Corsica is a land with deep mountain gorges that pierce the blue Mediterranean Sea at the Golfe de Porto. The Corsican culture is deeply rooted in its national identity, and the brothers Alain and Jean-Francois Bernardini, known as I Muvrini, are a proud part of this heritage. Islanders remember seeing the brothers perched on makeshift stages singing their first polyphonies, and some of their admirers from those early days are proud to still have in their possession the 45 rpm recording by Canta U Populu Corsu on which the brothers sang at the request of their father, a poet and singer who passed away in 1977.
In the beginning the group managed and financed themselves, recording at their own expense, creating their own label, and giving hundreds of concerts around the island, offering free entrance for those under 15. Additionally, with the desire to increase awareness of their ancestral tradition, I Muvrini participated actively in the creation of schools for the teaching of Corsican singing.
In the wake of an ever-growing success, they began a string of performances at the Printemps de Bourges festival, at Bobino, and in Brittany. In the summer of 1993, their performances at home played to a third of the islandÆs population. In turn they performed at sold-out concerts at the Zenith Theater and Bercy Hall in Paris.
Among their fervent admirers, they count Lou Reed, Sting, Michel Fugain and Florent Pagny.
