De Gregori & Venditti notte magica all'Arena
| Francesco De Gregori | |
|---|---|
 Francesco De Gregori in 2008 | |
| Background data | |
| Born | (1951-04-04) 4 April 1951 Rome, Italy |
| Genres | Folk rock |
| Occupation(south) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument(southward) | Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica |
| Years active | 1972–nowadays |
| Labels | RCA Italian republic, CBS |
| Website | www.francescodegregori.net |
Francesco De Gregori OMRI (built-in 4 Apr 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italian republic, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics.
He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet, although he prefers to be identified merely as "artist".[i]
Biography [edit]
1970s [edit]
De Gregori was born in Rome to a middle-form family, to Giorgio and Rita Grechi, and he spent some of his youth in Pescara before returning to the capital. His elder brother, Luigi, was a musician and had a personal career with the proper noun of Luigi Grechi (the female parent'due south surname), chosen later to avoid confusion with the more than famous Francesco.
Influenced past Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and the Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio de André, De Gregori started to perform his songs (mainly personal translations of American folk songs) at the Folkstudio, in Rome, which was already frequented by his brother. On one occasion De André himself is said to have listened to De Gregori's work and appreciated it.
Later on De Gregori formed a band with his friends Antonello Venditti, Mimmo Locasciulli and Giorgio Lo Cascio, who all had success as vocalizer-songwriters in the following years. De Gregori made his debut as a professional vocalizer in 1972 with Theorius Campus, in collaboration with Venditti. The LP included the early masterpiece "Signora Aquilone" ("Kite Lady"), but Venditti had more songs and, having a better voice, earned better consideration by the characterization. The duo afterward bankrupt up.
De Gregori's adjacent album, Alice non lo sa (1973), was a commercial failure. Even so, the title-track, the mysterious "Alice", scored some success in several popular music shows and is notwithstanding included amongst his all-time works today. The 1974 anthology Francesco De Gregori (also known as the "Sheep" due to the unusual cover past Gordon Fagetter) showed even more experimental and sometimes obscure lyrics, and again was a failure. RCA Music, however, continued to trust in De Gregori'southward qualities: this trust was repaid the post-obit year, when De Gregori released 1 of the most successful Italian LPs of the 1970s, Rimmel. This piece of work contained several of his most famous songs: this time De Gregori's talent for unusual and poetic lyrics intermingled in a more mature style with the music. Lucio Dalla provided musical ideas for "Pablo", the unusual story of a Spanish immigrant in Switzerland. Jazzy themes were present in songs similar "Quattro cani" ("Four Dogs") and "Le storie di ieri" ("The Stories of Yesterday"). The latter, a vocal almost the years of Fascism, had been already released on De André'due south 1974 album Volume 8, as it had been written during a stay in the Genoese singer'south Sardinian estate.
Bufalo Bill (1976) confirmed De Gregori'south qualities, and contained at least two classics: the eponymous song and "Santa Lucia", the vocaliser'southward own favourite. However, during a concert held in Milan in 1976, De Gregori, who had always alleged his inclination to left-fly ideas and ideals, was fiercely contested by a grouping of farthermost left agitators. In a mock "trial", they defendant him of using a left-wing message solely to sell records and insisted that music should be costless. De Gregori was at risk of injury in the fray, and decided to quit his musical career.[2] During the following 2 years he therefore worked as a bookstore and music shop clerk. The episode, known as the "Palalido incident", influenced several works by other Italian vocalizer-songwriters, such every bit Roberto Vecchioni'south "Vaudeville". The "Palalido incident" was one of a number of such incidents. At this time, De Gregori married Alessandra Gobbi whom he had known since High Schoolhouse, and they had two sons, Marco and Federico.
In 1978, even so, he returned with another inspired album, De Gregori, containing one of his most famous songs, "Generale". He declared that he felt this song much also important for him to proceed staying away from the music earth. The following year he joined his former friend Lucio Dalla with a highly successful live tour, entitled Banana Republic, and published a studio LP, Viva fifty'Italia featuring American musicians. The title rail was later on adopted as the Italian Socialist Party vocal, merely De Gregori always opposed this choice.
