The street singer-songwriter manager for charity: “My earnings to the poor of San Pietro”

Manager from Monday to Friday and street singer-songwriter on Saturdays and Sundays. With one goal: to offer disadvantaged people who do not have a roof over their heads the proceeds of their performances in Ponte Sant’Angelo and in via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome. By sharing some time and resources with them. It is the ‘second life’ dedicated to others, without pursuing personal gain, by Andrea Leandri, manager for a large international company for which he deals with advertising and digital. A commitment to others which, in his case, is enriched by another service: the preparation and distribution, on Tuesday and Thursday morning in Piazza Mastai, of breakfast for those who live in the street. A service that the manager performs before running to the office. “I am a music lover, I compose and perform my songs. I play the guitar and sing, I am a songwriter. With the pandemic – he tells AdnKronos Leandri – it was not possible to practice music in clubs. It was born from this impediment. the idea of ​​finding an outdoor stage that was practicable and safer. I have a proceeds from the activity I carry out and my goal is to distribute it to the people in need. This in light of the fact that mine is a activity parallel to work. It has always seemed right to me to have a remuneration sharing it, however, with those who really need sustenance “. “People who in Rome – he argues – live on the street and who not only need financial support but also to be considered. It is therefore not a question of giving them only 15 or 20 euros but of offering a signal of comfort and presence. In short, sometimes it is more important to spend five minutes with them than to give money. I help a group of people who live under the Colonnade of San Pietro “. Leandri is moved” by a humanitarian spirit in a general sense, more secular than religious “. if in the past, he says, “I volunteered with the Community of Sant’Egidio. Now, again for the homeless, I volunteer with the ‘Tuttoblue (Arte e Sociale)’ association, preparing breakfast for them on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Piazza Mastai in Rome. We are part of a group of lay and Catholic associations, including Sant’Egidio, which volunteer in the city “. Leandri, who has the album entitled ‘Onde’ to his credit and has another one in preparation, writes songs that fall within the vein of Italian songwriting music. I perform covers based on the classics, from De André to Lucio Dalla. I also like to enter the Roman tradition and for this I pick up old songs, from the ‘Barcarolo romano’ to the repertoire of Franco Califano passing through that of Gabriella Ferri. When I perform on the street I interpret the covers of the most famous popular rock music: I also cover English music and more international “, he concludes.