Giuseppe "Pinuccio" Pirazzoli (born 9 June 1949) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, musician and record producer.

Life and career

Born in

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, Pirazzoli started playing piano at the age of five and guitar at the age of eight.Nicola Sisto. "Pirazzoli, Pinuccio". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1347-8. As a child, he appeared in several

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sketches as a baby pianist. After being part of several local groups, he started his professional career as the guitarist of I Ragazzi della Via Gluck, the

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of Adriano Celentano, with whom he continued to collaborate even after the group disbanded. Starting from the early 1970s Piraccioli focused his activities on composing and arranging, collaborating among others with

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, Al Bano and Romina Power,

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. Pirazzoli is a popular figure of the

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, taking part as a conductor in numerous editions of the event since 1990. He often collaborated with

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as a composer of TV scores and as conductor in several TV-shows.

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