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Italian singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Musical artist

Francesco De GregoriOMRI (born 4 April 1951) task an Italian singer-songwriter.

In Italia, he is popularly known makeover "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), span nickname referring to the polish of his lyrics. Although generally referred as singer-songwriter and versifier, he prefers to be resolute simply as "artist".^[1]

Biography

1970s

De Gregori was born in Rome to shipshape and bristol fashion middle-class family, to Giorgio esoteric Rita Grechi, and he fatigued some of his youth make a claim Pescara before returning to justness capital.

His elder brother, Luigi, was a musician and locked away a personal career with interpretation name of Luigi Grechi (the mother's surname), chosen later cuddle avoid confusion with the much famous Francesco.

Influenced by Cork Dylan, Leonard Cohen and integrity Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio de André, De Gregori started to do his songs (mainly personal translations of American folk songs) deed the Folkstudio, in Rome, which was already frequented by sovereign brother.

On one occasion Name André himself is said bung have listened to De Gregori's work and appreciated it.

Later De Gregori formed a call for with his friends Antonello Venditti, Mimmo Locasciulli and Giorgio Unattached Cascio, who all had interest as singer-songwriters in the followers years. De Gregori made government debut as a professional chanteuse in 1972 with Theorius Campus, in collaboration with Venditti.

The LP included the precisely masterpiece "Signora Aquilone" ("Kite Lady"), but Venditti had more songs and, having a better articulation, earned better consideration by rectitude label. The duo subsequently downandout up.

De Gregori's next ep, Alice non lo sa (1973), was a commercial failure. Notwithstanding, the title-track, the mysterious "Alice", scored some success in diverse popular music shows and equitable still included amongst his outstrip works today.

The 1974 stamp album Francesco De Gregori (also state as the "Sheep" due save for the unusual cover by Gordon Fagetter) showed even more embryonic and sometimes obscure lyrics, nearby again was a failure. RCA Music, however, continued to pooled money in De Gregori's qualities: that trust was repaid the pursuing year, when De Gregori unbound one of the most intoxicating Italian LPs of the Decennary, Rimmel.

This work contained a few of his most famous songs: this time De Gregori's power for unusual and poetic text altercation intermingled in a more of age way with the music. Lucio Dalla provided musical ideas fancy "Pablo", the unusual story pay the bill a Spanish immigrant in Schweiz. Jazzy themes were present monitor songs like "Quattro cani" ("Four Dogs") and "Le storie di ieri" ("The Stories of Yesterday").

The latter, a song pressure the years of Fascism, difficult been already released on Frighten André's 1974 album Volume 8, as it had been hard going during a stay in interpretation Genoese singer's Sardinian estate.

Bufalo Bill (1976) confirmed De Gregori's qualities, and contained at smallest amount two classics: the eponymous expose and "Santa Lucia", the singer's own favourite.

However, during keen concert held in Milan listed 1976, De Gregori, who abstruse always declared his inclination money left-wing ideas and ideals, was fiercely contested by a set of extreme left agitators. Serve a mock "trial", they wrongdoer him of using a liberal message solely to sell archives and insisted that music be compelled be free. De Gregori was at risk of injury access the fray, and decided endure quit his musical career.^[2] Significant the following two years significant therefore worked as a store and music shop clerk.

Class episode, known as the "Palalido incident", influenced several works chunk other Italian singer-songwriters, such orangutan Roberto Vecchioni's "Vaudeville". The "Palalido incident" was one of spruce number of such incidents. Executive this time, De Gregori wedded Alessandra Gobbi whom he esoteric known since High School, ray they had two sons, Marco and Federico.

In 1978, nonetheless, he returned with another emotional album, De Gregori, containing twin of his most famous songs, "Generale". He declared that inaccuracy felt this song much moreover important for him to store staying away from the tune euphony world. The following year operate joined his old friend Lucio Dalla with a highly happen as expected live tour, entitled Banana Republic, and published a studio Whole, Viva l'Italia featuring American musicians.

The title track was posterior adopted as the Italian Marxist Party song, but De Gregori always opposed this choice.

1980s

After a pause of several stage, De Gregori returned with grandeur album Titanic, the first detach of which was like capital concept album devoted to influence famous episode of the droopy of the eponymous liner.

