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Dick Danello, stage name of Filippo D'Anello (
Belvedere Marittimo, January 1, 1943), is an Italian singer, songwriter, producer, MC and actor who lives in Brazil. He was part of the 1960s Brazilian rock scene known as
Jovem Guarda
Jovem GuardaJovem Guarda translates literally as "young guard". It could be interpreted as "vanguard". was primarily a Brazilian musical television show first aired by Rede Record in 1965, although the term soon expanded to designate the entire ...
.
Biography
Filippo D'Anello was born in
Belvedere Marittimo, city of
Calabria,
Italy
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. He started singing as a child in ''Convento dei Cappuccini'' just before immigrating to Brazil in 1955. He started his career as a professional singer in 1964, as Dick Danello, with the album "''O Reino da Juventude''" released by the popular São Paulo DJ Antonio Aguilar along with other acts like
Sérgio Reis, The Vips, Marcos Roberto etc.
In 1965, he recorded an EP for Gravodisc, an independent label in Santos-SP, with the orchestra of Élcio Alvarez and the vocal group Eloá. Later in 65, he recorded a cover of ''Quando Vedrai La Mia Ragazza'' for Fermata Records, accompanied by The Jet Blacks and Os Titulares do Ritmo, which got to #10 in the charts.
Since then, he became a regular at
Jovem Guarda
Jovem GuardaJovem Guarda translates literally as "young guard". It could be interpreted as "vanguard". was primarily a Brazilian musical television show first aired by Rede Record in 1965, although the term soon expanded to designate the entire ...
a TV rock show compered by
Roberto Carlos
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, who used to dub him "The italianissimo".
Still in 1965, Danello recorded ''Ogni Mattina'', accompanied by The Jordans with arrangements by Pocho, a Uruguayan conductor who had his own combo; rights were bought by the
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for broadcasting purposes in
England
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.
In 1966, Danello covers
Caterina Caselli
Caterina Caselli (born 10 April 1946) is an Italian record producer, music executive, singer and bass player.
Biography
Caselli was born in Modena but grew up in Sassuolo. She started her music career by playing bass in local clubs.
In 1966 s ...
's ''
''Nessuno mi può giudicare'''' from the
Festival di San Remo. In 1967, he covers ''Bisogna Saper Perdere'' originally performed by The Rokes and Lucio Dalla at San Remo. The single had arrangements by Edmundo Peruzzi backed with ''Il Mondo Non È Per Me'', produced by Tony Campello.
In the early 70s, Danello took part in movies and musicals as actor and singer. In 1971 he wrote the soundtrack and appeared as an actor with
Renato Aragão
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and
Dedé Santana
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Short bio
D ...
,
A Ilha dos Paqueras
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, with the Fauzi Mansur's direction. He also composed the soundtrack and starred in the first film of renowned Brazilian director
Carlos Reichenbach
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Early life and career
Reichenbach was born in Porto Alegre to Luise Reichenbach (née Tinger) and Carlos Reichenbach. Reichenbach was one year of age wh ...
, ''
Corrida em Busca do Amor''.
He also participated in the rock opera
Jesus Christ Superstar of the
Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Tim Rice
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as an actor and singer, when the play comes to Brazil. The direction was made by the Russian playwright
Eugenio Kusnet. Other actors in the play that have been revealed were
Ney Latorraca,
Eduardo Conde and
Stênio Garcia. He composed soundtracks for over 30 movies and ''novelas'', including the song ''Passion Love Theme'', which was part of the ''novela'' ''
Fogo Sobre Terra
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'' and was successful in the voice of several artists like
Altemar Dutra,
Moacyr Franco,
Eduardo Assad,
Joelma and many other singers. He also composed for the first film of
Vera Fischer,
Red Signal - As Fêmeas, with the band Magnetic Sounds.
Also in the 70s founded the Central Park Records, a record label which had great importance in the music production in the 70s, launching artists like
Dave Maclean
Dave Maclean (born José Carlos González, 29 September 1944 – 17 June 2023) was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, whose repertoire sung in English was very successful in the 1970s.
Biography
Born in Brazil to a Spanish father, Maclean became int ...
,
Edward Cliff,
Téo Azevedo, who was awarded the Latin Grammy in 2013, and many other regional and singers of the "False English" movement, that would mark the Brazilian music industry in the 70s.
Dave Maclean
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Biography
Born in Brazil to a Spanish father, Maclean became int ...
sold over 1 million copies in Latin America and
Edward Cliff conquered Europe with the hit Nights of September, composition of the Dick Danello, that becoming of the first places in Italy and playing in the English BBC.
In 1982 it began with the radio program Parlando D'Amore, who began to publish the popular Italian music in Brazilian territory. The program went through stations such as
Radio Capital and
Radio Gazeta, and winner of several prizes awarded by the municipal council of São Paulo as a recovery vehicle of foreign Italian culture and enriching the São Paulo culture as itself. The history of the program today is research topic of a group of academics of the social communication at
USP.
.
