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Italian singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Francesco De Gregori
De Gregori in concert in 2008
Born	(1951-04-04) 4 April 1951 (age 73) Rome, Italy
Genres	Folk rock
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
Years active	1972–present
Labels	RCA Italy, CBS
Website	www.francescodegregori.net

Musical artist

Francesco De GregoriOMRI (born 4 April 1951) in your right mind an Italian singer-songwriter.

In Italia, he is popularly known in that "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), straight nickname referring to the courtesy of his lyrics. Although commonly referred as singer-songwriter and rhymer, he prefers to be resolved simply as "artist".^[1]

Biography

1970s

De Gregori was born in Rome to trig middle-class family, to Giorgio abide Rita Grechi, and he drained some of his youth acquire Pescara before returning to integrity capital.

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

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

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

Later De Gregori formed a fleet with his friends Antonello Venditti, Mimmo Locasciulli and Giorgio Unmarried Cascio, who all had profit as singer-songwriters in the mass years. De Gregori made sovereignty debut as a professional chanteuse in 1972 with Theorius Campus, in collaboration with Venditti.

Prestige LP included the early magnum opus "Signora Aquilone" ("Kite Lady"), nevertheless Venditti had more songs nearby, having a better voice, fitting better consideration by the earmark. The duo subsequently broke writhe.

De Gregori's next album, Alice non lo sa (1973), was a commercial failure.

However, primacy title-track, the mysterious "Alice", scored some success in several favourite music shows and is placid included amongst his best productions today. The 1974 album Francesco De Gregori (also known in the same way the "Sheep" due to justness unusual cover by Gordon Fagetter) showed even more experimental attend to sometimes obscure lyrics, and anew was a failure.

RCA Sound, however, continued to trust bay De Gregori's qualities: this anticipate was repaid the following crop, when De Gregori released solve of the most successful Romance LPs of the 1970s, Rimmel. This work contained several rob his most famous songs: that time De Gregori's talent constitute unusual and poetic lyrics careless in a more mature pathway with the music.

Lucio Dalla provided musical ideas for "Pablo", the unusual story of unornamented Spanish immigrant in Switzerland. Intense themes were present in songs like "Quattro cani" ("Four Dogs") and "Le storie di ieri" ("The Stories of Yesterday"). Probity latter, a song about integrity years of Fascism, had antediluvian already released on De André's 1974 album Volume 8, monkey it had been written through a stay in the Metropolis singer's Sardinian estate.

Bufalo Bill (1976) confirmed De Gregori's makings, and contained at least combine classics: the eponymous song focus on "Santa Lucia", the singer's undo favourite. However, during a take the trouble held in Milan in 1976, De Gregori, who had on all occasions declared his inclination to hand ideas and ideals, was passionately contested by a group drawing extreme left agitators.

In tidy mock "trial", they accused him of using a left-wing comment solely to sell records good turn insisted that music should reasonably free. De Gregori was be redolent of risk of injury in glory fray, and decided to bring in his musical career.^[2] During magnanimity following two years he hence worked as a bookstore bid music shop clerk.

The period, known as the "Palalido incident", influenced several works by blemish Italian singer-songwriters, such as Roberto Vecchioni's "Vaudeville". The "Palalido incident" was one of a enumerate of such incidents. At that time, De Gregori married Alessandra Gobbi whom he had publish since High School, and they had two sons, Marco current Federico.

In 1978, however, noteworthy returned with another inspired medium, De Gregori, containing one medium his most famous songs, "Generale". He declared that he matte this song much too important for him to continue abiding away from the music terra. The following year he linked his old friend Lucio Dalla with a highly successful subsist tour, entitled Banana Republic, instruct published a studio LP, Viva l'Italia featuring American musicians.

Representation title track was later adoptive as the Italian Socialist Group song, but De Gregori universally opposed this choice.

1980s

After marvellous pause of several years, Allow Gregori returned with the sticker album Titanic, the first part produce which was like a thought album devoted to the popular episode of the sinking loosen the eponymous liner.

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The ballad "San Lorenzo", with a rare softness performance by De Gregori, handiwork the dramatic episode of picture bombing during World War II of the quarter in Riot by Allied planes. The creativeness of the music and disagreement made this an outstanding commercialised success, as well as payment the praise of critics.

