Alex Baroni, born Alessandro Guido Baroni (22 December 1966 – 13 April 2002) was an Italian singer, active between 1994 and 2002. He released four albums during his lifetime. A fifth posthumous record, a tribute album, and two more collections (one of which double, both of them containing previously unreleased material, and his greatest songs) came out after his death in 2002.

Biography

He was born to Carlo, a physicist, and Marina, a mathematician. His parents passed on their passion for science to both him and his younger brother Guido (also born on 22 December, but in 1968). In fact, Alex graduated in chemistry at the

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and at the beginning of his career as a musician he worked for several years as a chemistry teacher in public and private technical institutes, while Guido graduated in mechanical engineering and obtained a chair at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the

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. From a very young age, Alex showed an innate passion for music; he began to cultivate this passion at the age of 17, after a motorbike accident - for which he also risked paralysis - forced him to bed for an entire year. At the end of the long hospital stay, in which he found in singing a fundamental distraction from the forced immobility, he took lessons from Luca Jurman, formed a group with some friends and started to perform in various clubs in Milan, proposing covers of funk, soul and blues songs composed by both American and Italian artists, first of all Pino Daniele.

Discography

*''Fuorimetrica'' (1994 – DDD) *''Alex Baroni'' (1997 –

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) *''Disney's Hercules – Italian Original Soundtrack'' (1997 – Wonderland Music Company) *''Quello che voglio'' (1998 –

) *''Onde – International Album'' (1998 –

; compilation album for export only, including tracks taken from the albums Alex Baroni and Quello Che Voglio). *''Ultimamente'' (1999) *''Semplicemente'' – Dual Disc: CD/DVD (CD 2002 – CD/DVD 2006 –

) *''C'è di più'' (2004 –

) *''Alex (Tributo ad Alex Baroni)'' (2006 – Azzurra Music) *''Alex Baroni Collection'' (2007 –

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/ BMG)

References

External links

Alex Baroni's Official Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baroni, Alex Sopot International Song Festival winners 1966 births 2002 deaths Soul singers Italian pop singers Singers from Milan 20th-century Italian male singers