Claudio Baglioni discorso per la FAO DEL 24 APRILE 2012

Il discorso di Claudio Baglioni , ospite eccezionale alla sede della FAO il 24 aprile u.s. per l'inaugurazione dello Sheikh Zayed International Media and Knowledge Centre: http://www.facebook.com/claudiobaglioniofficial
Excellencies,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

first of all I would like to pay my respects to
His Royal Highness,
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan,
to the Director General,
Graziano da Silva,
and I want to thank everyone of you
for the great honor
of being here today
and this is the reason why
I wrote these words. I’m not used to read
but the emotion could be really strong.

You know:
I'm a musician, a composer, a singer,
a songwriter also an architect,
but this is another story
and I feel much more comfortable
with music and stages than with speeches,
so I really hope you will forgive me.

We live times we should call
communication era.

Every human being is,
actually or potentially,
linked with everyone else on our planet.

Information is almost everything.
And exchanging information is one of the most important aspects of our life.

Music and Art are probably the best medium we have.
The only language in the world
that everyone can speak and understand.
Even those who don't know
how to write it or read it.

I think that music is always been the real Esperanto.
And in some way we could say that music is everybody's mother tongue.
Thanks to music,
the whole world can easily share
emotions and feelings,
exchange news and information.

In the last ten years,
the O'scia' Foundation
has experienced the power of music.

Thanks to the O'scia' concerts born on Lampedusa island,
(which is a sort of land of hope
for the migrants from Africa and Asia)
thousands of people from different countries, cultures, traditions and faiths met,
knowing each-other,
learning mutual respect,
catching the value of diversity
and start turning it into
a precious resource for everyone.

That's precisely what we need to do
to explain people, hearts,
minds and consciences,
that achieving food security for all
is the most important and pressing goal
and must be the first commitment for the government of all our countries.

As I was arriving here today,
my mind went back to october 1996:
theWorld Food Day Concert in Rome.
The first one but unfortunately
the only one never done over again.

I was one of the authors
of that amazing event,
-I remember a crowd, an audience
five hundred thousands people-
more then a half of million persons
before me,
live broadcasted world wide
from the Colosseum
and I was there,
with some of the greatest artists in the world,
proud to be an ambassador of FAO
and hopeful that music could help
promoting and supporting FAO's mission.

And today I'm as proud as I was back then.
Proud to be here,
hoping music will once again
help us to remind everybody that
we cannot neither talk of progress
nor of growth of the world economy
unless every man and woman on Earth
will have regular access to
enough high-quality food
in order to lead and active, and healthy life.
Thank you.