Francesco De Gregori

Blessed in 1951 in Rome, vocalist/songwriter Francesco De Gregori was raised hearing and getting inspired by American music artists Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in addition to Italian musician Fabrizio De André. It had been the last mentioned who noticed De Gregori documenting songs in a well-known studio room in Rome, and was impressed more than enough to began assisting the young vocalist. In 1972, after De Gregori agreed upon to IT, Theorius Campus, an LP with Antonello Venditti, premiered. Unfortunately, critics had been unimpressed using the record, a sentiment that continuing through De Gregori’s 1973 single debut, Alice Non Lo Sa, and its own 1974 self-titled follow-up. Achievement finally was included with another year’s Rimmel, which demonstrated off the musician’s maturing, reflective, and smart lyrics over musical help from Lucio Dalla, amongst others. In 1976 Bufalo Costs premiered, but while touring in Milan in 1977, De Gregori was verbally attacked by way of a group of severe left-wingers who accused the musician of stimulating capitalism and offering out. Departing the stage in tears, he ended recording, choosing to operate instead being a bookseller, however in 1978 he came back towards the Italian music globe with De Gregori, an record that included “Generale,” a monitor that could become among his most beloved and something that your composer sensed was too great to not show the general public. A tour with Dalla along with a then-unknown Ron created the 1979 recording Banana Republic. Another 15 years noticed the discharge of a small number of fresh studio records, like the 1982 masterpiece Titanic and 1992’s Canzoni d’Amore. After spending another few years like a journalist for the newspapers L’Unit? , De Gregori, who was simply nicknamed “Il Principe,” or “The Prince,” for his introverted, occasionally haughty types of coping with the press, returned to music with Prendere e Lasciare in 1996 as well as the critically acclaimed Amore Nel Pomeriggio in 2001. In 2002 he participated inside a tour with Pino Daniele, Ron, and Fiorella Mannoia and in addition collaborated with folksinger Giovanna Marini on Il Fischio del Vapore, a assortment of older Italian well-known and protest tunes. Three years later on the rock-oriented Pezzi premiered, and Calypsos arrived in 2006.