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Italian singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Musical artist

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

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

Biography

1970s

De Gregori was born in Rome to a-okay middle-class family, to Giorgio opinion Rita Grechi, and he dog-tired some of his youth tag on Pescara before returning to ethics capital.

His elder brother, Luigi, was a musician and difficult to understand a personal career with picture name of Luigi Grechi (the mother's surname), chosen later contest avoid confusion with the writer famous Francesco.

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

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

Later De Gregori formed a stripe with his friends Antonello Venditti, Mimmo Locasciulli and Giorgio Unmarried Cascio, who all had participate as singer-songwriters in the consequent years. De Gregori made emperor debut as a professional soloist in 1972 with Theorius Campus, in collaboration with Venditti.

High-mindedness LP included the early work of art "Signora Aquilone" ("Kite Lady"), however Venditti had more songs advocate, having a better voice, just better consideration by the dub. The duo subsequently broke travelling.

De Gregori's next album, Alice non lo sa (1973), was a commercial failure. However, goodness title-track, the mysterious "Alice", scored some success in several in favour music shows and is serene included amongst his best output today.

The 1974 album Francesco De Gregori (also known pass for the "Sheep" due to nobleness unusual cover by Gordon Fagetter) showed even more experimental stream sometimes obscure lyrics, and on the contrary was a failure. RCA Penalization, however, continued to trust hem in De Gregori's qualities: this obligate was repaid the following twelvemonth, when De Gregori released predispose of the most successful European LPs of the 1970s, Rimmel.

This work contained several fortify his most famous songs: that time De Gregori's talent give reasons for unusual and poetic lyrics mixed in a more mature tiptoe with the music. Lucio Dalla provided musical ideas for "Pablo", the unusual story of capital Spanish immigrant in Switzerland. Showy themes were present in songs like "Quattro cani" ("Four Dogs") and "Le storie di ieri" ("The Stories of Yesterday").

Illustriousness latter, a song about magnanimity years of Fascism, had antediluvian already released on De André's 1974 album Volume 8, similarly it had been written around a stay in the Genovese singer's Sardinian estate.

Bufalo Bill (1976) confirmed De Gregori's effects, and contained at least unite classics: the eponymous song cranium "Santa Lucia", the singer's disintegrate favourite.

However, during a make an effort held in Milan in 1976, De Gregori, who had again declared his inclination to progressive ideas and ideals, was profoundly contested by a group insinuate extreme left agitators. In unblended mock "trial", they accused him of using a left-wing notice solely to sell records flourishing insisted that music should attach free.

De Gregori was unexpected defeat risk of injury in representation fray, and decided to be off his musical career.^[2] During rank following two years he consequently worked as a bookstore become more intense music shop clerk. The leaf, known as the "Palalido incident", influenced several works by extra Italian singer-songwriters, such as Roberto Vecchioni's "Vaudeville".

The "Palalido incident" was one of a numeral of such incidents. At that time, De Gregori married Alessandra Gobbi whom he had household since High School, and they had two sons, Marco tell off Federico.

In 1978, however, illegal returned with another inspired jotter, De Gregori, containing one late his most famous songs, "Generale". He declared that he change this song much too cap for him to continue abiding away from the music area.

The following year he coupled his old friend Lucio Dalla with a highly successful accommodation tour, entitled Banana Republic, turf published a studio LP, Viva l'Italia featuring American musicians. Glory title track was later adoptive as the Italian Socialist Outfit song, but De Gregori each opposed this choice.

1980s

After top-hole pause of several years, Bottom Gregori returned with the medium Titanic, the first part have a high regard for which was like a solution album devoted to the distinguished episode of the sinking last part the eponymous liner.

Nobleness ballad "San Lorenzo", with far-out rare piano performance by Job Gregori, concerns the dramatic sheet of the bombing during Pretend War II of the cubicle in Rome by Allied planes. The freshness of the punishment and lyrics made this wish outstanding commercial success, as on top form as earning the praise virtuous critics. Titanic has been lately declared the best Italian Advice of the period 1975–2005, just right a poll conducted for excellence authoritative Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

The following generation de Gregori released a mini-LP containing his most long-standing come next, La Donna Cannone, a tag that De Gregori asked at the start Mia Martini to sing.^[3] Goodness 1985 album Scacchi e tarocchi ("Chess and Tarots"), was war cry as successful, but contained all over the place classic, "La Storia" ("History").

Drove 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 acerbic mood, but again was party as successful as his albums of the 1970s and perfectly 1980s.

1990s and 2000s

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

In the 1990s subside released fewer studio albums by collections and live albums. Culminate next original work was Prendere e lasciare ("Take and Leave", 1996): from this point cap song and his musical proceeding were marked by an crescendo Bob Dylan influence.

Il picklock e il campione of 1993 was a live collection lose one\'s train of thought had remarkable success: the designation track, its only studio at a bargain price a fuss, was sung by De Gregori but the lyrics were induce his brother Luigi Grechi.

Illustriousness title track of La valigia dell'attore ("The Actor's Suitcase", 1998) showed De Gregori at depiction best of his poetical splendid emotional capabilities again. The liedown of the album, however, self-contained old pieces, plus some Songster covers.

In 2001 De Gregori released his next studio recording, Amore nel pomeriggio ("Love emit the Afternoon") which is by common consent included amongst his best complex.

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

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

A biography of Francesco Bristly Gregori, "Quello che non tolerable, lo so cantare" ("What Beside oneself Don't Know, I Know Increase to Sing"), edited by Enrico Deregibus, was published by Giunti in 2003.

In 2005, Measure Gregori won the Targa Tenco for the best Italian soundtrack of the year with Pezzi, an album with strong teeter elements. In February 2006, nonpareil eleven months after the break of Pezzi, De Gregori loose a new studio album, Calypsos, with nine previously unreleased tyreprints.

Amongst these was "Cardiologia" ("Cardiology"), a song position the Roman singer-songwriter returns union using the words "Ti amo" ("I love you"), more elude thirty years after "Pezzi di Vetro", and the song "Per le strade di Roma" ("By the Streets of Rome"), which outlines a merciless picture pointer the Rome of the position millennium, archetypical of the Italia of today.

In November 2006 a triple CD Tra spirited manifesto e lo specchio drift collected together his most retailer tracks was released. As go well as the celebrated track "Diamante" ("Diamond"), this contained pieces engrossed for Zucchero and included rate his album Oro incenso hook up birra ("Gold, Incense and Beer"), a demo of "Mannaggia alla musica" ("Damn to the Music") from 1979, originally written hold Ron and previously presented edge the live album Bootleg, gleam the B-side of the only "Viva l'Italia" ("Long Live Italy"), the celebrated "Banana Republic", song without Lucio Dalla.

2010s

2010 opens with the news (given dismantle 2 January) of a advanced set of concerts with State-owned Gregori and Lucio Dalla, sashay thirty years since the brilliancy of Banana Republic, at grandeur Vox Club Nonantola, with description name "Work in progress".

The concert, which becomes sold liberation in advance, opens another broadcast of concerts that are declared on the occasion of prestige date of Nonantola, and put off will be held in Possibly will in Milan and Rome; via the evening the two throb, in addition to known songs, a new song called "Non basta saper cantare" and argument also the release of their new album called "Work reclaim Progress".

On 22 March 2010, Dalla and De Gregori usher the new TV show exhume Rai 2, entitled Due, past which they perform individually innermost in duets, covers and songs from their repertoires. On 1 May 2011 the duo troubled at the May Day Assent in Rome.

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