Roberto Vecchioni
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Roberto Vecchioni (Italian pronunciation: [roˈbɛrto vekˈkjoːni]; born 25 June 1943) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and lyricist.[1]
Biography
Vecchioni was born in Carate Brianza, now in the province of Monza and Brianza, to a Neapolitan family. In 1968, he graduated in Classical Literature at the Catholic University of Milan, where he subsequently worked for two years as assistant lecturer of History of Religion. Later he was appointed professor of literature and history at a Milanese High School, an activity that he continued for almost thirty years and that would influence several of his songs.
His career in the Italian music industry began in the late 1960s as songwriter for Italian pop stars such as Ornella Vanoni, Gigliola Cinquetti, Mina, Iva Zanicchi and the band Nuovi Angeli. Vecchioni's first solo album, Parabola was released in 1971. In 1973 he took part in the Sanremo Festival with "L'uomo che si gioca il cielo a dadi". His 1974 LP, Il re non si diverte, won the Best Year's Album Award from the Italian music critic. In 1976 he released Elisir. Vecchioni's breakthrough happened in 1977 with Samarcanda, an album 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 (1978), where the literary citations predominated, and in Robinson (1979), where instead the autobiographical inspiration prevails. The songs "Signor giudice" and "Lettera da Marsala" of the latter work deal with the problems Vecchioni had had in the preceding years: respectively, a charge for marijuana possession (from which he was acquitted) and a dispute with his former record label. The following album, Montecristo, was released indeed by both the old and the new labels.
After Hollywood Hollywood of 1982, whose songs are influenced by the world of cinema, Vecchioni in 1984 released the double LP Il grande sogno ("The Great Dream"), in which he collected new songs together with new versions of his past hits. The title track featured Francesco De Gregori playing blues harp. The LP was accompanied by his first literary attempt, a short book with the same name. Many of the cover of Vecchioni's LPs of this period were created by the famous Italian comic book artist and painter Andrea Pazienza.
While continuing a successful career as a renowned singer-songwriter in the 1980s and the 1990s, Vecchioni spent more time writing. His prose includes the collection Viaggi nel tempo immobile (1996) and the novels Le parole non-portano le cicogne (2000) and Il libraio di Selinunte. He also lectured on the History of Italian Songwriting in a tour lasting two years, and was called to author the Enciclopedia Treccani article about Italian singer-songwriters. His best more recent works include Sogna ragazzo sogna ("Dream, boy, dream") of 1999 and Il lanciatore di coltelli ("The Knife Thrower") of 2002.
On 19 February 2011, he won the 61st Sanremo Music Festival[2] and the "Mia Martini" Critics' Award[3] with the song "Chiamami ancora amore" ("Call me Love again").
Discography
- Parabola (1971)
- Saldi di fine stagione (1972)
- Il re non-si diverte (1974)
- Barbapapà (1975)
- Ipertensione (1975)
- Elisir (1976)
- Samarcanda (1977)
- Robinson (1980)
- Calabuig, stranamore e altri incidenti (1978)
- Montecristo (1980)
- Hollywood Hollywood (1982)
- Il grande sogno (1984)
- Live @ RTSI (1984, live)
- Bei tempi (1985)
- Ippopotami (1986)
- Milady (1989)
- Per amore mio (1991)
- Camper (1992, live collection)
- Blumùn (1993)
- Il cielo capovolto (1995)
- Vecchioni studio collection (1997)
- El bandolero stanco (1997)
- Sogna ragazzo sogna (1999)
- Canzoni e cicogne (2000, live collection)
- Il lanciatore di coltelli (2002)
- Le ballate (2002)
- Rotary Club of Malindi (2004)
- Il contastorie (2005, double live collection)
- Di rabbia e di stelle (2007)
- In Cantus (2009, live collection)
- Chiamami ancora amore (2011)
- Io non-appartengo più (2013)
Bibliography
- Viaggi nel tempo immobile (1996, collection of short novels), Einaudi, Turin
- Le parole non-potrano le cicogne (2000), Einaudi, Turin
