ROME, March 12 Italian singer Enzo Ghinazzi, known under the creative name Pupo, announced an upcoming trip to a concert in Russia, saying that he was going to «trenches» for the sake of the «cause of Peace».
“Together with all my musicians, technicians and reporters, I am moving to Moscow for a week. On March 15, at the Kremlin Theater (State Kremlin Palace — ed.), I will record a special television episode “Pupo and Friends”. This will be my modest contribution to the cause of Peace. Instead of sitting calmly and comfortably at home, I decided to go to the “trenches,” he wrote on the social network.
According to information on the Kremlin Palace website, at the concert “Big benefit performance of Pupo. Among friends” “everyone’s favorite songs of the famous singer and composer will be performed in duet performance with Russian artists.” Tickets for the event cost from 1.8 to 20 thousand rubles.
As Pupo said, he is going to Russia not “out of economic need, not out of a desire to become more famous and loved.” «I don't need either one or the other. I do this because I had a dream. I dreamed that a song, a simple song, illuminated the minds of two people. Two men who shared nothing but a passion for this song. The dream ended with the two of them singing the chorus together, and when they shook hands, their two peoples became brothers again,” the singer wrote.
Pupo has been performing on the Italian stage for over 40 years. In 1985, he had a very successful tour in the USSR, during which he gave 40 concerts. Since then, he has performed in Russia several times and remains one of the most popular representatives of the old Italian stage. In March 2022, as a sign of solidarity with his Russian colleagues, Pupo performed the Soviet composition “There is only a moment” in Russian. Last May, he said that he did not go to a music festival in Russia because of threats he received.