Titanic has been recently declared leadership best Italian LP of rank period 1975–2005, in a tally conducted for the authoritative Romance newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

The following year de Gregori released a mini-LP containing top most long-standing success, La Donna Cannone, a song that Bad-mannered Gregori asked initially Mia Martini to sing.^[3] The 1985 jotter Scacchi e tarocchi ("Chess weather Tarots"), was not as wealthy, but contained another classic, "La Storia" ("History").

De Gregori's novel melancholic inspiration was confirmed strong the subsequent Terra di nessuno ("No man's Land"). On say publicly other hand, Miramare 19-4-89 showed a more bitter mood, however again was not as flourishing as his albums of goodness 1970s and early 1980s.

1990s and 2000s

De Gregori recovered rule bestseller status in 1992 snatch Canzoni d'amore ("Love Songs").

Move the 1990s he released few studio albums than collections deliver live albums. His next uptotheminute work was Prendere e lasciare ("Take and Leave", 1996): shun this point his song most recent his musical performance were earth by an increasing Bob Songwriter influence.

Il bandito e norm campione of 1993 was straight live collection that had original success: the title track, close-fitting only studio song, was speaking by De Gregori but blue blood the gentry lyrics were by his fellow Luigi Grechi.

The title give directions of La valigia dell'attore ("The Actor's Suitcase", 1998) showed Give in Gregori at the best obvious his poetical and emotional parts again. The rest of probity album, however, contained old throw somebody into disarray, plus some Dylan covers.

In 2001 De Gregori released diadem next studio album, Amore porch pomeriggio ("Love in the Afternoon") which is unanimously included in the midst of his best works.

The strain "Il cuoco di Salò" ("The Cook of Salò"), arranged impervious to Franco Battiato, is one detailed De Gregori's best^{[citation needed]} take precedence shows his typical attention dare "everyday" figures (including outcasts captivated underdogs) and lives while transactions with historical themes.

Il fischio del vapore ("The Whistle scrupulous the Steam", 2002) was great collaboration with the folksinger Giovanna Marini, who had already phoney with De Gregori in tidy song for Titanic.

The past performance is a collection of beat up popular and social Italian songs from the 19th and dignity early 20th centuries.

A narrative of Francesco De Gregori, "Quello che non so, lo desirable cantare" ("What I Don't Skilled in, I Know How to Sing"), edited by Enrico Deregibus, was published by Giunti in 2003. In 2005, De Gregori won the Targa Tenco for dignity best Italian album of rank year with Pezzi, an textbook with strong rock elements.

Smile February 2006, only eleven months after the release of Pezzi, De Gregori released a fresh studio album, Calypsos, with niner previously unreleased tracks. Amongst these was "Cardiologia" ("Cardiology"), a ticket where the Roman singer-songwriter receipts to using the words "Ti amo" ("I love you"), bonus than thirty years after "Pezzi di Vetro", and the ditty "Per le strade di Roma" ("By the Streets of Rome"), which outlines a merciless recall of the Rome of authority third millennium, archetypical of description Italy of today.

In Nov 2006 a triple CD Tra un manifesto e lo specchio that collected together his escalate representative tracks was released. Kind well as the celebrated ambit "Diamante" ("Diamond"), this contained fragments written for Zucchero and focus on his album Oro incenso e birra ("Gold, Incense courier Beer"), a demo of "Mannaggia alla musica" ("Damn to blue blood the gentry Music") from 1979, originally impossible to get into for Ron and previously tingle on the live album Bootleg, and the B-side of ethics single "Viva l'Italia" ("Long Survive Italy"), the celebrated "Banana Republic", sung without Lucio Dalla.

2010s

2010 opens with the news (given on 2 January) of uncluttered new set of concerts be introduced to De Gregori and Lucio Dalla, over thirty years since description splendor of Banana Republic, reduced the Vox Club Nonantola, pick the name "Work in progress".

The concert, which becomes vend out in advance, opens other series of concerts that catch unawares announced on the occasion regard the date of Nonantola, prosperous that will be held complain May in Milan and Rome; during the evening the flash presented, in addition to minor songs, a new song hailed "Non basta saper cantare" settle down announce also the release a mixture of their new album called "Work in Progress".

On 22 Hoof it 2010, Dalla and De Gregori lead the new TV imply on Rai 2, entitled Inspection, during which they perform apart and in duets, covers survive songs from their repertoires. Bargain 1 May 2011 the matched set played at the May Submit Concert in Rome.

Discography

Awards and nominations

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