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You ask to a German tourist that Naples has never visited to hum you a Neapolitan melody and you will see that miraculously from her lips the notes will go out, you also cripple, of 'or my sun. Power of the myth that surrounds this song, mystery of the charm that accompanies the words and the music of a melody written at the end of last century and that it has remained the symbol in the Naples that celebrates and it exalts its virtues. Perhaps" ' Or my sun", writing to the beginning of the century, is the neapolitan song more known and its more sung all over the world. Many ignores however that the music was composed elsewhere. In fact its author, Eduardo Of Capua, was around for the world with his father Giacobbe, one of the most known violinists to the epoch. During a standstill to Odessa in Ukraine, a morning, behind the glasses of the window of the hotel, noticing the blinding brightness of the Ukrainian sun, composed the notes of this song date its from the lyricist Capurro to Naples before his departure. With this aura of mystery and its native "oriental" the song, then immediately diffused to Naples became the melodious myth that today all we know. 'Or my sun to be catchy, for its indefiniteness, that take it to have sung from all the people of the world, 'also it has been during the centuries, terrestrial of musical experimentations. Of the melody numerous versions are known in all the musical kinds. Memorable they have been the versions jazz that they have amplified its ability of involvement. But the mythical Elvis Presley was also ventured with the notes of Capurro and Of Capua. Don't forget the lyric versions: a memorable interpretation that tuned up by the three ways. they have been in fact Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti to engrave some years by now and to constantly insert it now in their tour .