Adelmo e i suoi Sorapis is an Italian

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led by singer songwriter

Zucchero Fornaciari Adelmo Fornaciari (; born 25 September 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero (), is an Italian singer, musician and songwriter. His stage name is the Italian word for "sugar", as his elementary teach ...

. The group includes Maurizio Vandelli (former lead member of '' Equipe 84''),

Dodi Battaglia Donato Battaglia (born 1 June 1951), known simply as Dodi Battaglia, is an Italian guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter known as a member of the group of the Pooh. Born at Bologna, he joined Pooh as lead guitarist in 1968. Toget ...

(member of ''

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''), Umbi Maggi (former bass guitarist of ''

Nomadi Nomadi (or I Nomadi, meaning "Nomads") is an Italian band formed in 1963 and still present on the music scene. Career Origins In 1961, Beppe Carletti and Leonardo Manfredini formed the group I Monelli (‘Urchins’). In 1962, Carletti met Franco ...

''),

Fio Zanotti Fio Zanotti (born Fiorenzo Zanotti on 20 November 1949) is an Italian record producer, arranger, conductor, composer and multiinstrumentalist. Born in Bologna, Zanotti graduated from the conservatory of his hometown as a conductor. His first mus ...

(conductor and arranger) and

Michele Torpedine Michele Torpedine (Minervino Murge, 1952) is an Italian record producer, television personality, drummer and music manager. He has been the producer of many renowned Italian artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero, and Il Volo, among many others. ...

(record producer). The band formed in 1989, when they met in

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, at the foot of

Sorapis Sorapiss, also referred to as Sorapis or Punta Sorapiss, is a mountain in the Dolomites within the Veneto region of northern Italy. Situated in the ''comune'' of Cortina d'Ampezzo, it has an elevation of . In its vicinity is a mountain pass of th ...

mountain, all to be there on vacation. Since then they played together almost every year-end. They published their first and only album in 1993, ''Walzer d'un blues''. The group then made a short tour to promote the album with dates in Milan, Rome and Bethlehem. After several years of hiatus the group reunited in Sanremo Music Festival 2009, performing the song "Spiove il sole" together with Zucchero's daughter

Irene Fornaciari Irene Fornaciari (born 24 December 1983) is an Italian singer-songwriter. She participated in the Sanremo Festival in 2009 in the category "New Proposals" but became famous in the 2010 participating, along with Nomadi, in the category "Artists" ...

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