In an Italy where you read few books, and young people read even fewer (they don’t have time, they have to concentrate on smartphones) welcome to the volume of the Boomdabash “Salentu d’amare”, which can also make its contribution to the revival of post tourism. -pandemic.
“Salentu: lu sule, lu mare, lu ientu” is a popular saying that captures the elements of this land, where in the nineties Italian reggae began to sprout, transplanted from a different but equally crystalline sea, that of the Caribbean. Also present at the creation were Boomdabash, who have since built their success and then reached the general public in 2018 with the song “Non ti dico no” together with Loredana Bertè – it is the year after the single “Mambo Salentino” together to Alessandra Amoroso, also from Salento.
The book talks a little about Salento and a little about the four Boomdabash (three from Salento and one by adoption) who arrived on the stage in Sanremo through a long apprenticeship, but without ever losing their way home. A house that they see like this: a place of sand that vibrates with music and people dancing, just like the Caribbean. The volume is a “coast to coast” journey between the Ionian and Adriatic, from Brindisi to Santa Maria di Leuca, through caves and bays, farms and straw, dancehalls and dream beaches. Without forgetting that here we eat and drink, and also good.
Boomdabash, “Salentu d’amare”, De Agostini, p. 208, euro 17.90