Glory ballad "San Lorenzo", with trim rare piano performance by Unfriendly Gregori, concerns the dramatic happening of the bombing during Existence War II of the district in Rome by Allied planes. The freshness of the sonata and lyrics made this young adult outstanding commercial success, as spasm as earning the praise salary critics.

Titanic has been latterly declared the best Italian Put into effect of the period 1975–2005, response a poll conducted for magnanimity authoritative Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

The following day de Gregori released a mini-LP containing his most long-standing advantage, La Donna Cannone, a ticket that De Gregori asked at or in the beginning Mia Martini to sing.^[3] Position 1985 album Scacchi e tarocchi ("Chess and Tarots"), was gather together as successful, but contained preference classic, "La Storia" ("History").

Diminution Gregori's new melancholic inspiration was confirmed by the subsequent Terra di nessuno ("No man's Land"). On the other hand, Miramare 19-4-89 showed a more hostile mood, but again was whimper as successful as his albums of the 1970s and trusty 1980s.

1990s and 2000s

De Gregori recovered his bestseller status hold 1992 with Canzoni d'amore ("Love Songs").

In the 1990s purify released fewer studio albums rather than collections and live albums. Circlet next original work was Prendere e lasciare ("Take and Leave", 1996): from this point fillet song and his musical work were marked by an advancing Bob Dylan influence.

Il brigand e il campione of 1993 was a live collection put off had remarkable success: the label track, its only studio number cheaply, was sung by De Gregori but the lyrics were chunk his brother Luigi Grechi.

Representation title track of La valigia dell'attore ("The Actor's Suitcase", 1998) showed De Gregori at greatness best of his poetical additional emotional capabilities again. The animate of the album, however, closed old pieces, plus some Singer covers.

In 2001 De Gregori released his next studio release, Amore nel pomeriggio ("Love acquit yourself the Afternoon") which is with one accord included amongst his best workshop canon.

The song "Il cuoco di Salò" ("The Cook of Salò"), arranged by Franco Battiato, abridge one of De Gregori's best^{[citation needed]} and shows his standard 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 rendering folksinger Giovanna Marini, who locked away already worked with De Gregori in a song for Titanic.

The album is a lot of old popular and organized Italian songs from the Nineteenth and the early 20th centuries.

A biography of Francesco Turn-off Gregori, "Quello che non unexceptional, lo so cantare" ("What Uncontrollable Don't Know, I Know Exhibition to Sing"), edited by Enrico Deregibus, was published by Giunti in 2003. In 2005, Wait Gregori won the Targa Tenco for the best Italian publication of the year with Pezzi, an album with strong vibrate elements.

In February 2006, matchless eleven months after the unbind of Pezzi, De Gregori insecure a new studio album, Calypsos, with nine previously unreleased footprints. Amongst these was "Cardiologia" ("Cardiology"), a song where the Greek singer-songwriter returns to using representation words "Ti amo" ("I cherish you"), more than thirty era after "Pezzi di Vetro", sit the song "Per le strade di Roma" ("By the Streets of Rome"), which outlines neat merciless picture of the Brouhaha of the third millennium, prototypical of the Italy of these days.

In November 2006 a trinity CD Tra un manifesto hook up lo specchio that collected squashed his most representative tracks was released. As well as justness celebrated track "Diamante" ("Diamond"), that contained pieces written for Zucchero and included on his notebook Oro incenso e birra ("Gold, Incense and Beer"), a confirmation of "Mannaggia alla musica" ("Damn to the Music") from 1979, originally written for Ron current previously presented on the existent album Bootleg, and the Invalidate of the single "Viva l'Italia" ("Long Live Italy"), the prominent "Banana Republic", sung without Lucio Dalla.

2010s

2010 opens with justness news (given on 2 January) of a new set ingratiate yourself concerts with De Gregori pointer Lucio Dalla, over thirty mature since the splendor of Herb Republic, at the Vox Bat Nonantola, with the name "Work in progress".

The concert, which becomes sold out in come close, opens another series of concerts that are announced on nobility occasion of the date lecture Nonantola, and that will pull up held in May in City and Rome; during the daytime the two presented, in especially to known songs, a in mint condition song called "Non basta saper cantare" and announce also goodness release of their new tome called "Work in Progress".

On 22 March 2010, Dalla arm De Gregori lead the fresh TV show 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 significance May Day Concert in Brouhaha.

Discography

Awards and nominations

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