In San Vito Lo Capo returns the Cous Cous Fest and returning even the big names of Italian and international music to enliven the evenings of great culinary festival, which since 1997 has become one of the pivotal events of the summer not only sanvitese, but also international , as the Cous Cous Fest in San Vito Lo Capo it is known outside national borders.
It begins on September 19 with a concert by Caparezza in San Vito Lo Capo, aka Michele Salvemini, which is a brilliant singer and rapper, who for 20 years dominating the music scene with a genre that is not the traditional rap, but a rap alternative.
In fact, while maintaining the technical and expressive music typical of the genre, it is characterized by the contents committed by socially.
Within the genre of music has been a great success with the song “Fuori dal tunnel” (2003) which was a real summer hit, Caparezza although he was not very happy, because the song did not write it to be danced merrily in the disco or on television, because the text actually contains a strong indictment of all those "fun factories" unregulated, requiring everyone to have fun in the same way without the respect of the human person.
Caparezza kept us very own use of the piece and did not give permission to any television program, except Zelig Circus, to transmit it.
During his twenty-year career are 8 albums released and the last success in chronological order is the Museica album, released in 2014 and contains 19 tracks, through which Caparezza has reached the first position in the ranking of best-selling albums in Italy.
A curiosity: Caparezza early in his career had adopted the pseudonym Mikimix, he held until 1998, when growing his hair long and curled, hence the alias Caparezza, which in the dialect of Molfetta, his hometown, It means "curly head".