Zucchero Fornaciari is a special appearance in pop music because of his tiger hat, long coat and sunglasses. You could call him the Joe Cocker of Italy because of his lived raspy voice. He made his first records in the mid-1980s, but only really broke through in the early 1990s thanks to the hit Senza Una Donna, a duet with Paul Young. Blue Sugar is the successor to the 1995 commercially less
… successful Spiritodivino. On Blue Sugar Zucchero sings partly in English and Italian. The songs alternate with influences from dance (U Make Me Feel Loved, X Semper Tu), blues (Blue) and rock (Back 2 U). However, the better songs are the less complicated sounding pop songs on Blue Sugar like Thin Air, If Not Tonight and the dramatic More Than This with guest appearances by Steve Winwood (organ) and Augusto Daolio. (CK)more
