Ninna nanna - Pink Martini ft. China Forbes | Live from Portland - 2020

Want to see Pink Martini live? 2023 TOUR tickets are on sale now at: Performed and filmed at Pink Martini’s World Headquarters in Portland, Oregon, in September 2020, while the band was unable to tour due to the pandemic. “Ninna nanna“ is an original song written in the Neapolitan language by the band’s friends Alba Clemente and Massimo Audiello. Originally heard on the band’s fourth studio album “Splendor in the Grass“ (in two different versions), the song was recently featured in the second season of the HBO hit show “The White Lotus.“ “Ninna nanna“ is a song about a sleeping sailor, and the mermaid who loves him, and the arrangement by Thomas Lauderdale takes melodic inspiration from “Swedish Rhapsody #1 (Midsommarvaka)“ by Hugo Alfvén. This performance features lead singer China Forbes, with Dan Faehnle on guitar, Nicholas Crosa on violin, and bandleader Thomas Lauderdale on piano. NEAPOLITAN