1980s [edit]
Later a pause of several years, De Gregori returned with the album Titanic, the first part of which was like a concept album devoted to the famous episode of the sinking of the eponymous liner. The ballad "San Lorenzo", with a rare pianoforte performance by De Gregori, concerns the dramatic episode of the bombing during Earth War II of the quarter in Rome by Allied planes. The freshness of the music and lyrics fabricated this an outstanding commercial success, also equally earning the praise of critics. Titanic has been recently declared the best Italian LP of the menstruation 1975–2005, in a poll conducted for the authoritative Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.
The post-obit year de Gregori released a mini-LP containing his most long-standing success, La Donna Cannone. The 1985 album Scacchi e tarocchi ("Chess and Tarots"), was not as successful, but independent another archetype, "La Storia" ("History"). De Gregori's new melancholic inspiration was confirmed by the subsequent Terra di nessuno ("No man'south State"). On the other hand, Miramare 19-four-89 showed a more biting mood, but over again was not as successful as his albums of the 1970s and early 1980s.
1990s and 2000s [edit]
De Gregori in concert, March 2008
De Gregori recovered his bestseller status in 1992 with Canzoni d'affection ("Love Songs"). In the 1990s he released fewer studio albums than collections and live albums. His side by side original work was Prendere e lasciare ("Take and Leave", 1996): from this signal his vocal and his musical performance were marked past an increasing Bob Dylan influence.
Il bandito e il campione of 1993 was a alive collection that had remarkable success: the title track, its merely studio song, was sung past De Gregori merely the lyrics were past his brother Luigi Grechi. The championship track of La valigia dell'attore ("The Actor's Suitcase", 1998) showed De Gregori at the best of his poetical and emotional capabilities again. The balance of the album, nevertheless, contained sometime pieces, plus some Dylan covers.
In 2001 De Gregori released his next studio album, Affection nel pomeriggio ("Beloved in the Afternoon") which is unanimously included amongst his best works. The song "Il cuoco di Salò" ("The Cook of Salò"), arranged by Franco Battiato, is i of De Gregori'south best[ citation needed ] and shows his typical attention to "everyday" figures (including outcasts and underdogs) and lives while dealing with historical themes.
Il fischio del vapore ("The Whistle of the Steam", 2002) was a collaboration with the folksinger Giovanna Marini, who had already worked with De Gregori in a song for Titanic. The album is a collection of old popular and social Italian songs from the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
A biography of Francesco De Gregori, "Quello che non so, lo so cantare" ("What I Don't Know, I Know How to Sing"), edited past Enrico Deregibus, was published past Giunti in 2003. In 2005, De Gregori won the Targa Tenco for the best Italian album of the year with Pezzi, an album with potent stone elements. In February 2006, only eleven months after the release of Pezzi, De Gregori released a new studio album, Calypsos, with nine previously unreleased tracks. Amidst these was "Cardiologia" ("Cardiology"), a song where the Roman singer-songwriter returns to using the words "Ti amo" ("I dear yous"), more than than thirty years after "Pezzi di Vetro", and the song "Per le strade di Roma" ("Past the Streets of Rome"), which outlines a merciless moving picture of the Rome of the third millennium, archetypical of the Italy of today.
In November 2006 a triple CD Tra un manifesto eastward lo specchio that nerveless together his nearly representative tracks was released. Also as the celebrated track "Diamante" ("Diamond"), this contained pieces written for Zucchero and included on his album Oro incenso e birra ("Gilt, Incense and Beer"), a demo of "Mannaggia alla musica" ("Damn to the Music") from 1979, originally written for Ron and previously presented on the live album Bootleg, and the B-side of the single "Viva l'Italia" ("Long Live Italy"), the celebrated "Banana Republic", sung without Lucio Dalla.
