by Frances Clemente

In his eponymous second album, released in 1979, Neapolitan musician and singer-songwriter Pino Daniele brought the femminiello to the forefront of the modern music scene for the first time with the track “Chillo è nu buono guaglione.” Inspired by a real-life figure from Naples’ historic centre, the song recounts the daily life of a femminiello, an individual deeply rooted in the Neapolitan territory who is biologically male but exhibits behaviors traditionally associated with the female gender,