JULY 27
Biography
La Rappresentante di Lista (LRDL) is a project born in 2011 from the meeting between the singer Veronica Lucchesi and multi-instrumentalist Dario Mangiaracina.
The two had met in Milan the year before during the preparation of a theatrical performance and then moved to Palermo to join a group of artists who, under the impetus of the Teatro Valle protest in Rome, had reopened the Teatro Garibaldi. During the occupation, Dario and Veronica met various exponents of the Sicilian music scene, including Roberto Cammarata, a guitarist and producer from Palermo. Thanks also to the collaboration with these musicians, LRDL's first album was born and has been published in 2014 by the Bolognese label Garrincha Dischi.
The duo's first tour started in Palermo and (Per la) Via di Casa was nominated for the Targhe Tenco as best debut album.
Veronica and Dario began writing their second album Bu Bu Sad during this first tour, structuring what would become their stylistic signature: a strongly visionary writing style and a synthesis of songwriting and electronic sounds. They borrowed the term "queer" (weird, beyond genre, transversal) from the debates on sexual identity, defining themselves as a "queer pop band". Giorgio Canali, some time later, will define them as "oblique".
Since spring 2015, trumpeter Enrico Lupi and percussionist Marta Cannuscio have joined the group. In September, Veronica was nominated best female voice of the indie scene by MEI and the band was among the 60 finalists of Sanremo Giovani with the single Apriti Cielo!
In December of the same year, Bu Bu Sad was released (nominated for the Targhe Tenco as best album of the year) and Veronica's sister Erika Lucchesi joined the band. The tour of the second album brought the five musicians to perform all over Italy with great success from the public and critics. Piergiorgio Pardo in Blow Up defines LRDL as "a band with enormous potential, intent only on living up to its full potential in this hypothesis folk/jazz/soul/funky metropolitan and at the same time ancestral pop, on which Veronica Lucchesi's vocals, a true divine gift, stand out like a poetess narrator in the public square".
In March 2017 Bu Bu Sad Live was released, recorded during the club tour. In August of the same year the band was a guest at the Sziget Festival and the Musicultura festival. In the summer of the same year LRDL was one of the bands called to rearrange one of the songs from Cristina Donà's Tregua for the re-edition of the album that will be released in September 2017.
After a tour of more than 200 dates, in January 2018, LRDL brings on stage Bu Bu Suite: a rewriting for chamber music ensemble of the band's repertoire in collaboration with M° composer Francesco Leineri. With the end of the tour, first in Morocco and then in Tuscany, Veronica and Dario start to define the writing of the new songs. The production of the third album began in the Fat Sounds studio in Palermo in collaboration with the historic producer Roberto Cammarata and with the support of the band, which continued to expand with the addition of drummer Roberto Calabrese. It was the meeting with producer Fabio Gargiulo that brought the band back to Milan. Here the writing and creation of Go Go Diva, the band's third studio album, was defined. The album was released on the 14th of December 2018 by Woodworm.
The album Go Go Diva was followed by a long tour that sold out numerous times in the main clubs all over the peninsula and captivated the audience of the major summer festivals, confirming the band as one of the most transversal and interesting realities of the contemporary music scene.
In May 2019, LRDL also performed on the stage of the Concertone del Primo Maggio in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome.
In 2019, the Go Go Diva tour received the award for Best Live from Keepon, both in the club and summer versions. The award is given by adding up the votes of promoters from all over Italy who are members of the Keepon circuit.
In January 2020 the song Questo corpo, taken from the album Go Go Diva, was included in the soundtrack of the TV series "The New Pope", created and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, sequel to the very successful "The Young Pope", also by the Oscar-winning director.
In February 2020 LRDL appears on the stage of the Teatro Ariston of Sanremo alongside Rancore and Dardust, in the evening of duets, performing the song "Luce" by Elisa.
The music of Go Go Diva was included in the soundtrack of the series Il Cacciatore 2, in a rearranged form by the band itself. Veronica Lucchesi also starred in the same series, playing an important role. The other members of the band also took part in the filming, playing members of Maria's band, Veronica Lucchesi's role.
Anticipated by the single Alieno and Amare, presented at Sanremo 71, the new album, My Mamma, is released on the 5th of March 2021, contaminated by the creativity of what begins to take the form of a real artistic collective. Success was immediate: My Mamma debuted at number one in the FIMI vinyl sales chart and at number five in the album chart. Amare, on the other hand, was certified Platinum, entering the podium of the most played songs on Italian radios. This is a new step for LRDL, who combines her innate vocation for the laboratory with an increasingly conscious and mature exploration of themes, writing and production. The album has an enviable vitality, the same that this summer LRDL has finally brought back to the stages all over Italy with My Mamma - Summer Tour 2021 and the same that can be found in the new single, with the emblematic title VITA.