Gianfranco Baldazzi (28 July 1943 – 25 June 2013) was an Italian lyricist, record producer, author and journalist.

Life and career

Born in

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, Baldazzi started his career as a stage actor. Active from the second half of the 1960s, he wrote songs for Mina,

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, Gianni Morandi,

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, Peppino di Capri,

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among others. He was also a producer, and between 1991 and 1994 he was artistic director of the label Pressing. As an author, Baldazzi wrote several books about Italian music history, some biographies and a historical novel set in the Middle Ages, "Il Silenzio della Cattedrale" (The Silence of the Cathedral). He also collaborated with several magazines and newspapers, and with the TV-channel

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Publications

* ''La canzone italiana del Novecento'' (Newton Compton, 1988), a history of Italian Song from Enrico Caruso to Eros Ramazzotti * ''I nostri cantautori'' (Thema, prima edizione 1990), a history of Art Song in Italy from Odoardo Spadaro to the present day * ''Dalla'' (Muzio, prima edizione 1990), a biography of singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, told by a friend from his same hometown * ''Le parole che cantavamo''
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Le Perle della Memoria, 2004) * ''Lucio Dalla. L'uomo degli specchi'' (Minerva Edizioni, 2013) with photos by Roberto Serra

Songs written by Gianfranco Baldazzi

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldazzi, Gianfranco 1943 births 2013 deaths Musicians from Bologna Italian lyricists Italian record producers 20th-century Italian musicians 20th-century Italian male musicians Writers from Bologna