Author, composer and performer, Jean-Paul Poletti embodies a will of stone that plunges its roots in the provinces of the Vecanais and the Alta Rocca. Now he has taken root in Sartène, city overhanging the Rizzanese Valley, and opening on the gulf of Propriano, that Mérimée described as the more Corsican city in Corsica. Sartène, where in 1987 he created the Granitu Maggiore School of Singing, that he has been managing since that time.

      Jean-Paul Poletti soon revealed his poetic vocation, since at the age of 10, he was already composing some ritornelli, that he sang while accompanying himself on the guitar. Two masters, fond of Cantu Nustrale, introduced him to musical composition and conviced him to leave for Italia and increase his knowledge. Until 1970, he had been the hard-working student of the counterpoint and harmony classes, and of leading chorals of the famous Scholi Cantarum of Florence and Sienne.

      Once back in Corsica, Jean-paul Poletti began to apply himself to revive the precious polyphonic and musical heritage of the island. In addition to his searches and work of composition, his fight against the loss of culture and creative identity never came loose. He played an essential role in the process of cultural reacquirement.

      Today, Jean-Paul Poletti really devotes himself to the polyphonic art, which is at the top of oral tradition, both spiritual and popular, and he intends to open this art, adapting it to the most diverse shapes of orchestration and instruments use.

      In 1995, he created The Male Voice Choir of Sartène, made up of 7 men, and with this choir he invented musical spaces of classical form, fed with the past but in a contemporary style of inspiration. With the choir, the dream that the Mediterranean polyphony can be engraved in the story of classical music is no longer an utopia.