He left Cittadella to look at the horizon beyond the walls of his city. With determination and desire to embrace the wave of music that chases from an early age, when he listened to parents’ cds. “They kept them inside a large plastic bag … especially Pupo, the singer loved by my mother.”
Niccolò Cervellin, born in 2001, aka Soniko has very clear ideas, and what he is doing testifies it.
A political career, with many facets, a past between rap and trap, with texts that remember and like them as “hatred all”, “Chanel” and “Noche Caliente”, but also television host. Now he has found his artistic expression that most feels, that of DJ and Producer, a reality with which he is most in tune. Soniko a few days ago published “Sweet Talking” a very catchy song that conquers the first listening, a refined mixture of pop and techno, and whose text he describes as follows: «With Sweet talking I wanted to capture, in a song, those suspended moments and loads of emotional tension that precede the intimacy between two people. It is a song that wants to talk about everything that happens before the mere physical relationship between two lovers, that game of looks, whispered words, some hesitation, some promises not said but already perceived. I want to grasp the thin shades that often escape us but fundamental for a real connection ».
The song is accompanied by very original video clips, in which the protagonist is a bunny, whose stylized symbol likes Niccolò (the storyboard is signed by Beppe Stanco, also its producer). A sound that has an international breath as elegant and convincing, a guarantee of how much talent there is in the twenty -five year old Veneto. He divides himself between Cittadella and Milan and raises a breath of fresh air into Italian music with pop shades, the legacy of his songwriting past, which he likes his peers and beyond. Soniko does not like labels, he turns the Music Clubs of the Veneto with his console, meets, listens and collects the mood of the moment to understand what Italian boys want, looking at the AI (used in the video clip) that he explores in a conscious way and is among the first artists to do it in Italy, so as to combine his personal artistic vision with the most futuristic technological experimentation, a sign of current times.
«I worked as a singer from 2016 to 2023 -explains Soniko to Il Giornale.it -, with the Bano we will do at night I collected a good success with 3.6 million views on YouTube and 1.5 million listening to Spotify. However, after a personally difficult period, I abandoned the project of a band to react as DJ, after years that I bought the Venetian panorama of the music ».
And among his favorite DJs, Soniko looks to Kim Min-Ji, aka Peggy Gou, South Korean trendy artist.
«The tastes of young people change continuously, I see it from social media, from my evenings. We are no longer in the nineties where everyone had its gene, from pop to punk to songwriting music, today everyone listens to a little bit of everything. I myself do not follow a defined music line, today I like Peggy Goue tomorrow could be Bob Sinclair. However, I remain stopped on my concept, on a message that I want to communicate ».
Speaking of messages, Niccolò does not like the romantic song, hidden, he prefers something more. «I am a bit against the love songs, I am more interested in the intimate aspect and I can’t stand even the texts that speak of drugs. I prefer to look for topics that other artists do not touch. For this reason, in Sweet Talking I deepen that particular moment that precedes a love relationship that does not seem to me to remember in other songs that instead speak of the sexual act in itself or the life of a couple. Sweet Talking tells everything that could happen and be between two lovers but that still does not exist, convinced that thinking about it too much about feelings. “
Quality takes time, says Soniko who thinks with the maturity of a forty -year -old and has a very precise and outlined vision, even when he explains that he would like a collaboration with Pupo, so also to pay homage to his mother, a little restying that his boyfriend travels the world of the showbiz. And so as to convince it that that is the right choice.
«I love to play my tools, the console and my sample, I refine the taste, listen, collect and remember sounds and music that I listened to many years ago, as a child, because I want to reworked them and propose them in my way. Ideas, sounds, images that buzz on my head, that getting up into our ears and now come back. It is like in fashion, its cycles are born, go out and then return renewed ».
Dance, therefore, but in pop style, with a fresh and original sound, well thought and written texts by a young, strong and courageous, although some woods of the past, who has found the right key to transpose today’s tastes and create what it likes. We will feel a lot about him in the future in the Italian music scene.
This is demonstrated by his performances in some stages of the summer tour of Radio 105, where he collected consent and success. So good that many thought was a foreign artist, perhaps resident DJ in Ibiza or Berlin. And instead, it is Italian pride.
Sweet talking video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHXODL1BJIA&List=rddhxodl1bjia&start_radio=1