is out now. Jack’s European tour continues next month at Hampton Court Palace Festival. Head to www.jacksavoretti.com.

For more great interviews listen to The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with webuyanycar weekdays from 6:30am on Virgin Radio, or catch up on-demand here.