Gino Castaldo

Gino Castaldo is one of Italy's leading music critics. He has been writing for "La Repubblica" since its founding in 1976. He has produced numerous television and radio programs. Since 2016, he has hosted the program "Back2Back" on Radio 2, together with Ema Stokholma. Together, they hosted the live radio broadcasts of the Sanremo Music Festival from 2018 to 2023. Over the past twenty years, he has been actively involved in storytelling at festivals and theaters. He is the author of several books, including "The Novel of Italian Song" (Einaudi) and "The Beatles and the Rolling Stones: Apollinei e Dionisiaci" (Einaudi). In 2021, with Ernesto Assante, he wrote the biography "Lucio Dalla" for Mondadori.