The Italian musicians Elisa Minelli and Sergio Lorandi announce the launch of the new single “Gracias a la Vida” from the 24th October 2024 available on all music streaming platforms. The piece is a worldwide well-known Chilean folk song published by the great singer-songwriter Violeta Sandoval Parra in 1966. The lyrics in Spanish are pure poetry.
This fourth single of the duo is dedicated to the loved ones who passed away too soon in this life, Elisa and Sergio are grateful for the incredible memories with them. This performance evokes the sounds of Latin American music with some new features such as the ukulele solo and some melodic lines on the guitar in response to singing. There are also other instruments typical of that mood: drums, shaker and clave. Moreover, it changes rhythm: the first stanza and the last one are free as a ballad for an expressive purpose, in order to emphasize the melody and the tenderness of the words, while the other stanzas are fast with the accompaniment that supports the passion and incisiveness of the words.
This fourth single of the duo was also recorded and mixed by Emilio Rossi at the Phoenix Studio in Castel Mella (Brescia, Italy).
