O Mio Babbino Caro [Oh My Dear Papa] was originally performed by Florence Easton in 1918 during the premiere of the Puccini opera Gianni Schicchi and has since been performed and recorded by many artists. It is a daughter’s plea to her father to let her marry the man she loves or she will
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I Miei Giorni [My Days] was first released on the 2019 album Diario Di Un Ultimo [Diary Of The Last One]. It about time passing quickly as we live our lives on small streets while thinking big. It is another great, high energy track in Folkstone’s unique mix of heavy metal and folk music
Vivo Persa [Life Is Lost] is the debut single from Aurora. It is a love song to someone that you find you are a part of, but sometimes they leave and searching for them is part of the mystery of the attraction. It is an intriguing pop song with a strong backbeat rhythm, interesting
Elicriso (C’era un pazzo) [Helichrysum (There was a fool)] was originally released on the 2019 album Diario di un ultimo [Diary of a Last]. It is about stripping away the superficial layers of a persons life, that cause us to label them as different, to see that deep down we are all essentially the
Nella Fantasia [In My Fantasy] was originally recorded by Sarah Brightman on her 1998 album Eden, though the music was originally used in the 1986 film The Mission, where it was called Gabriel’s Oboe. It tells of a Fantasy where the world is a better place and everyone is free. This is a truly
Cinema Paradiso was originally released by Ennio Morricone on the soundtrack for the 1988 movie Cinema Paradiso. It is the main love theme in the movie and explains the singers love by saying that if you were in the singer’s eyes, heart, and soul then you would know that it is a true love.
Scintilla [Spark] is the latest video from Folkstone. It is about standing up for what is right and not putting your integrity up for sale. The song is dedicated to Ayse Deniz Karacagil, a Turkish woman known as the Girl with the Red Scarf and died fighting for the International Freedom Battalion against ISIS,
Grande Amore [Great Love] was originally performed by Il Volo at the Sanremo Music Festival 2015 and then represented Italy at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). It is an operatic love song to the one great love that means the world. This is the performance that Gislaine gave as part of the Ohloq
Occidentali’s Karma [Westerners’ Karma] was originally released by Francesco Gabbani on his 2017 album Magellano, as a single, it also won the Sanremo Music Festival 2017 and will represent Italy at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). It is about cultural appropriation, where people of one culture, usually Westeners, take parts of other people’s
Il Tempo Se Ne Va [The Time Goes] was originally released by Adriano Celentano on his 1980 album Un Po’ Artista Un Po’ No [A Little Artist, A Little Not] and as a single. It is about a father singing to his daughter and chronicling her growing from a young girl to a