From Persia with Tears of Love, from Berlin a Kommissar with Rhythm: Alles ist Klar when a Soloist Croons U2 under Vivid Italian Blue
An acoustic guitarist with a just-right raspy voice woos Milanese and company through apt versions on a band that’s got cross-generation pull.
Lorenzo Giannangeli hitting a high note in a rendition of U2’s “With or Without You,” sung to a multicultural crowd today in Milan. An acoustic guitar sets his music apart, along with a distinctive voice (See video of song below).
The Persian woman can’t hold it in any longer, crying a river in the face of Milan’s Duomo when a live song on a U2 heartbreaker is a note too much to take.
“I miss my family,” says Shiva, a graduate student at the University Milan, by way of Iran, wiping at tears cascading over mascara. Enrolled in the state university’s pharmaceutical biology program, she initially gravitated to the bearded guitarist’s riffs last fall after dropping by to see Duomo, the city cathedral.
Then came today.
“That time I was crying and now I’m crying again,” says the 26-year-old, from the north Iran city of Babalo, alternating between smiles and nostalgia tied to her homeland. She takes off her sunglasses to dab a droplet.
Lorenzo Giannangeli has that effect on the cosmopolitan curious. Blessed with a just-right gravelly voice, he tastefully tweaks “With or Without You,” a 1987 song belonging to U2’s “Joshua Tree” album, which cemented the Irish Bono-led band to worldwide stardom.
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