2010s [edit]
2010 opens with the news (given on ii January) of a new set of concerts with De Gregori and Lucio Dalla, over 30 years since the splendor of Banana Republic, at the Vocalism Club Nonantola, with the name "Piece of work in progress".
The concert, which becomes sold out in advance, opens another series of concerts that are appear on the occasion of the engagement of Nonantola, and that will be held in May in Milan and Rome; during the evening the 2 presented, in addition to known songs, a new vocal called "Non basta saper cantare" and announce besides the release of their new anthology called "Work in Progress".
On 22 March 2010, Dalla and De Gregori atomic number 82 the new TV bear witness on Rai 2, entitled Due, during which they perform individually and in duets, covers and songs from their repertoires. On 1 May 2011 the duo played at the May Day Concert in Rome.
Discography [edit]
- Theorius Campus (1972, with Antonello Venditti)
- Alice non-lo sa (1973)
- Francesco De Gregori (1974)
- Rimmel (1975)
- Bufalo Bill (1976)
- De Gregori (1978)
- Banana Commonwealth (1979, with Lucio Dalla, live)
- Viva l'Italian republic (1979)
- Titanic (1982)
- La donna cannone (1983, Qdisc)
- Scacchi e tarocchi (1985)
- Terra di nessuno (1987)
- Miramare 19-4-89 (1989)
- Catcher in the Sky (1990, live)
- Niente da capire (1990, live)
- Musica leggera (1990, live)
- Canzoni d'amore (1992)
- Il bandito due east il campione (1993, alive)
- Homemade (1994, live)
- Prendere e lasciare (1996)
- La valigia dell'attore (1997, alive)
- Bend nella memoria (1998, collection)
- Amore nel pomeriggio (2001)
- Fuoco amico (2001, alive)
- Il fischio del vapore (2002, with Giovanna Marini)
- Mix (2003, collection)
- Pezzi (2005)
- Calypsos (2006)
- Left & Correct - Documenti dal vivo (2007, live)
- Per Brevità Chiamato Artista (2008)
- Piece of work in Progress (2010, live, with Lucio Dalla)
- Pubs & Clubs - Live@The Identify (2012, live)
- Sulla strada (2012)
- Oggi (2013, collection)
- Sulla strada - express edition (2013)
- Vivavoce (2014)
- De Gregori canta Bob Dylan – Amore east furto (2015)
Awards and nominations [edit]
| Year | Honour | Nomination | Work | Upshot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Targa Tenco | Best Album[ citation needed ] | Terra di nessuno | Won |
| 1989 | Best Album[ citation needed ] | Mira Mare nineteen.4.89 | Won | |
| 1998 | Best Song[ citation needed ] | "La valigia dell'attore" | Won | |
| 1999 | Best Vocalist (with Giovanna Marini) [ citation needed ] | Il fischio del vapore | Won | |
| 2005 | Best Anthology[ citation needed ] | Pezzi | Won | |
| 2013 | Wind Music Awards | Anthology Award (for 30.000 copies sold) [ citation needed ] | Sulla Strada | Won |
| Targa Tenco | Album of the Year[iii] | Pending |
References [edit]
- ^ Vincenzo Mollica (presenter) (13 October 2008). Francesco De Gregori, per brevità chiamato artista [Francesco De Gregori, for brevity purposes called "artist"]. Speciale TG1 (Boob tube production) (in Italian). Rome: RAI. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
- ^ Mario Luzzatto Fegiz (iii April 1976). "De Gregori insultato due east «processato»" [De Gregori insulted and "tried"]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Milan. p. 15.
- ^ "Targhe Tenco: De Gregori, Fabi e Guccini in finale" (in Italian). Radio Italia Solo Musica Italiana. 17 September 2013. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
External links [edit]
- Francesco De Gregori at IMDb
- (in Italian) Official site of Francesco De Gregori
- (in Italian) Buonanotte Fiorellino
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_De_Gregori
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