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Marco Luberti
Marco Luberti (born 13 February 1941) is an Italian lyricist, record producer and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Rome, after graduating from the liceo artistico Luberti started studying piano and performing as a keyboardist in a number of beat groups. In the late 1960s he started a fruitful collaboration with Riccardo Cocciante, first co-writing songs for other artists, and in the 1970s, when Cocciante started his solo career, serving as his lyricist and producer. Luberti's works include Cocciante's hits "Bella senz'anima", "Margherita", "Io canto", "Quando finisce un amore" and "Poesia". The collaboration ended in 1980.Ernesto Bassignano. "Luberti, Marco". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. In 1982 Luberti released is only work as singer-songwriter, the album ''Canzoni ed appunti'', which while being well received by critics was a commercial failure. He then focused on his work as producer and lyricist for other artist ...
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Rome
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Mecano
Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in 1981 and active until 1992. Mecano became one of the most successful Spanish pop bands of all time. The band is still the best-selling Spanish band, with over 25 million records worldwide. They were considered by some to be avant-garde for their time and part of la Movida Madrileña countercultural movement. They had a brief comeback in 1998. The band's line-up was singer Ana Torroja and brothers Nacho and José María Cano, who worked alongside session musicians such as Arturo Terriza, Manolo Aguilar, Nacho Mañó, Javier Quílez, Ángel Celada and Óscar Astruga. The trio's musical career spanned two distinct stages. The first, up to 1985, was essentially as a synthpop band, while in the second stage Mecano followed a more acoustic pop rock direction, with elements of ballad, dance, flamenco, bossa nova, tango, salsa, rumba flamenca, bolero, pasodoble, and even reggae. The unprecedented success also hit Hispanic America. Also, thanks t ...
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Italian Lyricists
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Musicians From Rome
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1941 Births
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Schola Cantorum (band)
Schola Cantorum de Paris is a musical academy based in France. Schola Cantorum may also refer to: * Schola Cantorum, a choir formerly known as MacDowell Chorus and based in the United States * Schola Cantorum (Italian vocal group), a vocal group based in Italy * Schola Cantorum (Norwegian choir), a chamber choir based in Norway * Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a musical academy based in Switzerland * Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, a choir based in Venezuela * Schola Cantorum of Oxford, a chamber choir based at Oxford University in England * The Schola Cantorum of Rome, a Catholic choir based in Italy * University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum The University of Arkansas Schola Cantorum represents the pinnacle of choral singing in the state of Arkansas. Since 1957, Schola Cantorum has attracted the most talented singers from across the country, and has performed widely, both domestically ..., a choir based at the University of Arkansas in the United States * Schola Cantorum Stuttgart
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Enzo Carella
Enzo Carella (8 January 1952 – 21 February 2017) was an Italian singer-songwriter. Active since 1976, his major hit is the song "Barbara", which was ranked at second place at the Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annua ... in 1979. Discography Albums * 1977 - ''Vocazione'' (IT, ZPLT 34017) * 1979 - ''Barbara e altri Carella'' (IT, ZPLT 34065) * 1981 - ''Sfinge'' (RCA Italiana, PL 31600) * 1992 - ''Carella de Carellis'' (IT 74321 104021) * 1995 - ''Se non cantassi sarei nessuno (L'Odissea di Panella e Carella)'' (IT 74321 26789 2) * 2004 - ''Enzo Carella'' (BMG Ricordi Flashback, raccolta, 2 cd) * 2007 - ''Ahoh Ye Nànà'' (Sony BMG) Singles *1976 - "Fosse vero"/"Si rivede ragazza" (IT, ZT 7066) *1977 - "Malamore"/"L'anima pagliacciona" (IT, ZBT ...
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Fiorella Mannoia
Fiorella Mannoia (; born 4 April 1954) is an Italian singer and songwriter. Biography The Beginning Fiorella Mannoia's father Luigi was an Italian film stuntman, and Fiorella, her brother Maurizio and sister Patrizia began work in this area as children. Fiorella Mannoia's first film role as a stuntwoman was at the age of 13 in the film '' Non cantare, spara!'' ("Don't Sing, Shoot!") (1968). She often acted as a stand-in for Monica Vitti, e.g., in '' Amore mio aiutami'' ("Help Me, My Love"), and was also a stand-in for Candice Bergen in '' The Hunting Party''. She debuted in the world of music at the Castrocaro Music Festival in 1968, singing ''Un bambino sul leone'' ("A Child on the Lion") by Adriano Celentano. Although she didn't win, she obtained a record contract with Carisch, with whom she recorded her first 45, ''Ho saputo che partivi'' ("I Found Out You Were Leaving"), which had on the B-side ''Le ciliegie'' ("The Cherries"), written by the young guitarist Riccardo Zap ...
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Anna Oxa
Anna Hoxha (; born 28 April 1961), known professionally as Anna Oxa (), is an Italian singer, actress, and television presenter. Oxa has received mainstream popularity and recognition within Italy due to her numerous participations in the Sanremo Music Festival. Beginning her career as a teenager, Oxa debuted in the Sanremo Music Festival 1978 with the song "Un'emozione da poco", placing second in the competition. Following her success in Sanremo, she released her debut studio album ''Oxanna'' (1978) that year, which became her first chart-topping album in Italy. After numerous participations in Sanremo during the 1980s, Oxa competed again in the Sanremo Music Festival 1989, performing " Ti lascerò" as a duet with Fausto Leali. The duo won the competition, and thus were chosen as the Italian representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in Lausanne, competing with the song " Avrei voluto"; they placed ninth in the finals. Oxa went on to win Sanremo once more, winning the ...
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Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli on 9 April 1948) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the following decade, she experienced a career revival in the late 1990s and reinstated her position on Italian music charts. Her most popular songs include "La bambola" (1968), " Pazza idea" (1973), " Pensiero stupendo" (1978) and " ...E dimmi che non vuoi morire" (1997). She scored fourteen top 10 albums (including three number ones) and fourteen top 10 singles (including two number ones) in her native Italy. Pravo participated at the Sanremo Music Festival ten times, most recently in 2019, and has won three critics' awards at the festival. She also performed twelve times at the Festivalbar. Biography 1960s and 1970s Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute Benedetto Marcello and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and the future ...
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Marcella Bella
Giuseppa Marcella Bella (born 18 June 1952 in Catania) is an Italian pop singer. Her brothers Antonio and Salvatore Bella are famous musicians, and her brother Gianni Bella is another popular singer who has composed several songs for her. In 1972, she took part in Festival di Sanremo with the song ''Montagne verdi'', and later performed in other musical events. She has covered her songs in German, English and Spanish. In 1974 she recorded "Nessuno mai". Two years later, the Jamaican and German group, Boney M. Boney M. was a German-Caribbean vocal group that specialized in disco and funk created by German record producer Frank Farian, who was the group's primary songwriter. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group's o ... made an English version, "Take the heat off me" included in their eponymous album. Italian discography Singles *1969 ''Il pagliaccio'' *1969 ''Bocca dolce'' *1971 ''Hai ragione tu'' *1972 ''Montagne verdi'' *1972 ''Sol ...
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