1 What did you study?

I graduated in Philosophy, but I also wanted to do astrophysics, the sky deserves to be known, I think life is less hard up there.

2 When you were little what did you think you were growing up? Have music and dance always played a major role in your life?

My father tells me that I often said I wanted to become a doctor, since I was a child I have always felt a sense of challenge towards death, I dreamed of taking away its power and making it a stage in life, not its end.

But then the music prevailed, on the other hand, as the Greeks said: art makes eternal and transcends temporality.

My father is also a musician, my mother has always written songs and when I was little they took me with them to hear them play in clubs. My life has always had a soundtrack, and music has always called me, I just decided to really listen to it only around the age of 12 when I wrote my first song. Dance too has always had a central role, I have always danced everything, my joy and my pains, with dance I free the body and with music the mind, both of which allow me to sublimate my earthly experiences in magic, or at least for me this is an inexplicable magic.

3 It seems that you are making your dream come true, are you satisfied or do you keep dreaming?

One thing does not exclude the other, so yes to both.

However, I do not believe that human beings are destined for “satisfaction”, I believe that if I were permanently satisfied my life would be static, because I would not be hungry for change. Music has always helped me to become myself, not to be.

4 You weren’t always LA NIÑA as we know you now, what has changed?

As I wrote before, music is for me a process of transformation and liberation, and it is evident that in my pre-NIÑA lives I was still looking for my true voice, because the first time I felt really free was when I wrote “Croce”.

I always played in other bands as a session player and I also had another project where I sang in English but both experiences taught me that I was putting too much distance between what I was and what I sang, the two things did not coincide.

Now everything is different, perhaps also because Neapolitan is such a visceral language that it manages to take control of you and not vice versa.

Sometimes the only way to be in balance is to totally lose control.

5 Your first EP is out and we are in love with it, what can you tell us about Eden? Why this name?

Eden for me is a beginning and a destination at the same time.

It was born out of the need to free myself from the past, to dance my traumas and whisper what once deafened me.

Nothing I write is ever a true point of arrival, despite being a “finished product”.

The name “Eden” represents precisely this, a place of the eternal soul made of sound, where beginning and end are the same thing.

6 In your opinion, how has being a woman influenced your career and artistic career?

I don’t know, but surely the frustration of living in a world that has always been only on a human scale makes itself felt even more now that I am no longer a child.

We humans still have a long way to go.