The band Roy Bianco & The Abbrunzati Boys fills the halls with pizza-pasta-amore clichés and a big wink. An encounter with the Italo Schlager group in Frankfurt.
A mild August evening on the Frankfurt summer meadow. Hundreds of young people squeeze in front of the stage, they wear azure blue “Italia!” football jerseys, they wave “Napoli” scarves. A white curtain covers the stage. “From Sirmione on Lake Garda for you,” booms a man’s voice from the speakers, “here are: Roy -Bianco and The Abbrunzati Boys!” Screams, cheers, applause. “I see us driving south on the Brenner autobahn./Hold your hand and know, now it’s good,” sounds the still-veiled stage. The fans cheer along, it feels like a football stadium. Frenzied disco synths, hands reaching for the sky. The curtain falls. Six men dance in the yellow headlights, one calls into the microphone with a rolling R: “A very warm welcome and a fiery buon giorno!”
Namely at the concert of the Italo hit band “Roy Bianco & The Abbrunzati Boys”. Her debut album “Greatest Hits” was released in 2020. With the album “Mille Grazie” they went straight to number one in the German charts in 2022 and knocked the Red Hot Chili Peppers off the throne. Their songs are called “Vino Bianco”, “Days at the Pool” or “Baci”, the most popular hit “Bella Napoli” was accessed almost 5 million times on Spotify.