Essere nato negli anni 70! Quando ci penso e’ come guardare ad un passato molto remoto, un passato di cui ricordo pochissimo o quasi niente. Persa nella memoria, quell’epoca mi pare appartenere piu’ ai miei genitori che non proprio a me, quasi ospite io di anni in cui ho vissuto anche io molto ed intensamente, e che provo qui dopo tanto tempo a ricordare…per immagini.
La sagoma di mio nonno Giacomo e delle sue bretelle, i pupazzi che mi circondavano, qualche sprazzo di Via di Villa Bisignano a Barra (quartiere della periferia est di Napoli) dove abitai nei primi 3 anni e mezzo. Ed una sfumata sensazione dell’asilo, e della sua mensa al pianterreno, alla fine del Rione Bisignano. Qualche ricordo dei primissimi anni tra il 74 ed il 77.
Nel 1978 nacque Dario, mio fratello. Non mi ricordo niente di quando era molto piccolo, ma invece si ricordo che mi piaceva tanto quando inizio’ a camminare e potevo giocarci ed abbracciarlo.
Abitavamo gia’ a San Giorgio a Cremano, trasferitici da pochissimo. Mi iscrissero alla scuola elementare privata e gestita da suore la “Regina Mundi“, perche’ potevo starci fino alle 3 del pomeriggio: mamma e papa’ lavoravano entrambi. Era bella quella scuola. La mia maestra era “la signorina Tina”.
Forse tornavo dalla scuola un giorno, salivo le scale e mia nonna Giuseppina mi annuncia che mi ha iscritto al Canta Pinocchio di Canale 21! Ecco, da li iniziarono noiosissime e faticose sere di prove al Vomero per imparare una canzone che avrei dovuto cantare in Televisione. Cosa che feci poi, vincendo anche quella puntata del talent contest per bambini (questo era il Canta Pinocchio). Era il 1979 ed e’ questo forse l’ultimo forte ricordo dei miei anni 70.
To be continued…
1974
I was born on the 15th of September 1974, in Naples (Italy), from Ugo Lapelazzuli and Anna Langella. I was given the name of Giovanni.
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1975
We live in Barra, an eastern quarter of Naples
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1976
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1977
We move to San Giorgio a Cremano (a residential town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in Italy). In this period I was @ kindergarden.
1978
My brother Dario was born on the 7th of March 1978.
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1979
I take part and I conquer the first place at one Sunday edition of the ‘Il Canta Pinocchio’, a TV Talent contest show at Canale 21 (a Neapolitan TV broadcaster), singing the song ‘La Torre di Pisa’. I was sick on that day; I had to go back home before they could announce me as the winner of that show. They played the show 3 times in the coming days, we still did not own a video recorder and I could not save the event. Have tried several times in later years to contact the TV broadcaster to ask if they archived recordings, but never got an answer…
September 1979. Beginning of Elementary School “Regina Mundi”
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