Roby Facchinetti on Why His Italian Coronavirus Anthem Struck a Chord: 'Music Can Give Us So Much'
MILAN -- Roby Facchinetti is the singer and co-author of "Rinascerò, Rinascerai" (literally, "I will be reborn, you will be reborn"), which became a YouTube sensation within hours of its release on Friday. The song and its accompanying video are a tribute to Facchinetti’s beautiful hometown in Northern Italy, Bergamo, which is one of the country’s -- and the world’s -- worst-hit communities of the coronavirus pandemic. The city's Papa Giovanni XXIII (Pope John XXIII) Hospital is on the front line, and Facchinetti and his co-songwriter, Stefano