Singers are in no short supply, though making your voice get to the heart of an audience that will follow you anywhere—that’s something only a few can do. Jack Savoretti can. Savoretti is a singer-songwriter whose taste for music embraces all. It is collective, encompassing, and shared with his beloved fans. After seven albums and over a million copies sold, he is ready to introduce us to his latest work, Miss Italia, 12 tracks released last May and his first album in Italian. Savoretti was born of an Italian father and German mother. He is a world citizen who found his personal and artistic balance with music: scathing, persuasive songs that pierce your heart. His upcoming concert at Malibran, on December 14, sold out months ago. A precocious poet, he was encouraged to take up the guitar and put his verses into song by his mother Ingrid Hepner, a former model who once knew Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones. We met Savoretti a few days before his Venetian date, part of a tour that will take him to Genova, Bologna, Rome, Milan, and Naples.

Your first Italian album, guest starring Natalie Imbruglia and Zucchero.
My father died in 2021, and when he did, I kind of felt my own roots, my relationship with Italy, weaken and fade. It was Italian music and the songs my father listened to with me that fed the passion that made me write this album. I had been thinking about writing in Italian for quite some time now, and I was able to record a few tracks for my father before he passed. He loved them.

Intimate, ‘club’ rock that adapts easily to different occasions.
In my concerts, you will see my story and my passion to perform with my band in front of a beautiful audience. Playing is what I love doing the most, and I love hearing my lyrics backs, both in English and Italian. It means a lot to me as an artist.

Writing songs as Jack Savoretti.
I work a lot on words, even more so since I started writing in Italian. With English, I used everyday language, while in Italian, I choose words more sophisticatedly. There has to be poetry in there, somewhere. There has to be a way to play with words. There is no space, though, for triviality.

We are living through an epoch of strong feelings and strong conflicts. What role for music and musicians in our world?
We must not close up within ourselves, within our established confines. We must keep looking around ourselves, hear, listen, speak up, committing to the causes we believe in. I try to do that by supporting humanitarian associations, for example. One just cannot keep silent.

Future projects.
I am working on my next album already. It will be an English album that will certainly benefit from my experience with Miss Italia, both in content and structure.