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17 September 2019 "The Journalists as far as I'm concerned no longer exist". The surprise announcement by Tommaso Paradiso, frontman of the group, comes through some stories on Instagram, a few days after the band's concert at the Circus Maximus. "You just need to know that I've been sick," writes Paradiso. "They were very difficult months; I was silent; I wanted the Circus Maximus to be a big party and not a funeral"."In a few days a new song will be released. It will be released as Tommaso Paradiso. From now on everything I will write and sing will no longer be The Journalists but it will be Tommaso Paradiso", says the frontman of the group announcing a solo career. "It is right that this is so. It was a fantastic adventure that brought us to the Circus Maximus. But you know better than me or like me that the stories in most cases are not eternal," he adds. "I wrote and sang every single note and every single word of everything you have heard so far. I will continue to do it like Tommaso Paradiso," he says, glissando the reasons for the break. "The latter have been very difficult months; I have been silent; I wanted the Circus Maximus to be a big party and not a funeral". And again: "For now it is enough for you to know that I have been ill. And to live you have to feel good, be in harmony, otherwise a dream can become a nightmare".
In recent times there has been talk of tensions within the band, which has emerged - especially with the albums Completamente e Love and with the Riccione smash - as one of the most sensational pop phenomena of the last years of Italian music. After a long apprenticeship in the Roman clubs, Paradiso, Marco Antonio Musella and Marco Primavera invented a sound suspended between songwriting, Venditti, Vasco Rossi, Lucio Dalla, Luca Carboni, Oasis and the most current electronic pop sound, climbing the charts and becoming regulars of radio networks, fully entering that new indie scene that has revitalized the Italian scene.