{"id":829,"date":"2024-02-07T01:21:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T01:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/the-story-of-mr-rain-told-by-his-former-stage-partner-osso-this-is-why-we-turned-down-x-factor-after-the-auditions\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T01:21:49","slug":"the-story-of-mr-rain-told-by-his-former-stage-partner-osso-this-is-why-we-turned-down-x-factor-after-the-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/the-story-of-mr-rain-told-by-his-former-stage-partner-osso-this-is-why-we-turned-down-x-factor-after-the-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of Mr Rain told by his former stage partner Osso: &#8220;This is why we turned down X Factor after the auditions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the talent show, we went our separate ways because I preferred to study. We were classmates in kindergarten and on stage.<\/p>\n<p>The auditions were successful with three yeses out of four (from Morgan, Fedez, Simona Ventura against Mika&#8217;s no). But the duo refused to participate in the talent show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was six years old, I threw so many tantrums to have a guitar that my dad gave me one. I started learning by myself.<\/p>\n<p>By eleven years old, I already knew how to play and record while singing. I was fascinated by Chab Khaled, rhythm and blues.<\/p>\n<p>As I grew up, I did small concerts of cover songs. I was a kid and didn&#8217;t write songs yet,&#8221; one of them said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were classmates in kindergarten even though he is a year older than me. His dad had an oven.<\/p>\n<p>He grew up to become a well-known rapper, and I was more pop and starting to make myself heard. One day we met in a parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>We were 16 years old. Galup (Alberto Galuppini), a reggae singer, was also there.<\/p>\n<p>We spent the afternoon singing and playing. That day a sort of collective was born where everyone collaborated on each other&#8217;s productions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was one of them. To participate, I skipped school.<\/p>\n<p>I made it to the quarter-finals, getting known and appreciated by the audience and critics. When I returned to Italy, I graduated from a scientific high school and took a sabbatical year to make music,&#8221; another said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had our chances, but we realized that there were too many constraints. And we wanted to make our music freely, especially since we didn&#8217;t have the certainty of moving forward in the talent show.<\/p>\n<p>So, we refused access to the program.&#8221; &#8220;He definitely kept them,&#8221; one of them said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I preferred studying, I didn&#8217;t want to sell myself to the market like a music product. Mattia continued on the hype.<\/p>\n<p>And now rightly so, he is reaping what he sowed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the talent show, we went our separate ways because I preferred to study. We were classmates in kindergarten and on stage. The auditions were successful with three yeses out of four (from Morgan, Fedez, Simona Ventura against Mika&#8217;s no). But the duo refused to participate in the talent show. &#8220;When I was six years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talent-show-duo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucarolli.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}