Rosa Balistreri Rosa Balistreri was born in Licata in the province of Agrigento. She lived in Florence for about twenty years. In 1971 she moved to Palermo. She started singing in 1966, taking part in the show "Ci ragiono e canto" by Dario Fo. In 1968 she was part of the choir in Arlante's "La rosa di zolfo" in Catania. Apart from singing in various theatres including the Manzoni in Milan, the Carignano in Turin and the Metastasio in Prato. She also held folk seminars in several universities. Her first LP was recorded in 1966. No voice other than Rosa Balistreri's expresses so successfully the dramatic tones of a Sicily that seems to be overflowing with pain but also of hope, interpreting age old feelings. Rosa Balistreri no longer very young, started singing late in her life and happened on her talent by chance. She had for years kept her vocation a secret not even planning a career. But when she began to sing, her voice embodied Sicily (vibration of unbridled love, a great, all consuming passion). Rosa Balistreri came from Licata, one of the poorest villages in Agrigento where the experience of pain and denial is fatal, but where people have always faced up to their sad fate with immense pride. Poor and proud, she too set off in search of fame and fortune. She did not choose an industrial city, where the price of bread is enough to break your heart. From Licata she headed for Florence, where her experience as an immigrant would lead her to experience new sacrifices, constantly asking herself what her purpose in life really was. Her purpose in life lay within herself, she only had to recognise it, unleash it, like undoing the clasps on an old case which had a secret treasure hidden inside. This treasure was not so much her voice but the projection in her soul of all the songs that she had heard in Sicily in the sunny countryside or along the coast of the African sea which eroded by the wind and the salishness the Agrigento coast.

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