Marcella Boccia

Marcella Boccia (Baia e Latina, Italy, 1974) is an Italian poet, writer and rapper.

Biography

Marcella Boccia wrote many songs and many of her poetries have become songs.
She has collaborated with Alessandro Sommella, musicist of Planet Funk, writing songs for him.
She has received the “Poet Top 2004” Prize from the International Association Artists (A.I.A.).
She is a pacifist writer. She lives between Italy and India and, like Gandhi, she makes hunger strikes in order to protest against the world's injustices. "Congo" is a song of denunciation of the civil war in Africa.
She has received the "Mandir of Peace Prize" for her pacifist books (2005).
Her Indian name is Heena Suman.

Phuntsog Nyidron

In 2007 Marcella Boccia made in London the video "Roof of the world" with the director Roy Roberts. The song tells the story of Phuntsog Nyidron, the Tibetan nun imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese in Drapchi jail. Phuntsog Nyidron is in the video.

Bibliography

*Impronte digitali sulla mia Anima (Spring, Caserta, 2004)
*Poesia e Musica per la Pace (New Age & Dintorni, Milano, 2005)
*Welcome a Baia giuliva (Edarc, Firenze, 2006)
*Diario dall'India (Edarc, Firenze, 2007)
*Liquido Amore (2007)
*New Age (con P. Boccia) (2007)
*Girandole ed aquiloni (2007)
*Mos gjuaj - Non sparare (2008)
*Lettere dall'India (2008)
*Tantra (2008)
*Perla Polidoro (2008)
*Azadi, diario dal Kashmir (2008)

Discography

*Canzoni da ricordare (1999)
*Next Age (2000)
*Ninna brilla (single, 2007)
*Vata (2008)
*Cerchi nel grano (single, 2008)

ee also

*Italian poets
*Pacifism and Nonviolence
*Alessandro Sommella, Planet Funk

External links

* [http://www.marcellaboccia.it Italian Web site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/marcellaboccia Myspace Marcella Boccia's official page]
* [http://poesiamusicapace.splinder.com/ Italian blog]