Antonello Venditti

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Antonello Venditti, born Anthony Venditti (Rome, March 8, 1949), it is an Italian singer-songwriter.

Considered among the most popular and among the most prolific of the so-called Roman School, since 1972, the year of his debut album, he condensed in his repertoire songs of love and social commitment. With 30 million copies is one among Italians artists with the most records sold.

Born in Rome in Trieste area (just in via Zara, 13). It is the only son of a family belonging to the Italian middle class: his father Vincenzino Italo, Molise Campolieto, in the province of Campobasso, is a State official who will become vice-prefect of Rome; Roman Sicardi mother Wanda, is a high school teacher of Latin and greek. From 1975 to 1978 he was married to Simona Izzo with whom he had his son Francis Xavier, born August 27, 1976, actor and voice actor, who gave him two grandchildren, Alice Venditti Venditti and Tommaso, had by Alexandra La Capria.

1975 is the year of his marriage to Simona Izzo, and the success of Lilly, with whom Venditti comes in first place in the hit parade is the 33 laps of the 45: this album alongside songs in Roman dialect ( "Santa Brigida ", orchestrated by Joseph Mazzucca and Nicola Samale) acoustic ballads like" Attila and the star "and ironic songs as" ball pen "(Venditti attack on journalist Hello 2001 Enzo Caffarelli, who had stuck by his newspaper pages) .

For the first time appears a song about high school memories, "Companion of the school", while the title track is a story of drugs; Full disc The ibex wounded, a story inspired by the events of Felice Riva.

The following disc, Ullallà, published in October of 1976 tries to break away musically from the previous (thanks mainly to the presence of Ivan Graziani, who plays guitars and care arrangements); the songs deal with topics such as historic compromise in "Our Lady of Lourdes", or the environmental disaster caused dall'ICMESA of Seveso July 10, 1976 with the escape of the toxic cloud of dioxin in "Song for Seveso".

Venditti contacts a new producer, Michelangelo Romano (who previously worked with Alan Sorrenti and Roberto Vecchioni), which makes him sign a new recording contract with Philips, and contact again the Stradaperta, the group with which he had collaborated with Lilly times , and records under the sign of Pisces (1978), which returns to the top spot in both the 45 laps of the 33 rankings, and Buona Domenica (1979).

Good Sunday after the singer takes a break of three years, even for some family problems (in this period is separated from his wife, Simona Izzo), interrupted only by the collaboration with Luca Barbarossa (Venditti plays the piano in the second version of Rome stripped, contained in the album Luca Barbarossa).


Antonello Venditti in concert in 1978.
In 1982 he founded his own label, Heinz Music, Distribution Memories (then BMG), with which he published in the eighties: In the rain (1982), Heart (1984), Venditti and secrets (1986) on sax into three tracks participates Enzo Avitabile. It also records a live at the Circus Maximus in Rome as part of the celebrations of the second Scudetto Giallorossi, Circus Maximus (1983), which contains two new songs: Thanks Roma and the Circus Maximus. This result and the result of the concert that the singer has performed Sunday, 15 May 1983. In 1984 Venditti is organizing a second concert at the Circus Maximus to follow the final of the European Cup in Rome, broadcast live on television.

In 1985 he comes out a double live album titled Centocittà, with one unusual: Centocittà. The video of this song has starring Carlo Verdone has always been a friend of the singer, and that the battery in Venditti discs will play again in the future: Rocky, Rambo and Sting (1986), In this world of thieves (percussion, 1988), Welcome in Paradise (1991), All Hell (original Voice and battery, 1995), Communists in the sun (2007) and the girl from Monday (2011). Often it plays in several concerts.

Venditti in 1986 he composed the soundtrack of a film of his friend director Carlo Verdone, entitled Too strong.

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Roma Capoccia - Antonello Venditti

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Rome foreman is included in an album (theorius campus) which sees the simultaneous onset of Antonello Venditti and Francesco De Gregori, both coming from Folkstudio, an alternative venue located in a basement in the heart of Rome. Friends of the two say that Antonello a bit 'ashamed of this song, which was almost never performed in the evenings Folkstudio because too little "busy."
It was Rome foreman instead, the song that gave him fame (De Gregori, despite having participated in the album with four songs alone, plus two sung with Venditti, had to wait for the next Alice to leave the anonymity): dialect gave the right coloring to the verses and was used in a non-free; the music was not a meager accompaniment to the text, as it was in those years for the songwriting, but a real orchestral arrangement; Blood voice and a way to beat the piano keys, similar to the then young Elton John technique, did the rest.

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Ci vorrebbe un amico - Antonello Venditti

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Written by the singer in Rome in 1983, after being left by then his partner Simona Izzo in favor of Maurizio Costanzo, the song also contains a precise reference to the conductor "The rest is life was" in fact, was the phrase with which the popular anchorman he was then usually close all the episodes of his show Costanzo. The author replaced, for issues of opportunity, in some steps towards the indicted "however it's over."
The song quickly gained the favor of the public, especially among the very young. It was included in the album "Heart" which won the best-selling album of the year as Vela d'Oro 1984.

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Dalla pelle al cuore - Antonello Venditti

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From skin to heart, released November 16, 2007, it is the twenty-fourth album of the Italian singer Antonello Venditti.
The first single from the skin to the heart, has been made available for digital download from October 12, on ITunes Store.

The album has two special guests saxophonist Gato Barbieri and Carlo Verdone on drums. The Roman singer presented the disc in several television shows, including What time ago, the train of desires and Scalo 76.

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Che tesoro che sei - Antonello Venditti

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What a treasure you are is a song of the twentieth album by Antonello Venditti in 1999. The video of the first single from this album, In this world you can not understand it was filmed by the director of Train de vie, Radu Mihăileanu. The cover depicts a firmament in the twenty-first century debut through the reworking of a picturesque ancient image; the stars are in the zodiac signs as, ideally, visible from Rome at the stroke of 2000.

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Alta Marea - Antonello Venditti

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The great success High tide by Antonello Venditti

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