Tonino Zurlo was born in Ostuni in January of 1946. He is always occupied of restauration and of antiquariato. To 25 it begins to play the guitar improvising the musical passages according to your philosophy,: 'the rhythm of the metronome but that it is not important of the heart.' Tonino invents songs for 'a different world.' Later a few years begin to frequent the Folk Studio in Rome, and, despite the success, it seems really not to interest his success with you them capital.

Tonino Zurlo to the presentation of Jata viende: ostuni August 5 th 2003

And' is 'open' only some years ago and entirely casually, from Giovanna Marini, with which he has collaborated in different occasions. he has played in the universities of Urbino, Parma, Milan, Naples, Padua, Bari and in other anchor. In 2003 it realizes Your first CD 'Jata viende', to leave a trace in the memory. And' in process the Your according to album.

They say of him Giovanna Marini and Mono Ovadia: I feel the disk and they remain me in mind the words: ... when you fall in love yourself you feel in the heart... we am plucked from alive... who has the hump it has a great deal something deep... the sea has shaken and me ago fear the death... the light soul doesn't want to speak anymore... he doesn't want to make the accounts anymore... if the love is strong the old man it goes to malora... Madonna as it is this South!... and here one stop him and it reflect. As it is this South?

Tonino Zurlo and Moni Ovadia

After you have listened once to him for you don't forget him/it to you more. Then Tonino I have met him. It was as his songs, the compenetrazione among Your way of, to speak, to live, to sing accompanying with guitar I am an urgent and inseparable unicum. They are departed twenty-five years of flood of the mud consumista, of I degrade television of every cultural fabric, of reduction of the traditional and popular values to quiz strapaese and talk show of the scannatoio mediatico. Tonino has not entered any fashion, in any living room, in any desirable way for the market not even that chic of the left, even in that radical.

Moni Ovadia during the evening of presentation of Jata viende

In this timecourse I have cursed my anger because a so great and necessary talent has not received the listening and the dignity that it was up to him, in vain. It needs to reenter us in some way, to be cunning, to know him to sell, for "to exist" and this is also worth for the best of us. Tonino has the urgency of a low truth and is known this type of truth he doesn't sell. But Tonino comes from the depths of the time and the earth, the ephemeral soul of the actuality doesn't graze him/it, its proletarian art and cafona it doesn't know the twilight. He is referred alive after this whole time engraving "Jata viende, " a disk of his songs that any fashion can darken and any reasonableness can subjugate, as if nothing was happened, not for unawareness, but for fidelity to something that cannot lose without losing yourself. It now sings as then he now speaks, as then. It is our turn, once so much stuffed cunning and not to lose Tonino for any reason, to care to course of hand the voice and the sounds of someone that it tells of human beings and not of consumers to remember us from where we come for knowing where we want to go. To me it touches with these words to pay a debt that I have contracted twenty-five years ago and that I will contract every time that Tonino will send me his/her songs. And' the debt that you have with whom teaches yourself to understand the walk of the man. Moni Ovadia

Linus