Genre
Neapolitan pop-blues and soul. The album balances polished mid-tempo pop tracks with the blues-inflected guitar work and Neapolitan sensibility that defines Daniele's style, enriched by three notable collaborations — "Scirocco d'Africa" with Giorgia, "The Desert in My Head" with Noa, and "Canto do Mar" with the Neapolitan hip-hop group Almamegretta and rapper Raiss — that extend the album's thematic and sonic range.
Release
Released on March 12, 1997, by CGD East West. It was Daniele's fifteenth studio album.
Production
Produced and arranged by Pino Daniele. All lyrics and music by Pino Daniele, except "The Desert in My Head" (lyrics by Noa) and "Canto do Mar" (Daniele and Raiss). Recorded and mixed at Plastic Studios, Rome.
Reception
Dimmi cosa succede sulla terra was the best-selling Italian album of 1997, with over 900,000 copies sold during the year — finishing second in the annual chart — and ultimately exceeding one million copies, earning ten platinum discs. It debuted at number two on the FIMI chart and reached number one the following week. At the Premio Italiano della Musica 1998, it received a nomination as Album of the Year and "Che male c'è" was nominated as Song of the Year; Daniele also won the special Artist of the Year prize from the magazine Musica!. The album won the Festivalbar 1997.
Pino Daniele
Giuseppe "Pino" Daniele (March 19, 1955, Naples – January 4, 2015, Rome) was an Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer, widely regarded as the most important musical figure to emerge from Naples in the second half of the twentieth century. The son of a harbour worker, raised in the Sanità neighbourhood, he was a self-taught guitarist who forged a distinctive style he termed "taramblu" — a portmanteau of tarantella, blues, and rumba. His landmark debut Terra mia (1977) fused Neapolitan dialect poetry with blues guitar, and Nero a metà (1980) became a touchstone of Italian popular music. He collaborated with Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and Eric Clapton and composed the music for three films by Massimo Troisi. The President of Italy and the Mayor of Naples both paid tribute at his death; his funeral, initially planned for a basilica, had to be moved to the Piazza del Plebiscito to accommodate the tens of thousands of mourners.
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