Valeria Altobelli. Photo Credit: Daniele Venturelli.
Valeria Altobelli is a woman of many talents: singer-songwriter, model, actress, presenter, and a former Miss World Italy. She chatted about her latest endeavors.
President John F. Kennedy once said: “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” This quote applies to Valeria Altobelli.
What motivates you each day?
I truly think we can change the world with the power of music and good energy. I am motivated by the simplest things, the same simple things that are the most important ones for me: the green of the nature, the smell of my son, the smiles and the energy of the people.
Many times I say I would have loved to live in the 70ies. The pacific protests against war, the messages given by the iconic concerts, the lyrics of the songs…
Well, I dream a world like this still today, to fight all united for humanity, with the weapons of music and love!
What are some of the latest projects that you are working on?
I putted together an international all female band, with women musicians from the 5 continents, something never happened in the past. I truly believe women are created to give love.
This love, combined to the music, has the immense strength to change people’s life! I’ve always been a live artist, since I was 13 years old.
I truly worked stronger and stronger to score music for movies: last year I gave a song to an international movie with Harvey Keitel and Olga Kurylenko and right now I am scoring a new international movie with A-list stars.
I started composing with music and lyrics at the beginning and, in time, I collaborated in a project with greatest artists like Diane Warren and John Debney.
Then I took the courage and I switched to the scoring for images.. my biggest dream since I was a little child!
What do your plans for the future include?
To keep spreading the messages of peace and brotherhood, of the sorority among women with my wonderful all female international band.
When they play, I am enchanted! Someone told that even the war, some day, will stop in front of a guitar. Well, I imagine this guitar to be played by a woman!
Were there any moments in your career that have helped define you?
Well.. many moments. The first day I started playing an instrument, at six years old. NY law degree in Copyright to close a circle. My international relations Master’s degree allowed me to be a president of an international NGO that supports women and children, Mission NGO.
How did it feel to be a former Miss World Italy?
Well, in Europe this is something you’d truly better avoid to tell! I had to struggle more, with many prejudices against beauty queens! I had to double demonstrate that I had a brain.
I know it sounds strange.. but it is a cultural stereotype I think. If today I am even an University Professor is because of that. To be a Professor neutralizes, maybe, the fact that I was a Miss Italy.
How does it feel to be a part of the digital age? (now with streaming, technology and social media being so prevalent)?
I am totally somewhere else with my heart and brain. I am a classical lover. I speak five languages and, moreover, I read and translate classical Latin and Greek. I love writing with the pen, smelling the paper…
When I write a song, music, I am not so able to make it in the modern way. I write on a piano, on a guitar, and with a flute… and I need the help of my friend Maestro Mistheria, that plays keyboards with the legendary Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden, to put everything I have in mind and on a pentagramma in a computer.
Moreover, I am a live artist and performer.. so I have no idea about streaming and whatever.
In regards to social media, I have a lot of followers.. but I have to say that, more or less, I know all of them personally! (smiles). Like Plato used to say, I am a social animal!
What is your advice for hopefuls that wish to go into law or music or their chosen vocations?
To follow their heart.. and to avoid each kind of prejudice! In life you’ll never know! I did my law master and degrees to please my dad, that is a lawyer.
Thanks God, I found the copyright subject in it and the international human rights law! It helped me a lot with my career as an artist and as a CEO of a charity.
Nowadays, my profession is to be an artist.. and my hobby is to teach at a university! Strange, no?
What does the word success mean to you? (My favorite question)
What I usually say, in Italian, is that “success” – in the Italian language – is the past participle of the verb “to succeed”.. and I am not interested in it!
I truly think that, if you work good and hard and, moreover, with passion, the success is just a natural consequence of your work! So… keep working!
To learn more about Valeria Altobelli, follow her on Instagram, X, and visit her official homepage.
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