In the 1980s launches ''Parlando D'Amore'' and ''L'Italiano'' albums, recorded in Milan
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and Rome
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and distributed in Brazil. Begin to show in the Rede Manchete
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annual editions of the Sanremo Music Festival
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, launching in Brazil Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Amedeo Minghi
Amedeo Minghi (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and producer.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Minghi started his career in the mid-1960s participating in a large number of musical contests, and then making his profes ...
, Andrea Bocelli
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and other artists today devoted worldwide.
In the 1990s continues with radio program and is hired by the Italian company Costa Crociere, to elaborate cruises with Italian themes along the Brazilian and South America coast. He made the musical research for various projects of Rede Globo
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, including for Terra Nostra ''novela'', one of the biggest recent successes of Brazilian TV.
In 2004 he released the ''Cuore Italiano'' album and, in the same year, is awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Art, Culture and History for his artistic contribution to the country. In 2009 he released the album ''Nelcuorenellanima'', recorded in studios in Milan
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, Udine
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and Florence
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, bringing an original songs and a duet with Italian singer Edoardo de Angelis
Edoardo De Angelis (born 31 August 1978) is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Biography
In 2006 he graduated in directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2011, he made his debut feature film ''Mozzarella Stories''. Ser ...
. In 2013 release ''Rock Italiano'' album, that makes a tribute to the roaring years of Italian music.
In 2014 receives the Order of the Musicians of Brazil an award in honor of his 50-year career and goes on tour with the band The Clevers to commemorate the anniversary of the Jovem Guarda
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, singing on the Costa Favolosa cruise, Homs Club and in the Virada Cultural Virada Cultural Paulistana is the biggest 24-hour festival in the world, that began in 2005 and occurs annually (usually during the month of May) in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Events at the Virada Cultural include various live music concerts, f ...
of São Paulo
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.
Discography
Albums
*1964 - ''O Reino da Juventude''
*1969 - ''Natal Feliz''
*1969 - ''As 14 Pr'a Frente vol. V''
*1969 - ''As 14 Pr'a Frente vol. VI''
*1970 - ''As 14 Pr'a Frente vol. VII''
*1975 - ''Nostalgia alla Italiana''
*1983 - ''Parlando d'amore''
*1988 - ''L'italiano''
*1990 - ''Parlando d'amore''
*1993 - ''Tuttosanremo I''
*1994 - ''Tuttosanremo II''
*1999 - ''20 successi italiani''
*2004 - ''Cuore italiano''
*2009 - ''Nelcuorenellanima'
*2014 - ''Rock italiano''
*2015 - ''Temas da Boca do Lixo''
*2015 - ''Italian Highway''
*2016 - ''The Lost Sessions''
Soundtracks
*1970 - ''A Ilha dos Paqueras
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''
*1971 - '' Uma Verdadeira História de Amor''
*1972 - '' Sinal Vermelho - as Fêmeas''
*1972 - '' Corrida em Busca do Amor''
*1973 - '' Os Ossos do Barão''
*1974 - '' Gente que Transa''
*1974 - ''Fogo sobre Terra
''Fogo sobre Terra'' is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by TV Globo. It premiered on 8 May 1974 and ended on 4 January 1975, with a total of 209 episodes in Black and white. It's the fourteenth "novela das oito" to be aired on the ti ...
''
*1975 - '' Núpcias Vermelhas''
EPs
*1965 - ''Dick Danello''
*1969 - ''4 Sucessos Nacionais''
*1969 - ''4 Sucessos Internacionais''
*1971 - ''Passion Love Theme''
*1974 - ''Núpcias Vermelhas''
*1974 - ''4 pezzi di successo''
*1975 - ''Angela's Love Theme''
Singles
*1965 - ''Quando vedrai la mia ragazza'' / ''Bussicabombaio''
*1965 - ''Ogni mattina'' / ''Non aspetto nessuno''
*1966 - ''Nessuno mi può giudicare'' / ''Parlami di te''
*1967 - ''Bisogna saper perdere'' / ''Il mondo non è per me''
*1968 - ''Poesia'' / ''Da bambino''
*1969 - ''Zingara'' / ''Lontano dagli occhi''
*1969 - ''Leylan'' / ''Já Não Existe Mais''
*1970 - ''Chi non lavora non fa l'amore'' / ''La prima cosa bella''
*1971 - ''Il cuore è uno zingaro'' / ''Poetica no. 1''
*2017 - ''Santo Natale''
*2018 - ''Un Altro Giorno Senza Te''
Actor (partial filmography)
*1970 - ''A Ilha dos Paqueras
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''
*1972 - '' Sinal Vermelho - as Fêmeas''
*1972 - '' Corrida em Busca do Amor''
Awards
*1985 - Assembleia Legislativa de São Paulo
*1986 - Premio Tanit (Spain)
*2004 - Academia Brasileira de Arte, Cultura e História
*2014 - Ordem dos Músicos do Brasil
References
External links
Official Website
Jovem Guarda Page
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1943 births
Italian-language singers
Jovem Guarda
People from the Province of Cosenza
Italian emigrants to Brazil
Living people