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Using the death of Fabrizio De André from cancer on January 11, 1999, Italy lost among its modern singer/songwriters. Influenced from the songwriting of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, De André’s tunes encompassed Genoese folk tunes, French protest/interpersonal commentary, beatnik “blast of awareness” poetry, as well as the soundtracks of …

La Musica Della Mafia may be the name directed at a collective of Calabrian Mafia music artists that wrote and recorded Il Canto Di Malavita. The group began as vigilantes that seen themselves protectors of their fellow Italian natives. Fighting with each other against the corrupt, monarchic guideline that overcame …

Created in 1998 when turntablist DJ Koze and percussionist and singer Cosmic DJ fulfilled up with classically qualified keyboardist Erobique (who experienced also previously performed in jazz and soul rings), International Pony released their initial full-length, We Like Music, in 2002. Their mix of funk and electro led these to …

Italian folk-pop icon Angelo Branduardi was created Feb 12, 1950 within the Milanese countryside in a little town called Cuggioni. Branduardi attempted a few tools before buying acoustic guitar, playing piano at age group six, and violin like a soloist in the Conservatory Niccolo Paganini. He spent a while learning …

Charismatic and captivating, Patty Pravo has flushed through 40 years of Italian pop music, varying her image — initial beat queenie, after that elegant and provoking chanteuse — but never diminishing an exclusive personality. Blessed in Venice 9 Apr, 1948, Nicoletta Strambelli was bred within an incredibly intellectual environment, she …

Jazz pianist Stefano Bollani was created in Milan, Italy, on Dec 5, 1972. He started playing piano as a kid to be able to accompany his performing, but soon focused solely over the instrument, searching for a conservatory in Florence when he was 11. There, he examined both jazz and …

The Italian winner from the 1990 Eurovision Melody Competition, Toto Cutugno was created Salvatore Cutugno on July 7, 1943, within the northern Tescan town of Fosdinovo. A drummer being a youngsters, he considered songwriting in the first ’70s, and continued to compose strikes for such Western european superstars as Joe …

Italian pop singer Syria made a decision to pursue a singing career following studying drama and being confident by Claudio Mattone to take part in San Remo’s Festival in 1995. A season afterwards, Syria released her debut record known as Non Ci Sto, accompanied by 1997’s L’Angelo. That same season, …

Beniamino Gigli was the foremost Italian tenor from the 1920s with the 1940s, possessed of the smooth, lush tone of voice having a lyric sweetness frequently referred to as “honeyed.” He became a Metropolitan Opera celebrity, singing 28 functions there, and was the best heir towards the tenor Enrico Caruso, …

Italian pop crooner Small Tony (given birth to Antonio Ciacci) began his career in 1957 and produced a large number of albums through the entire next 6 decades. His 2008 recording Non Finisce Qui’ (THIS ISN’T the finish) spent weekly in the very best 100 graph, peaking at quantity 61.