"Were I born in Bolzano, probably I would write of mountains instead of sea."
If he had been born in Genoa or in Emilia, artist Guido Politi would have follow the same steps as De André's or Guccini's. But somehow, all pople are children of their land, and then Guido could have lacked for that sanguine popular culture he only could soak up and absorb in Siciliy. Yes, because, on the contrary, Politi is a Palermitano "d.o.c.", born here in 1947, who never left away his Sicily but for little times.
After short youth experience as a songwriter in a rock band and several shows organized by some cultural associations, theaters and university, in 1968, in his twenties he was invited to sing at the Faculty of Lettere of Bari University, where some common friends introduced him to Fabrizio De André. This encounter stimulated the completion of his project "Una storia di pazzi", nine songs about three fugitives from a mental hospital that, escaped by boat, docked a little isle where they started telling to the lighthouse man their own lives. In 1969 a LP came out, released by Durium, and, later on, the same label published a single consisting of two love-songs: “Cerco un’Isola” and “Immagini”.
But arts not always pay, and so the artist gets craftman, and, by transforming his love for sea and sailing in a brilliant craft activity, Politi becomes a shipbuilder. While he continues on cultivating his invincible passion for music. In fact, he keeps on writing songs - he has written about 50 compositions so far - and goes on with performing as songwriter-storyteller, singing the world, his own world, with the eyes and the heart of a sensitive poet. His way to see things, to process just forgotten events, to research facts and characters, real or imaginary, mithic or similar, that represent and become everybody's story, which tells about the universe-man. And not only that makes Politi a modern poet, but that, by listening to his songs, one identifies himself, recognizes himself, feels like a part of that universe, unavoidably.