Actress, singer-songwriter, new but already recognizable voice. Lea Gavino debuts in music with Flowery World and Children two songs that tell of love in different forms – what ends and what remains – intertwining fragility, awareness and the desire to find each other again.
After making herself known on the screen with Skam Italia and several films, today Lea chooses music as a personal space, a world in which she can finally be herself.
THE INTERVIEW
Lea, your first two singles “Mondo fioreto” and “Figli” arrive together, almost like two chapters of the same emotional diary. What connection is there between them?
That's right, I feel them as two parts of a single journey, two stages that tell different moments of my life but with the same intensity. Flowery world it talks about an unfinished love, about something that didn't go as I hoped but which left me with a great sweetness and a new awareness. Children, instead, it was born from a family love, that for my brother: it is an intimate song, full of affection, which tells of an authentic bond, made of protection, complicity and nostalgia.
Both songs, although moving in different directions, are linked by a single feeling: the search for oneself through relationships.For me love is always a way to get to know myself better, to understand who I am and what I carry inside.
“Mondo fioreto” has a melancholic delicacy but also a luminous strength. How did this song come about?
“Mondo fioreto” is a song I wrote a few months ago, inspired by an unfinished love. A story that ended simply because we were never really able to enter each other's world. I also wanted to translate this feeling of suspension into music: the first two chords of the piece evoke precisely that waiting, that time that expands when something is left halfway.
Despite everything, I don't hold a grudge. And in the song I tell it: I wish all the best that life can offer that love, even if our journey does not continue together.
Because I finally realized that we don't necessarily need someone else to feel good: we can do it alone. “Mondo fioreto” is therefore also a hymn to awareness, to self-love, to the ability to put oneself at the center of one's life.”
In “Sons”, however, you enter a more familiar, warmer dimension. You talk about your relationship with your brother with great tenderness
Figli” is a more recent song, born from the desire to talk about the special relationship with my brother, especially in the years of adolescence, those in which we exchange secrets and confidences. The bond with him is one of the most precious gifts that life has given me. As an older sister I have always felt the desire to be there, to protect him; yet, at times, I have felt guilty for the absences or for not having immediately understood that something was wrong. We share the same passion for music: he is a concentration of energy, a presence that illuminates everything.
A day without him is like a day without music, and without music it's as if I myself stopped existing.”
The video for “Mondo fioreto” is shot in black and white and tells a dialogue between two versions of yourself. It is an elegant, intimate and very cinematic choice. How was it born?
The video is a fundamental part of the story, almost an extension of the song. Black and white seemed like the most natural choice to me: I wanted to restore that feeling of suspension and purity, something timeless.
In the video there are two “Leas” who observe and talk to each other in the mirror – one more fragile, the other more aware – but in reality they are the same person trying to reconcile with themselves. I like to think that music and images meet there, in that gaze.
It is a very personal work, with cinematographic references that certainly also derive from my training as an actress.
You come from the world of cinema. What changes in the transition from the set to the recording studio?
It changes everything. Cinema and music are two languages that I love, but which I experience in a completely different way. When I act, I step into someone else's shoes, I play lives and stories that are not mine. It's a transformation game. With music, however, I can't hide: every word I sing is mine, every emotion comes from within.
It's scarier, but also truer.
Right now I'm dedicating a lot of energy to music, because I feel like it's the place where I can really express myself.But I don't rule out returning to the set at all, on the contrary: if a project came along that inspired me, I would gladly do it.
I love both worlds, only now music has taken center stage.
Are you already working on new songs?
Yes, I'm writing a lot. I have several ideas in the works and can't wait to get back into the studio to record them. It's a very creative moment for me: I'm experimenting, looking for new sounds, new words, and little by little I'm building what will be my musical world. I don't want to rush, but I want every song to represent me one hundred percent.
Have you already had the opportunity to perform live? How did you feel?
Yes, a few days ago I played in front of an audience for the first time, and it was a huge emotion. I was a little scared, but as soon as I started singing everything became natural, as if I was talking to people who already knew me. I really like that feeling of sharing that is created live, that vibration that passes through you. It's a dimension that I hope to experience more soon, perhaps taking my songs around, telling them with my voice and body.
Your songs have elegant and very visual writing. Are there any artists that you feel are points of reference?
Yes, definitely Joni Mitchell. His music has always accompanied me. I love his ability to combine intensity and grace, to describe complex emotions with simplicity, without ever being banal. That's what I'm looking for too: to give quality, elegance and sincerity to my music. I would like those who listen to me to feel the same authenticity that I feel when I write it.
THE VIDEO
ABOUT LEA
Lea Gavino is an Italian actress and singer-songwriter, born in Rome on 14 January 1999. Since she was a child she has cultivated a strong passion for the world of art: she approached music by starting to study the piano and discovered her love for cinema thanks to her father, with whom she shared the weekly ritual of “cinema Friday”, an evening in which she watched great films together, fueling her curiosity and her desire to tell stories.
After high school, she enrolled in the faculty of Psychology and during her university studies she was called for an audition which marked the beginning of her acting career. In 2018 he undertook a training course at the Jenny Tamburini Acting School, and then graduated in 2022 from the Gian Maria Volonté School of Cinematographic Arts.
She made her debut in 2019 in I remember Piazza Fontana, directed by Francesco Miccichè and, in the same year, she appeared in the series Oltre la threshold, broadcast on Canale 5. In 2022 she played a symbolic character of twentieth-century feminism such as Artemisia Gentileschi in the film L'Ombra di Caravaggio by Michele Placido, alongside internationally renowned performers such as Louis Garrel. The film won 3 Nastri d'Argento and 2 David di Donatello. The real success always comes in 2022, when he becomes the protagonist of the fifth season of Skam Italia.
The role earned her the Next Generation Award as “Revelation Actress”, awarded by Man in Town during the 80th Venice International Film Festival. He then returns in the sixth season of the series, confirming himself as one of the most promising faces of his generation.
In 2023 he starred in A Black Story, directed by Leonardo D'Agostini, and took part in the second season of the international series SAS: Rogue Heroes, directed by Stephen Woolfenden.
In 2024 he was in the cast of the Rai series I casi dell'Avvocato Guerrieri, alongside Alessandro Gassmann, and in the film Dieci Minuti, directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi.
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