I Foja I am a musical project born in 2006 of Neapolitan folk rock music. The band consists of: Dario Sansone, Ennio Frongillo, Giuliano Sansone and Giovanni Schiattarella. Their first single video clip O'Sciore and o Viento in 2011 it reaches 2000 million views on Youtube. From their first album "Na Storia Nova" will be followed in 2012 by the Ep Foja Live - Trianon concert on 24/02/2012. In 2013 they released the soundtrack of the feature film "The Art of Happiness" and later in 2016 they are the first folk band to perform at the San Carlo Theater of Naples. The great success comes in 2017 with the album O 'Treno che Va and the triumph in the animated film "The Cinderella Cat".
Foja: the birth and affirmation of the Campania band
The Foja project represents a dialectal, musical and creative journey in the Neapolitan language. The word "Foja" (passion in Neapolitan) has always been the band's philosophy. It shines in the live shows of Sansone soci band, mirror of anger, of fire, of the screaming instinct of the boys from Campania. Identity linked to the heart, to interactionality. O'Sciore O Viento', the Cat Cinderella, O 'Train That Goes, confirm the magical madness between music animation innovative artists representing the new that is advancing in the music scene. Foja excel in the Campania underground scene without setting goals and conquering their fans live after live. Strong, atavistic, essential bond, the public recognizes in Foja their vivid, empathic talent. A mirror of everyday life, a songwriting mixed with passion, fears, stories, told in the texts of Dario Sansone.
Foja: music and animation by Mad Entertainment
In 2014 the partnership with the director Alessandro Rak, with the soundtrack of the film “The art of Happiness. Animated feature film, cartoon of passion and intense melancholy, with music at the center. Winner the latter of the European Oscar, proudly Neapolitan and candidate in the five of David di Donatello and Silver ribbons success with audiences and critics. Mad Entertainment repeats the production with the masterpiece “The Cinderella Cat"Of 2017 from the homonymous fairy tale by Basile and inspired by the play by Roberto De Simone triumphs at the 74 Venice Film Festival and it gets well 7 nominations for the David di Donatello 2018. The city of Napoli triumphs.
The new European tour is underway
After the album O 'Treno che va, followed by a splendid tour made of intense live shows in Campania in 2018, the new European tour is about to start. The large slice of fans, of consents, of a revolution called Foja finally leaves on a dreamy train, full of emotions, but also of stories, to conquer stations with a foreign but pleasant flavor. The Foja international tour will start in November from Paris. On the 10th it will be ad Amsterdam, 12 a Liverpool, and then Dublin, London, Barcelona and Madrid stops accompanied by the exit of the singles "A qui appartiens ”feat Pauline Croze in French language e “Dummeneca” feat La pegatina in Catalan language. The Neapolitan language marries languages close to them, popular and folk that have always been culturally in tune. The city of Naples combined with the sounds and places of France and Catalonia. The tour avails itself of the support of the SIAE Mibact as part of the “Sillumina- Copia private for young people and culture” initiative.
