THE TENCO OPENS TO CHINA. WINNING THE ROCK IN JIAN

The Club Tenco has chosen to reward the biggest Chinese rock star, Cui Jian, as a tribute to a thirty-year career in dispute and tradition.
Unknown in Italy, but considered something of a national hero in his homeland, since the early eighties, the “Old Cui” introduced the Western rock and electric guitar in the musical tradition of China: between punk and rock, its Nothing to my Name became in 1989 the hymn of the students in Tiananmen Square uprising. And it cost to Cui Jian seven years of restrictions and censorship.
Today, in an increasingly global music market, the Old Cui is a rockstar export, capable of singing a duet with disinvolutra with Deep Purple and the Rolling Stones. And his next album will produce Howie B, the same magician sounds behind the work of U2, Björk, Robbie Robertson and Tricky.
Cui Jian was performing at the Casino Theatre in Sanremo Friday, October 4.
In addition to the Old Cui, the Club Tenco has chosen to reward the British guitarist Robyn Hitchcock, author of great interest and sensitivity, to the fringes of the mainstream, who was responsible for the contamination between folk-rock and psychedelia brought to success by its The Soft Boys. In the middle, an eclectic career made ​​of poetry, painting and literary evidence.
Recently returned to the music scene with their new album Love From London, Hitchcock will open the Premio Tenco in the evening of Wednesday, October 2.