Ivan Dalia: Blind Pianist Who Sees Beyond the Visible

Stefania Gaudiosi interviews Ivan Dalia, a blind pianist from Teverola, Caserta, who gained fame on Italy's Got Talent. Dalia, born in 1985, has performed worldwide from Berlin to Boston, Milan to New York. His most memorable duet was with jazz harmonica legend Toots Thielemans at the 2006 Marechiaro Jazz Festival. In 2018, he released his debut album, described as an uninterrupted flight, including a track titled 'Dolphin'. The interview explores Dalia's philosophy that 'looking is not seeing' and that true perception occurs in darkness, where music becomes the territory of the invisible. He discusses the power of words and tone, stating that for someone who cannot see, words and their tone are measured carefully. The conversation also recalls their shared time in Naples, listening to music from Ryūichi Sakamoto's album 'Casa' (recorded at Tom Jobim's home in Rio de Janeiro) and reading Octavio Paz's 'The Bow and the Lyre'. Dalia's talent was praised by Luciana Littizzetto as 'boundless, without reference points, like deconstructed', and she claimed people like him change the world.