She won first prize at the "Diano Marina-Jazz Festival", which was directed by Jazz composer Giorgio Gaslini. Around this time, she also attended a three-year course in singing at the Vienna Conservatory.
Between 1983 and 1987 she worked with artists such as saxophonist Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Sunnyland Slim and Champion Jack Dupree, both in the recording studio and in concerts. She attended singing seminars with artists such as Bobby McFerrin and Sheila Jordan during the same period.
Chance encounters with producers from the Pop music scene led to cooperations such the recording of the Paul McCartney song "Oh Darling", which Etta adapted with Italian lyrics. This song immediately shot to No. 1 in the Austrian charts.
In the 1990s she was busy in Hamburg where she, along with the musical Ensemble L'art pour l'Art (see also Palimpsest by H. J. Hespos), undertook experiments with contemporary music. She composed film scores – for example Come la pioggia for the film "Für immer und immer" (for ever and ever) by Hark Bohm and "I tuoi fiori" for the film "Bad Guy" by Korean director Kim Ki-Duk. Due to her musical tours and her albums Blu, Il bianco del tempo (Orbit Rec.) and Casa (Mongebel), she is one of the most popular Italian artists in Germany today.
Resident in Berlin und Sicily, she is currently devoting herself to composing and to exploring traditional music.
The success of her Canta Ro' symphonic concerts, which were performed as part of the Palermo summer Festival in July 2004 featuring Etta Scollo and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, conducted by Angelo Faja, has confirmed the contemporary relevance of Sicily's traditional music, which until then was known only to a limited audience.
The live recording of this project was awarded the «deutschen Schallplatten KritikerPreis 2005» and together with Canta Ro' in Trio won the RUTH-Preis 2007.
Around the same time, she went on tour with Les Siciliens, a performance documenting the dreams and reality, history and myths of her native island. From this, a live album was produced. In addition, she gave a concert together with Franco Scaldati und Enrico Stassi, La mia vita vorrei scriverla cantando – omaggio a Ignazio Buttita.
For the "Festival delle Orestiadi" in Gibellina ,she composed Il fiore splendente (Edel Classic), a poetical-musical project drawn from an anthology of Arabian poets in Sicily, published by Francesca M. Corrao.
The resulting CD was released in September 2008.
The project has been enriched by the much appreciated contribution of several outstanding figures of the international music scene, including Maestro Franco Battiato, cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima, Nabil Salameh, singer and leader of the multicultural band Radiodervish, the composer and Trumpet player Markus Stockhausen, the soprano Cécile Kempenaers and the actor and singer-songwriter Alain Croubalian. Il fiore splendente is also published in Italy (Edel Italia) France (Integral Classic) and USA (Allegro).
Oh! Darling
Etta Scollo Lyrics
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I'll never do you no harm
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm
Oh! Darling, if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I tell you, ooo
Don't ever leave me alone
You didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me
you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died
Oh! Darling if you leave me
I'll never make it alone
Believe me when I tell you
I'll never do you no harm
(Believe me darling)
When you told me
You didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
When you told me
you didn't need me anymore
Well you know I nearly broke down and died
Oh! Darling, please believe me
I'll never let you down
Oh, believe me darling
Believe me when I tell you, ooo
I'll never do you no harm
The lyrics of Etta Scollo's song "Oh! Darling" express a passionate plea to a lover to believe in the singer's professed loyalty. The opening lines reveal the main motif of the song, with the singer asking her lover to trust her and believe that she would never intentionally hurt him. The singer then goes on to express her fear of being left alone by her lover, acknowledging that she would not be able to cope without him.
Later in the song, the singer recalls a moment when her lover told her that he did not need her anymore, which caused her immense pain and even made her feel as if she might die. However, she continues to plead with him to believe her when she says that she would never let him down, and that she would never cause him any harm.
The song is an emotional expression of the deep bond between two lovers, where one is asking the other to believe in their love and remain by their side. It is a heartfelt and compelling message, beautifully delivered by Etta Scollo.
Line by Line Meaning
Oh! darling, please believe me
My dear, I sincerely hope you trust me
I'll never do you no harm
I promise to never cause you any pain
Believe me when I tell you
Have faith in me when I say
I'll never make it alone
I'll struggle to cope without you
Don't ever leave me alone
Please stay by my side forever
When you told me
The moment you said
You didn't need me anymore
You didn't want me in your life
Well you know I nearly broke down and cried
I was so devastated that I almost burst into tears
Well you know I nearly broke down and died
I was so heartbroken that I almost couldn't go on living
I'll never let you down
I'll never disappoint you
Believe me when I tell you, ooo
Please trust me, my love
Writer(s): Paul Mccartney, John Lennon
Contributed by Parker V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
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