Caparezza_ph. Albert D'Andrea (2026)
The winners of the TENCO PLATES 2026 were revealed today, a prestigious award given since 1984 to “The best albums of the year” of songwriting published during the year (i.e. made available in any way to the public from 1 June 2025 to 31 May 2026).
THE PRIZES
BEST ALBUM EVER
Orbit Orbit – CAPAREZZA
Thank you for this authoritative recognition, the icing on the cake of a long and tortuous journey, born from the desire to tell my story through my two greatest passions: comics and music. I have no expectations about the things I do, I never have. I just want them to make sense to me. Maybe this is also why compliments embarrass me and rewards always surprise me. However, I would like to share this Tenco Plaque with all the people who worked with me on the creation of ORBIT ORBIT and with anyone who has shown interest in this work. Many of them, these days, are crowding the stages of the tour, overwhelming me with their enthusiasm and I really couldn't ask for more.” – Caparezza
BEST ALBUM IN DIALECT (or minority language spoken in Italy)
Amuri lights – CARMEN CONSOLI
BEST FIRST WORK ALBUM (first long-form album by the owner, songwriter or group)
It's recording audio… – PIJI
BEST INTERPRETER ALBUM
Avincola sings Carella – AVINCOLA
BEST SINGLE SONG* (the award goes to the authors of the song)
What must be will be – EMMA NOLDE
For me and many like me the most complicated thing is not to complicate.
So I started from an image that I read in a book by Chandra Livia Candiani to write a song in which the drums are straight and the words are words that we eat, a simplicity that does not aim to amaze at all costs”, she says Emma Nolde.
«When we reach the end of the year we start making the usual lists of distant promises. We always promise ourselves impossible things, like reading forty-seven books in a year, going back to playing sports, enrolling in some courses and so on. All things that make us feel at ease with others, but not necessarily in the place where we would like to be.
This song is a letter to myself, where I encourage myself to face the hardest thing of all: accepting that I don't have a list of goals. It's strange to treat ourselves like companies doing year-end reports. The further we go, the more important it will be to stop competing with machines and instead play the game of human beings. A machine without a command doesn't work, we do. We function even without all these constraints and perhaps we are better off.
We need to accept that we cannot predict or control everything.”
BEST PROJECT ALBUM (the award goes to the producer of the project album)
80 Happy birthday Ivan (live in Teramo)
THE DATES
The 2026 TENCO AWARD will be held on 22, 23 and 24 October at the Ariston Theater in Sanremo (Imperia). The event dedicated to the most prestigious and renowned songwriting in our country, which has passed the important milestone of 50 years, will also in this edition reward one or more artists with the Tenco Prize, assigned by the Tenco Club to the careers of those who have made a significant contribution to world songwriting.
The Tenco Club will also award the Tenco Prize to the Cultural Operator and the Yorum Prize, established in collaboration with Amnesty International Italia since 2020 to give visibility to artists who, often putting their lives at risk, fight for human rights and freedom of expression all over the world.
WEB & SOCIAL
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