Timeless Riches and Poors. After conquering the audience of the most recent Sanremo festival, Angela Brambati (76 years old) and Angelo Sotgiu (78 years old) are ready to face a new marathon of concerts and performances. The two artists really don’t want to be absent from the scene. Even more so now that, through social networks, they are enjoying new popularity even among the very young. Thinking about retiring? “Never. As long as we have fun, people follow us, and health assists us, go on“, Angela and Angelo informed Il Messaggero. As for the pensionFurthermore, the two artists revealed that at the moment the check owed to them would be quite meager: “Compared to what we paid, not much. A thousand euros“.
So, i Riches and Poors they have already filled their agenda with appointments: now they will go on tour again and prepare new initiatives. “We’d like un musical. We are trying to understand who to present the project to. Then sooner or later we will do it a documentary“, the two confided, also sparing a thought for their late colleague Franco Gatti, a historic member of the group who passed away in October 2022. “We always carry it in our hearts“. After a hundred concerts a year, Brambati and Sotgiu have no intention of sitting on their laurels. “Singing is a party, what takes away your strength is everything before going on stage, the travel and the waiting“, they said.
Also beloved abroad, Ricchi e Povero dream of returning to perform again in Russia, where their songs have been popular for decades. This – however, they reiterated to the Messaggero – will only happen when war it will be over. “Since the war they have invited us several times but we have never gone. We love Russians, but we will only go when there is peace and after having done a concert before a Kiev and then to Moscow“, they stated. The Italian group, interpreter of hits such as It will be because I love you, Mamma Maria and If I fall in love, has sold 22 million records in its career, created 30 albums and is still one of the most listened to on modern music platforms today streaming.
In recent days, guests at Fiorello a Long live Rai2, Angelo and Angela had become the protagonists of an unscheduled event that immediately went viral and was accompanied by the amazement of the Sicilian showman himself. “They are subversive“, the astonished presenter joked, amidst general laughter.