is a "new Italian" and can with his music to give voice to a mix of influences ancient and modern. The story of Sheba Anglana worth telling, because it is an extraordinary blend of history, destiny, identity, who meet with the memory of our country They come and magically transformed in music. Founded by an Italian ex-army officer father and a mother raised in Ethiopia Somalia , Saba lives from the age of five years in Italy. She graduated in Art History at ' University "La Sapienza" Roma of , he worked on television reciting it Team and cinema as voice actress in the film Totò Sapore . The music, however, was his destiny: here it is then, in 2006 , sign their first album, Jidka , sung in Somali and released in 60 countries, followed by the second year Biyo cd, which came early in the first twenty positions of World Music Charts Europe . Saba has appeared as an emerging international voice in important collections of African singers, with the likes of Sally Niolo and Miriam Makeba . Strongly committed to defending the environmental cause, in Italy has taken his musical contribution by participating in the great concert The Earth Day 2008, alongside Cesaria Evora and Vinicio Capossela .
Saba after Jidka have published a few months your second album Biyo , written and sung in four languages \u200b\u200b(Amharic, Ethiopian, Italian and English). The strong theme is water: how did the idea for this album?
is a very topical issue in Italy. I lived with participation in all events related to the referendum, having a precise position on the unfortunate task of privatizing water. Then, once down in Ethiopia, has grown even more awareness, contact with people in villages far from the sources, wells. The search of the precious element, its absence can affect an entire people. All this is offered as further plotline, as rich a metaphor for life, love, hope, spirituality. Water is a powerful symbol, which in many contexts requires reflection and inspires poetry.
You Ethiopian mother, Italian father, you were born in Mogadishu, but you living in Italy since he was five years: how to live it your identity, plural, across cultures?
The troubled sense of belonging is the most creatively interesting side of this rich tangle. Because he always encouraged me in some research: I have never sat on my origins, I've never been a warm blanket or shelter "safe" in the sense of the word lazy. The identity is that I live in constant motion, forces me to consider myself above all a human being and do the same with my neighbor. A great lesson in humility, because non si brandisce una presunta identità come una spada con cui difendere le proprie tradizioni, la propria discendenza. I valori vanno scoperti e promossi, non “difesi”.
Qual è il rapporto che hai conservato con la tua terra d’origine?
Un rapporto critico e romantico. La terra delle origini è un luogo mitico per chiunque. Se poi questo exotic location is the equator, the appeal is complete. But they are also aware of the serious problems affecting those areas of the world. Especially in recent years I have been pushing my discovery is emotionally and cognitively. Drawing a thousand times the party that brought me into the world, the fourth kilometers of Mogadishu, in my parents' house that sits right on the street where he died Ilaria Alpi.
In recent years, how has it changed the relationship between Italians and immigrants?
on the bus yesterday I was talking with a woman from Cameroon, who shook his head and said: "Italy for me is just a place of passage: with stand this idea that I feel the eyes on me. " I would not say more.
What, in your opinion, the steps needed to reach to achieve a genuine integration process between migrants and natives?
La parola “integrazione” riscuote tutta la mia antipatia. Implica un percorso a senso unico. Parlerei di interazione e scambio, piuttosto. Le leggi e la burocrazia sono un conto, il viver sociale, i sentimenti, le parole, gli sguardi devono diventare reciproci nella curiosità di scoprire l’altro. In un Paese come l’Italia in cui gli immigrati sono quelli che ottimisticamente fanno più figli e conoscono le strade, sanno dare indicazioni, hanno un rapporto con il territorio in cui vivono, mangiano all’aperto autogestendo luoghi social gathering, organizing the community by spreading a network of aggregation, well ... in this place I would say that the Italians are the aliens, the distant, the lost.