Giuseppe "Beppe" Carletti (born August 12, 1946) is an Italian musician, founder and

keyboardist A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical inst ...

of the band I Nomadi.

Career

Carletti was born in

Novi di Modena Novi di Modena ( Novese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about northwest of Bologna and about north of Modena in the Pianura Padana The Po Valley, Po Plain, Plain of th ...

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. He founded the Nomadi at the age of sixteen, together with Augusto Daolio, Franco Midili, Leonardo Manfredini, Gualtiero Gelmini and Antonio Campari. After Daolio's death, he remained the sole founder member still active with the band. Carletti has always distinguished for his humanitarian and social engagement. He founded a hospital in

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and

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where girls victims of slavery were helped. On February 18, 2005, Daolio's birthday, he was named Knight of Italian Republic by president

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. His favourite football team is Juventus.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Carletti, Beppe 1946 births Living people Musicians from the Province of Modena

Career

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