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Daniele Sepe (born 17 April 1960 in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
) is an Italian musician, known internationally for interpreting
protest song
A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of ''topical'' songs (or songs connected to current events). It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre.
Among social mov ...
s from around the world.
His first instrument was the
flute
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...
, which he played at the
San Pietro a Majella conservatoire
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...
. After graduating, he began performing with the
Gruppo operaio 'E Zezi di Pomigliano d'Arco, playing at numerous festivals and recording a few albums.
Sepe soon, however, became more interested in
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
and learned to play the
saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...
. He continued recording and began performing with many prominent musicians, like
Nino D'Angelo
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He was born to a poor family in San Pietro a Patierno, a suburb of Naples, and dropped out of ...
,
Gino Paoli
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,
Eduardo de Crescenzo
Eduardo De Crescenzo (born 8 February 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for the songs "Ancora" and "E la musica va".
Background
Born in Naples, De Crescenzo approached music at very young age, as he be ...
,
Mia Martini
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Biography and career
Teresa De Sio was born in Naples and grew up in Cava de' Tirreni, where her family was ori ...]
,
Roberto de Simone
Roberto De Simone (born 25 August 1933) is an Italian stage director, playwright, composer and ethnomusicologist.
Life and career
Born in Naples, after graduating in piano and composition at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory De Simone star ...
,
Peppino Gagliardi
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Gagliardi was born in Naples. His first hit in Italy came in 1963 with "T'amo e t'amerò". In 1970, he had another big hit with the song, Settembre, and more hits followed in the early ...
,
Nino Bonocore and
Roberto Murolo
Roberto Murolo (19 January 1912 – 13 March 2003) was an Italian musician.
Career
Born in Naples, Italy as the son of poet Ernesto Murolo and Lia Cavalli, Murolo showed a began singing and playing the guitar as a child. Murolo won the Itali ...
. His band, which played under several names, varied widely, from purely
wind instrument
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s to
big band
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s. He also composed music for the
theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...
,
cinema
Cinema may refer to:
Film
* Cinematography, the art of motion-picture photography
* Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of a moving image
** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking
...
and
ballet
Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...
.
In 1994, Sepe recorded ''
Vite Perdite'',
which was much more successful than any of his previous niche recordings. It was dubbed album of year by ''
Rockerilla
''Rockerilla'' is a monthly Italy-based music and cinema magazine founded in 1978. It has collaborated with, among others, Richard Bertoncelli and Guido Chiesa. According to Federico Guglielmi, ''Rockerilla'' was followed by those most passionate ...
'', one of the one hundred greatest albums of the 1990s by ''Rockstar'', and received a rave review from ''
Folk-Roots'', an
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
magazine
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.
Discography
References
External links
Official SiteOfficial WeblogOfficial MySpace Site
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Italian jazz saxophonists
Male saxophonists
Italian jazz flautists
1960 births
Living people
Musicians from Naples
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century Italian male musicians
Male jazz musicians
21st-century flautists