For the first time, the great French tenor has recorded a repertoire that he could sing every day without ever getting tired of it: "These songs are a part of me". The first language Alagna spoke, as well as the first one in which he sang, was Sicilian. He's not hiding the fact that The Sicilian is also a search for identity: "I suddenly felt Sicilian while recording this disc, just like I suddenly felt French while singing La Marseillaise (on Bastille Day of 2005 at the Place de la Concorde). This is the disc of a son of Sicilians looking for his roots." "In this recording", says Roberto Alagna, "I wanted to present the traditional song as the equal of the tango, of jazz or of the bossa nova." To achieve this, he once again called upon Yvan Cassar, who had already produced the album Roberto Alagna sings Luis Mariano, his incursion into the repertoire of operetta. "Who am I to make a disc of traditional Sicilian music?" the producer asked at first. "But the songs are magnificent, the melodies are unbelievably beautiful and I took advantage of Roberto's knowledge of this repertoire to convey it in the most universal way."