- Il libraio di Selinunte (2004), Einaudi, Turin
- Diario di un gatto con gli stivali (2006), Einaudi, Turin
- Di sogni e d'amore (2007), Frassinelli, Segrate
- Volevo. Ed erano voli (2008), Pescecapone, Lecce
- Scacco a Dio (2009), Einaudi, Turin
References
- ^ "Roberto Vecchioni show all'ospedale - Ravenna - Corriere di Romagna". Corriereromagna.it (in Italian). Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Festival Sanremo 2011, vince Roberto Vecchioni; 2° posto per Emma e i Modà e 3° Al Bano - Riviera24.it". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Festival Sanremo 2011, Roberto Vecchioni vince il Premio della Critica Mia Martini - Riviera24.it". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
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Preceded by Valerio Scanu with "Per tutte le volte che..." | Sanremo Music Festival Winner 2011 | Succeeded by |
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- Nilla Pizzi ("Grazie dei fiori")
- Nilla Pizzi ("Vola colomba")
- Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")
- Giorgio Consolini / Gino Latilla ("Tutte le mamme")
- Claudio Villa / Tullio Pane ("Buongiorno tristezza")
- Franca Raimondi ("Aprite le finestre")
- Claudio Villa / Nunzio Gallo ("Corde della mia chitarra")
- Domenico Modugno / Johnny Dorelli ("Nel blu, dipinto di blu")
- Domenico Modugno / Johnny Dorelli ("Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)")
- Tony Dallara / Renato Rascel ("Romantica")
- Betty Curtis / Luciano Tajoli ("Al di là")
- Domenico Modugno / Claudio Villa ("Addio, addio")
- Tony Renis / Emilio Pericoli ("Uno per tutte")
- Gigliola Cinquetti / Patricia Carli ("Non ho l'età")
- Bobby Solo / The New Christy Minstrels ("Se piangi, se ridi")
- Domenico Modugno / Gigliola Cinquetti ("Dio, come ti amo")
- Claudio Villa / Iva Zanicchi ("Non pensare a me")
- Sergio Endrigo / Roberto Carlos ("Canzone per te")
- Bobby Solo / Iva Zanicchi ("Zingara")
- Adriano Celentano / Claudia Mori ("Chi non lavora non fa l'amore")
- Nada / Nicola Di Bari ("Il cuore è uno zingaro")
- Nicola Di Bari ("I giorni dell'arcobaleno")
- Peppino di Capri ("Un grande amore e niente più")
- Iva Zanicchi ("Ciao cara come stai?")
- Gilda ("Ragazza del sud")
- Peppino di Capri ("Non lo faccio più")
- Homo Sapiens ("Bella da morire")
- Matia Bazar ("...e dirsi ciao")
- Mino Vergnaghi ("Amare")
- Toto Cutugno ("Solo noi")
- Alice ("Per Elisa")
- Riccardo Fogli ("Storie di tutti i giorni")
- Tiziana Rivale ("Sarà quel che sarà")
- Al Bano and Romina Power ("Ci sarà")
- Ricchi e Poveri ("Se m'innamoro")
- Eros Ramazzotti ("Adesso tu")
- Gianni Morandi, Umberto Tozzi and Enrico Ruggeri ("Si può dare di più")
- Massimo Ranieri ("Perdere l'amore")
- Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali ("Ti lascerò")
- Pooh ("Uomini soli")
- Riccardo Cocciante ("Se stiamo insieme")
- Luca Barbarossa ("Portami a ballare")
- Enrico Ruggeri ("Mistero")
- Aleandro Baldi ("Passerà")
- Giorgia ("Come saprei")
- Ron and Tosca ("Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni")
- Jalisse ("Fiumi di parole")
- Annalisa Minetti ("Senza te o con te")
- Anna Oxa ("Senza pietà")
- Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel ("Sentimento")
- Elisa ("Luce (Tramonti a nord est)")
- Matia Bazar ("Messaggio d'amore")
- Alexia ("Per dire di no")
- Marco Masini ("L'uomo volante")
- Francesco Renga ("Angelo")
- Povia ("Vorrei avere il becco")
- Simone Cristicchi ("Ti regalerò una rosa")
- Giò Di Tonno and Lola Ponce ("Colpo di fulmine")
- Marco Carta ("La forza mia")
- Valerio Scanu ("Per tutte le volte che...")
- Roberto Vecchioni ("Chiamami ancora amore")
- Emma Marrone ("Non è l'inferno")
- Marco Mengoni ("L'essenziale")
- Arisa ("Controvento")
- Il Volo ("Grande amore")
- Stadio ("Un giorno mi dirai")
- Francesco Gabbani ("Occidentali's Karma")
- Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro ("Non mi avete fatto niente")
- Mahmood ("Soldi")
- Diodato ("Fai rumore")
- Måneskin ("Zitti e buoni")
- Mahmood and Blanco ("Brividi")
- Marco Mengoni ("Due vite")
- Angelina Mango ("La noia")