Fabrizio Cammarata Channels Sicilian Roots and Raw Emotion in New Single “Asanta”
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Fabrizio Cammarata is a Sicilian singer-songwriter whose music blends Mediterranean soul with indie folk intimacy. A true storyteller, he explores love, identity, and transformation through poetic lyrics and haunting melodies. Hailing from Palermo, he weaves his heritage into songs in English, Italian, Sicilian, Spanish, and other languages, crafting a sound that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.
His new single “Asanta” is the opening track from his upcoming concept album Insularities. Co-produced with Dani Castelar (Paolo Nutini, Jordan Mackampa) and Fabrizio’s brother Roberto Cammarata (a triple-platinum producer and writer), the track was born not in the studio, but in a moment of real solitude. While walking alone through the hills of his ancestral homeland, Fabrizio lost signal and found himself singing a chant that had been with him for years. The melody had been haunting him like a forgotten prayer, until it finally found its voice in that moment of isolation. With no instruments, just voice and instinct, he recorded “Asanta” as a raw voice memo. “It was pure voice, instinct, intuition,” he says. “I started singing the chant again, and there — with no instruments or support — ‘Asanta’ was born.” What followed was a deeply collaborative process that transformed that fragile spark into a richly layered piece of music.
Fabrizio explains, “My songwriting is deeply visual – I always see moving images as I write.” “Asanta” was inspired by an imagined scene of his mother as a child watching a saint’s procession in 1950s Sicily, a vision that became a mirror for Fabrizio’s own questions of heritage, memory, and belonging. The song reflects themes of cultural inheritance, motherhood, and personal reckoning. It opens in Sicilian before shifting into a chorus in English, allowing different parts of his inner world to speak to one another. “It felt as though different parts of my soul were speaking to each other — not in a ‘friendly’ way, but still communicating,” he adds.
Blending electronic textures with traditional influences, the song nods to artists like Tom Waits and Chavela Vargas, two symbolic figures in Fabrizio’s vocal journey. “I’ve moved away from linguistic complexity in favor of vocal intensity — singing not to impress with vocabulary, but to convey truth through tone, breath, and vulnerability.”
“Asanta” sets the tone for Insularities, a record that explores what it means to be an island—geographically, emotionally, and spiritually. Born from solitude, the song captures the tension between isolation and connection that runs throughout the album. It’s a striking example of Fabrizio’s commitment to music as storytelling: experimental, rooted in heritage, and emotionally fearless.
Fabrizio has toured internationally and been featured on numerous Spotify editorial playlists. He has opened for artists who shaped his own path—Patti Smith, Ben Harper, Iron & Wine, Villagers, and The Paper Kites—and performed at major festivals including SXSW, The Great Escape, Reeperbahn, MaMA, and Liverpool Sound City. He was invited on stage by Damien Rice, whom he calls a friend, and performed as part of Daniel Johnston’s band—moments that he describes not just as career highlights, but “deeply personal confirmations that music connects when it’s honest.”
The Insularities tour will begin this autumn, with a special album release show in London on September 26th at West Hampstead Arts Club.
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