Collage (also spelled as I Collage) are an Italian pop music group, mainly successful in the seventies.
Career
The group formed in 1971 in
Olbia
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,
Sardinia
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, as the result of the merging of two previous groups, MAL P2 and The Angels.
In 1976 they won the
Castrocaro Music Festival The Castrocaro Music Festival, also known as Concorso per Voci Nuove, is an Italian musical contest which takes place every year in the town of Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, near Forlì, from 1957. The competition is exclusively reserved for ne ...
with the romantic "Due ragazzi nel sole", which turned to be a hit and peaked at third place on the Italian hit parade.
The following year the group entered the main competition 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 ...
ranking second with the song "Tu mi rubi l'anima", which also charted #2 on the Italian hit parade.
Following a series of minor hits, starting from the second half of the 1980s the band mainly devoted themselves to live performances and concerts.
Members
* Tore Fazzi - bass guitar, lead vocalist (1971 - present)
* Piero Fazzi - guitar, voice (1971 - present)
* Masino Usai - drums (1971 - 1990)
* Piero Pischedda - guitar ((1971 - 1990)
* Pino Ambrosio - keyboards, voice (1971 - 1990)
* Luciano Degortes - voice (1971 - 1974)
* Mario Chessa - keyboard, violin, voice (1992 - present)
* Francesco Astara - drums (1992 - present)
Discography
;Albums
* 1976 – ''Due ragazzi nel sole''
* 1978 – ''Piano piano m'innamorai di te''
* 1979 – ''Concerto d'amore''
* 1980 – ''Donna musica''
* 1982 – ''Stelle di carta''
* 2000 - ''Settantaseiduemila''
* 2003 - ''Abitudini e no''
* 2010 - ''Non ti dimenticherò''
References
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Musical groups established in 1971
Italian pop music groups
1971 establishments in Italy
Spanish-language singers of Italy