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Alice (singer)
Carla Bissi (born 26 September 1954), known professionally as Alice () or Alice Visconti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who began her career in the early 1970s. After releasing three albums by the end of the decade, her breakthrough came in 1981 when she won the Festival della canzone italiana, Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Per Elisa". This was followed by European hit singles like "Una notte speciale", "Messaggio", "Chan-son Egocentrique", "Prospettiva Nevski" and "Nomadi" and albums like ''Gioielli rubati'', ''Park Hotel (album), Park Hotel'', ''Elisir (Alice album), Elisir'', and ''Il sole nella pioggia'' which charted in Continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan. In , she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest with "I treni di Tozeur", a duet with longtime collaborator Franco Battiato. In her more recent career Alice has explored a diverse range of musical genres including classical, jazz, electronica and ambient music, ambient, and has coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forlì
Forlì ( ; ; ; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is, together with Cesena, the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena.The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the east of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre. The city hosts some of Italy's culturally and artistically significant landmarks; it is also notable as the birthplace of painters Melozzo da Forlì and Marco Palmezzano, humanist historian Flavio Biondo, physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni. The University Campus of Forlì (part of the University of Bologna) is specialized in Economics, Engineering, Political Sciences as well as the Advanced school of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT). Climate The climate of the area is humid subtropical (''Cfa'' in the Köppen climate classification) with Mediterranean features, fairly mitigated by the relative closeness of the city to the sea. Forlì is c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Battiato
Francesco "Franco" Battiato (; 23 March 1945 – 18 May 2021) was an Italian musician, singer, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs explore many themes (including, but not limited to, philosophy, art, spirituality, science, introspection, innovation, Western esotericism, esotericism, religiousness), and have spanned genres such as experimental pop, electronic music, minimal music, minimalism, Avant-garde music, avant-garde, progressive rock, new wave music, new wave, symphonic music, sound collage, opera, oratorio and movie soundtrack. He was for decades one of the most popular singer-songwriters in Italy. His unique sound, song-crafting and especially his lyrics (often containing philosophical, intellectual and culturally exotic references, as well as tackling universal themes about the human condition) earned him a unique spot on Italy's music scene, and the nickname of "Maestro, Il Maestro". His work includes songwriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Wave Music
New wave is a music genre that encompasses pop music, pop-oriented styles from the 1970s through the 1980s. It is considered a lighter and more melodic "broadening of Punk subculture, punk culture". It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many contemporary popular music styles, including synth-pop, alternative dance and post-punk. The main new wave movement coincided with late 1970s punk and continued into the early 1980s. The common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, angular guitar riffs, jerky rhythms, the use of electronics, and a distinctive visual style in fashion. In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop and rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave" in the United States. Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself philosophy, the musician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capo Nord (album)
''Capo Nord'' is the third studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released in 1980 on EMI Music. The album includes Alice's Italian breakthrough single "Il vento caldo dell'estate", her first collaboration with composer and singer Franco Battiato. After Alice won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1981 with "Per Elisa", ''Capo Nord'' was re-released in certain territories and then added the track as A5. Alternate versions of both "Rumba Rock" (then retitled "Hispavox") and "Il vento caldo dell'estate" were included on the 1987 album '' Elisir''. "Il vento caldo dell'estate" was again re-recorded in 2000 and included in the career retrospective '' Personal Jukebox''. Track listing ;Side A #"Il vento caldo dell'estate (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio, Alice) – 3:34 #"Bazar (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:03 #"Sarà" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:01 #"Lenzuoli bianchi" (Alice, Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) – 3:34 #"Una sera di novembre" (Alice, Franco B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'era Del Cinghiale Bianco
''L'era del cinghiale bianco'' () is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato. It was released in 1979 by EMI Italiana. This album marks the return of Battiato to pop, after a period in which he substantially produced experimental music (1972–1978). The title song's theme, the "white boar", is inspired by an ancient Celtic myth. Track listing # "L'era del cinghiale bianco" – 4:14 # "Magic Shop" – 4:11 # "Strade dell'est" – 4:18 # "Luna indiana" – 3:30 # "Il re del mondo" – 4:34 # "Pasqua eti" – 4:25 # "Stranizza d'amuri" – 5:10 Personnel *Roberto Colombo, Antonio Ballista – keyboards *Tullio De Piscopo Tullio De Piscopo (born 24 February 1946 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian drummer, percussionist and singer-songwriter. De Piscopo was born in Naples. His father was an orchestra percussionist. In 1969 he moved to Turin and two years later he moved ... – Drums * Alberto Radius – Guitars *Julius Farmer – Bass Guitar * Giusto Pio – Violin * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosa Resta
