Leila Adu - "Fortuna" [2011] Tracce/Rai Trade

Fortuna is the second single from Leila Adu's album "Ode to the Unknown Factory Worker" released in 2011 on Tracce/Rai Trade. The video is uploaded at HD 1080p.

In Leila's own words: "Fortuna is a song about the wheel of fortune that eternally goes up and down with our affairs, both emotional and material. It speaks of true friends, loneliness and the power to ride out low times."

Featuring Leila Adu(organ/vocals) and De Santis(drums) at Ausland in Berlin.

Directed and Edited by Boston Fielder for Odd Endeavors
Videography by Alison Blunt, Leila Adu and Boston Fielder

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"Fortuna" music credits:

Recorded and mixed 2009-2010,
Rome, Sala A, Centro di Produzione Radio Roma

Rai Radiotre - Executive Producer: Pino Saulo
Producer - Leila Adu
Recording Engineer - Luca De loris
Mixed by Luca De Loris, Leila Adu and Daniele De Santis
Mastered by Fabrizio de Carolis, Reference Studio, Rome

"Fortuna" Lyrics:

Here all alone
I hear it's all too much
That I am not enough

Tell myself it's a phase
The ups and the downs
What goes down, must come up

A circle, or a cycle, or a wheel

Home
How can I hope to find you anywhere but here and now?

How many times have you fallen to the bottom,
heard someone lightly step on your grave,
do a dance with sticks and stones on your face?

I ask you to remember a flower
Call to attention a friend's face
The touch of sunlight on your skin
The feel of tears when cries the rain - Om

A circle, or a cycle, or a wheel

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[nagustello]

bellissima

[fractalign]

I would have to say Leila Adu is an acquired taste, she is so different

to anything else i have heard and she has the rare ability to make me my listen

to every word she sings ! it took me a long time to fully appreciate her amazing

talent but it was worth every minute !

[FiYaDivine]

Lovely!!

[kasbahlover]

Can't stop listening to this track. over and over.

[AChozenSunn]

this is my favorite song of yours Leila.

[titanicamber]

Hey Leila! It's Amber! How are you doing? Love the song and video. :) Hope you are doing well and hope to see you soon. Love, Amber

[Drillogicaldrummer]

Beautiful voice.