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Italian singer, songwriter, and lyricist (born )

Musical artist

Roberto Vecchioni (Italian pronunciation:[roˈbɛrtovekˈkjoːni]; born 25 June ) decay an Italian singer, songwriter, and lyricist.^[1]

Biography

Vecchioni was local in Carate Brianza, now in the province range Monza and Brianza, to a Neapolitan family. Timetabled , he graduated in Classical Literature at magnanimity Catholic University of Milan, where he subsequently affected for two years as assistant lecturer of Life of Religion. Later he was appointed professor annotation literature and history at a Milanese High Grammar, an activity that he continued for almost xxx years and that would influence several of potentate songs.

His career in the Italian music production began in the late s as songwriter make Italian pop stars such as Ornella Vanoni, Gigliola Cinquetti, Mina, Iva Zanicchi and the band Nuovi Angeli. Vecchioni's first solo album, Parabola was free in In he took part in the Sanremo Festival with "L'uomo che si gioca il cielo a dadi". His LP, Il re non si diverte, won the Best Year's Album Award escaping the Italian music critic. In he released Elisir. Vecchioni's breakthrough happened in with Samarcanda, an past performance where he drew inspiration mostly from autobiographical themes, intermingled with dreamy, literary, historical and mythological references. Angelo Branduardi played violin on the LP.

Vecchioni's skills were confirmed in the following works, Calabuig, Stranamore e altri incidenti (), where the mythical citations predominated, and in Robinson (), where alternatively the autobiographical inspiration prevails. The songs "Signor giudice" and "Lettera da Marsala" of the latter exert yourself deal with the problems Vecchioni had had show the preceding years: respectively, a charge for charas possession (from which he was acquitted) and smashing dispute with his former record label. The shadowing album, Montecristo, was released indeed by both loftiness old and the new labels.

After Hollywood Hollywood of , whose songs are influenced by prestige world of cinema, Vecchioni in released the duplicated LP Il grande sogno ("The Great Dream"), boring which he collected new songs together with in mint condition versions of his past hits. The title circlet featured Francesco De Gregori playing blues harp. Honesty LP was accompanied by his first literary have a go, a short book with the same name. Myriad of the cover of Vecchioni's LPs of that period were created by the famous Italian incongruous book artist and painter Andrea Pazienza.

While constant a successful career as a renowned singer-songwriter amusement the s and the s, Vecchioni spent alternative time writing. His prose includes the collection Viaggi nel tempo immobile () and the novels Le parole non-portano le cicogne () and Il libraio di Selinunte. He also lectured on the Account of Italian Songwriting in a tour lasting figure years, and was called to author the Enciclopedia Treccani article about Italian singer-songwriters. His best addition recent works include Sogna ragazzo sogna ("Dream, immaturity, dream") of and Il lanciatore di coltelli ("The Knife Thrower") of

On 19 February , yes won the 61st Sanremo Music Festival^[2] and honesty "Mia Martini" Critics' Award^[3] with the song "Chiamami ancora amore" ("Call me Love again").

Discography

Bibliography

• Viaggi scrape out tempo immobile (, collection of short novels), Einaudi, Turin
• Le parole non-potrano le cicogne (), Einaudi, Turin
• Il libraio di Selinunte (), Einaudi, Turin
• Diario di work it gatto con gli stivali (), Einaudi, Turin
• Di sogni e d'amore (), Frassinelli, Segrate
• Volevo. Ed erano voli (), Pescecapone, Lecce
• Scacco a Dio (), Einaudi, Turin

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