Cosa was an ancient Roman city near the present Ansedonia in southwestern Tuscany, Italy. It is sited on a hill 113 m above sea level and 140 km northwest of Rome on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast. It has assumed a position of prominence in Roman archaeology owing to its excavation. History The Etruscan town (called ''Cusi'' or ''Cosia'') may have been where modern Orbetello stands; a fortification wall in polygonal masonry at Orbetello's lagoon may be in phase with the walls of Cosa. Cosa was founded by the Romans as a Latin colony in 273 BC, on the ''Ager Cosanus'', land confiscated from the defeated Etruscans, to solidify the control of the Romans and offer the Republic a protected port. The town was linked to Rome by the Via Aurelia from about 241 BC. The Second Punic War (218 to 201 BC) in which Hannibal had left a trail of devastation across Italy affected the town like many Latin colonies and the rich bought up both public land and the small farms of the poor. New co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Mia Poca Grande Età
''La mia poca grande età'' is the debut album by Italian singer-songwriter Alice, released under the stage name "Alice Visconti" in 1975 on CBS Records. The album was re-released on CD in Japan in 2006 in Warner Music's ''European Rock Collection'' series. Track listing ;Side A #"Diciott'anni" (Stefano D'Orazio, Massimo Guantini) – 3:45 #"Mi chiamo Alice" (Stefano D'Orazio, Renato Brioschi) – 4:28 #"La mia estate" (Stefano D'Orazio, Salvatore Fabrizio) – 4:03 #"Domani vado via" (Stefano D'Orazio, Salvatore Fabrizio) – 5:03 #"Pensieri nel sole" (Stefano D'Orazio, Renato Brioschi) – 5:02 #"È notte da un po'" (Stefano D'Orazio, Roberto Soffici) – 1:57 ;Side B #"Libera" (Stefano D'Orazio, Renato Brioschi) – 2:02 #"Una casa solo mia" (Stefano D'Orazio, Roberto Soffici) – 4:02 #"Sempre tu, sempre di più" (Stefano D'Orazio, Massimo Guantini) – 3:59 #"Una giornata con mio padre" (Stefano D'Orazio, Dodi Battaglia) – 3:26 #"Io voglio vivere" (Stefano D'Orazio, Renato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice
Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by 438 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). As of 2025, 249,466 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune of Venice, of whom about 51,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pooh (Band)
Pooh is an Italian Pop music, pop band formed in Bologna in 1966. Some of the band's most popular songs include "Parsifal", "Dove comincia il sole" and "Pensiero (song), Pensiero". History 1960s In 1962, drummer Valerio Negrini and guitarist Mauro Bertoli in Bologna established the band Jaguar (band), Jaguars, the nucleus of the group that would later become Pooh. In 1964, Jaguars formed its first stable line-up, composed of Negrini and Bertoli along with vocalist Vittorio Cottafavi, Vittorio Costa, bassist Giancarlo Cantelli, and Rhythm guitar, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist Bruno Barraco. In 1965, Vittorio Costa left the band to continue his medical studies, while keyboardist Bob Gillot and rhythm guitarist Mario Goretti joined. In January 1966, The Jaguars signed a Recording contract, record deal with Vedette, Armando Sciascia's record company. As the name Jaguars was taken by another band which had already recorded a single, the group decided to come up with a new name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanta Voglia Di Lei
"Tanta voglia di lei" ('So much longing for her') is a 1971 song composed by Roby Facchinetti and Valerio Negrini and performed by the Italian musical group Pooh. Background The song had a troubled production, with various lyrics being tested and dismissed, including a version titled "La mia croce è lei" ('My cross is her') with lyrics by Daniele Pace. Also, CBS initially preferred the B-side "Tutto alle tre" as A-side. Release The single was released on 28 April 1971. It was the first Pooh song to top the Italian hit parade, and sold over 1 million and 200,000 copies, being certified gold disc. It entered the competition at the 1971 Cantagiro, and later took part in Festivalbar, where it ranked second behind Demis Roussos Artemios "Demis" Ventouris-Roussos ( ; , ; 15 June 1946 – 25 January 2015) was a Greek-Egyptian singer, songwriter and musician. As a band member, he is best remembered for his work in the progressive rock music act Aphrodite's Child, but as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 new talents, and it had its maximum popularity from 1962 to early Eighties when, under the direction of Gianni Ravera, based on an agreement with the Sanremo Music Festival the top two finishers of the competition gained the access to the Sanremo Festival. Singers who were launched by the event include Gigliola Cinquetti, Iva Zanicchi, Zucchero Fornaciari, Fiordaliso, Caterina Caselli, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti, Franco Simone and Alice. Winners The winners of the festival are: * 1957 - Tina Castelli * 1958 - Edda Montanari * 1959 - Carmen Villani * 1960 - Angela Venturoli * 1961 - Anna Maria, Cristina Amadei * 1962 - Eugenia Foligatti, Gianni La Commare * 1963 - Gigliola Cinquetti, Bruno Filippini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
