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  • Winx Club’s “Superpower” by CLARA: A New Era of Pop Magic Featuring Writing by Dunkan

    Winx Club’s “Superpower”: A New Era of Pop Magic Featuring Writing by Dunkan “Superpower,” the standout pop single from Winx Club: The Magic Is Back, marks a defining moment in the reboot’s musical direction. Performed by rising Italian artist Clara, produced by WOLVS, and co-written by Dunkan, the track takes the classic Winx formula—emotion, transformation, empowerment—and rebuilds it for a global audience. From its opening lines, “Superpower” carries a widescreen, cinematic feel. This reboot doesn’t lean on nostalgia alone—it uses contemporary pop language, sleek production, and a hook built for streaming-era listeners. Clara’s performance moves between vulnerability and self-assured lift,...

  • Sick Budd Shares “Player,” Tapping Joshua and Silent Bob — with Writing Contributions from Dunkan

    Sick Budd Shares “Player,” Tapping Joshua and Silent Bob — with Writing Contributions from Dunkan Italian producer and rapper Sick Budd has released “Player,” a low-lit, tightly constructed single that brings together Joshua and Silent Bob for a three-way exchange. The record lands with a steady pulse and a clipped sense of tension — the kind of track built for late-night headphones more than club volume. The Artists Behind the Record Sick Budd has carved out a lane in Italy’s rap circles through production that leans dark and architectural. Joshua and Silent Bob, both familiar names within the country’s growing...

  • Dunkan Contributes to Shablo’s Manifesto: An Analog Blueprint for Italian Rap’s Next Chapter

    Shablo’s Manifesto: An Analog Blueprint for Italian Rap’s Next Chapter With Manifesto, Shablo delivers a project that feels intentionally out of step with the current Italian rap landscape. While trap continues to dominate the mainstream, this album reaches backward and forward at once—anchored in boom-bap foundations, analog textures, jazz inflections, and a reflective tone rarely explored at this scale. Across Italian media outlets—from Mowmag to Rockit, Radio Italia, Mitomorrow, and Leggo—the album has been recognized for its deliberate artistic identity. Reviewers highlight its analog warmth, its spiritual undertones, and the sense of a producer returning to the fundamentals of his...

  • Dunkan provides writing contribution to Neffa's – “Cuoreapezzi” (feat. Guè & Joshua)

    Neffa – “Cuoreapezzi” (feat. Guè & Joshua) Inside one of the most defining moments of Neffa’s return to rap — and the collaborative writing that shaped it. With Cuoreapezzi, one of the standout tracks on Canerandagio – Parte 1, Neffa stages a return to rap that feels lived-in and emotionally sharpened. After years away from the genre, his voice shows the precision of someone who understands how to carry experience without turning it into nostalgia. Italian press has framed his album as a rare, meaningful comeback — a “double return” that reasserts Neffa’s foundational place in the culture. Neffa’s Verse:...

  • Inside “La Mia Parola”: How Dunkan Helped Shape Shablo’s Sanremo Debut

    Inside “La Mia Parola”: How Dunkan Helped Shape Shablo’s Sanremo Debut When Shablo made his long-awaited debut at the Festival di Sanremo 2025 with La Mia Parola, much of the conversation focused on the power trio of Guè, Joshua, and Tormento. But behind the scenes, the record also carried the imprint of another rising figure in Italian music: Dunkan (Edoardo Medici), credited as one of the song’s writers. Fanpage.it described the track as a “journey through Black and urban tradition,” an “exercise in style” that pulls from hip-hop, soul, and gospel while remaining contemporary in its storytelling. Shablo himself emphasized...

  • Dunkan Talks “La Mia Parola,” Collaboration, and Sanremo’s Creative Energy in New Radio IULM Interview

    Dunkan Talks “La Mia Parola,” Collaboration, and Sanremo’s Creative Energy in New Radio IULM Interview As Sanremo 2025 continues to shape the cultural conversation across Italy, singer, songwriter, and producer Dunkan (Edoardo Medici) joined Radio IULM for an in-depth interview during the third broadcast of GPS – Guida per Sanremo. The conversation offered a rare look behind the creative process of “La Mia Parola”—the street-gospel hybrid written for Shablo and performed onstage by Guè, Tormento, and Joshua. The segment, hosted by Alessandro Sangalli and Penelope Bosio, arrived in the midst of a vibrant Sanremo week marked by live reporting, interviews...