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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

‘I was stunned’: man claims Florence karaoke bar banned Neapolitan song

Landscape picture of the city of Naples
Neapolitan is commonly spoken in Naples (pictured) and the wider Campania region. Photograph: Ivan Nesterov/Alamy

A debate over linguistic and cultural discrimination has erupted in Italy after a man was allegedly banned from singing a Neapolitan song at a karaoke bar in Florence.

Pasquale Abbatiello, a 26-year-old PhD student from Benevento in the southern Campania region, was in the Tuscan capital with friends on New Year’s Day when they decided to toast 2025 with drinks and karaoke at a bar in the centre.

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