(R)esistere is a concept-album, in that all the songs were conceived and written with a common draft the continuum between private and public within the life of a person. The unity between the intimate, the interpersonal and the social dimensions creates a canvas where introspective (InchL'albumInch, InchSotto due cusciniInch...), relationship (InchCarillonInch, InchNon lasciarmi andare viaInch...) and socially-committed (InchResistereInch, InchKimeo e KasuiInch...) songs depict the thoughts and the actions of a single person. Not by chance, the songs that open and close the album (if we exlcude the two fragments that frame the entire work), i.e. InchFa-SiInch and InchInvecchia con meInch, are songs that precisely refer to the continuity between provate and public. Playing with words, one might say that this album is ego-de-centric. Anna Maria Castelli, singer. Castelli is a recording artist who started her carreer as a jazz singer. She has recorded four successful CDs, including InchSomething to rememberInch, the first non-classical superaudio CD distributed in Italy. In 2002 she performed in Lithuania with the Lithuanian State Simphony Orchestra a Léo Ferré Opera, InchOpéra du PauvreInch. She took part in the Festival of the Mediterranean Peoples in Bisceglie (Italy) with her performance InchThe night of dream GoddessesInch which awarded her the Portovenere Woman Prize in 2002 as the best female project. She won the Europe Music Prize in August 2002 with InchOpera TangoInch, accompanied by the Uruguayan bandoneonist H.U. Passarella and his quartet. Her love for tango produced another precious collaboration, with Academy Award-winner composer Luis Bacalov, focused on Carlos Gardel's tangos. Such eclectic artistic background is one of the main driving forces of her first pop album, (R)esistere, which indeed, while clearly talking the language of authorial-yet-mainstr