Alessandro "Alex" Britti (born 23 August 1968) is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Biography
When he was 17, he started his first band, playing
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
at clubs in Rome, and eventually moved to
Milan. In 1989 he established the Alex Britti Blues Band. He has worked with
Buddy Miles,
Billy Preston
William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he ba ...
,
Louisiana Red and has toured Europe with
Rosa King.
In the mid-1990s, he toured with
Francesco De Gregori. The experience prompted Britti to switch to a more soft rock-oriented sound. He had his first hit in 1998 when "
Solo una volta (o tutta la vita)" made it to the top of the Italian charts. In 1999 he won in the newcomers category at the
San Remo 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 ...
with the song "Oggi sono io".
Discography
Albums
* 1998 - ''It.Pop''
* 2000 - ''La vasca''
* 2003 - ''Tre''
* 2005 - ''Festa''
* 2008 - ''Alex Britti MTV Unplugged''
* 2009 - ''.23''
* 2013 - ''Bene così''
* 2015 – ''In nome dell'amore - Volume 1''
* 2017 – ''In nome dell'amore - Volume 2''
Singles
* 1998 - "
Solo una volta (o tutta la vita)"
* 1998 - "Gelido"
* 1999 - "Oggi sono io"
* 1999 - "Mi piaci"
* 2000 - "Una su 1.000.000"
* 2000 - "La vasca"
* 2001 - "Sono contento"
* 2003 - "7000 caffè"
* 2003 - "La Vita sognata"
* 2003 - "Lo Zingaro Felice"
* 2005 - "Prendere o lasciare"
* 2006 - "Festa"
* 2006 - "Quanto ti amo"
* 2006 - "Solo con te"
* 2006 - "Notte di mezza estate"
* 2008 - "Milano"
* 2008 - "L'Isola Che Non C'è"
* 2009 - "Piove"
* 2009 - "Buona fortuna"
* 2011 - "Immaturi"
* 2013 - "Baciami (e portami a ballare)"
* 2013 - "Bene così"
* 2014 - "Non È Vero Mai"
( Bianca Atzei ft. Alex Britti)
* 2015 - "Ciao Amore, ciao"
( Bianca Atzei ft. Alex Britti)
* 2015 - "Perché?"
References
External links
Official site
1968 births
Living people
Italian pop singers
Italian male singers
Italian singer-songwriters
Sanremo Music Festival winners of the newcomers section
Singers from Rome
Italian blues guitarists
Italian blues musicians
Italian male guitarists
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