Sud Sound System

Sud Sound System are the pioneers of raggamuffin and dancehall style, in Salento and in Italy. They performed for the first time outside Salento on January 21, 1989 in the Leoncavallo social center in Milan, although their recording debut dates back to 1991, with the 12-inch Fuecu/T'a sciuta bona. The impact of the band on the Italian music scene was immediately remarkable. Their reggae sound mixed with busy lyrics sung in Salento dialect leads them to live performances, television and radio appearances, up to the Festival of New Author Trends in Recanati. They are the protagonists of a documentary by Renato De Maria and a video by Gianluca Sgalambro, broadcast by the main national TVs. The experience of the SSS also becomes the object of analysis and debates in some Italian universities with the sociologists Georges Lapassade and Piero Fumarola.