Biography
Curamunì is the music and poetry project of Roberta Gionfriddo and Maurizio Battista, a Sicilian duo born in 2019 and devoted to folk song, cunti (sung stories) and the rural culture of southern Italy. The name itself means, in Sicilian, "let us heal each other together": an invitation to togetherness, mutual support and healing through the voice.
Curamunì builds its research on the oral tradition of the itinerant poets who, for centuries, sang, preserved and handed down the Sicilian folk repertoire. Their songs weave a non-trivial use of the Sicilian language with a refined sound of voice, guitar and frame drums, able to evoke resonances reminiscent of Fabrizio De André's "Creuza de mä".
The duo has collaborated with ethno-anthropologist Paolo Uccello, writer Evelina Barone and poet Giovanni Anzalone, restoring a mythical and mystical Sicily populated by millenary cults, witch-priestesses, healing shepherds, saints and brigands. Their first EP "Rariki" ("roots") was released on 25 May 2021, alongside an art calendar produced with Kromato Edizioni whose proceeds were donated to charity.
Their performances are concert and shared circle at once, where instruments become forms of care, following the ancient function of singing as a practice of collective healing.
