Loredana Bertè

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Loredana Berte (Bagnara, September 20, 1950) is an Italian singer-songwriter.

younger sister Mia Martini (1947-1995), with which it shares the day and month of birth, is one of the most famous and beloved Italian interpreters [2], also recognized by the press as one of the most representative icons of the Italian rock.

Artist characterized by a strong and intense vocal and interpretive personality who is highly debated for complex personal vicissitudes, has a long musical career during which he recorded more than 200 songs, including 46 written by her writings with regard to the literary part [7], managing to sell about 7 million albums with 16 singles and 11 albums placed in the top 20 of the Italian charts.

The highest position she reached in the hit-parade of best-selling singles is number 2 with I'm a lady 15 October 1982 [9], while for the Italian album chart, the highest position reached is always number 2 with albums BabyBertè (in September 2005 [10]) and Friends I have no friends ... But yes! (April 2016). This latter work, however, has simultaneously debuted at 1st place in the ranking of the best selling vinyl, published by the FIMI April 8, 2016.

In 2015, the popular weekly TV Sorrisi e Canzoni has included among the top ten artists considered "one between the absolute numbers of Italian music"  never to have reached the top of the ranking of best-selling albums.

Albums of greatest commercial success are moving (1982) and Jazz (1983), with more than 250,000 copies sold each. In 2012, the specialized music magazine Rolling Stone has judged moving (produced by Ivano Fossati) the best record work performed by a woman in Italy. The album, which also earned him his first platinum album, was released in autumn 1982, when according to a survey DOXA, the Bertè proved the most popular Italian singer after Mina and Ornella Vanoni , as well as winning the Festivalbar and to be rewarded as a female artist of the year in the competition Vote voice, announced by TV Sorrisi e Canzoni: are all over the five telegatti assigned to Bertè as best singer of the year, elected winner in 1977, 1979, 1982, 1985 and 1986.

After several film experiences, horse theater and television between the late sixties and early seventies, who see it working again as an actress and dancer, began his singing career after the artistic encounter with the Oscar winner Bill Conti, and thanks to 'intuition record Alfredo Cerruti, obtained a contract with the CGD, which initially try to cast it as a sexy singer, having regard to its undeniable beauty.

In 1975 he made his first notable success record with're beautiful, a song in which he reveals for the first time an unexpected voice capabilities, in support of an interpretation of great emotional impact. Following the beginning of a long artistic and sentimental relationship with the musician and producer Mario Lavezzi, during which the Berté becomes the first Italian interpreter with a strong rock connotation to penetrate the national market, contributing to a renewal of the role of the singer. Many of his texts, quite unusual for the Italian music scene of the time and for what the women especially, in fact, deal with topics such as sex, drugs, depression, metropolitan marginalization, war, feminism. On his determination and his irreverence on songs like Better free are sewn (1976) and Tales (1977) that receive a good reception.

The true artistic consecration takes place at the end of the seventies, when the singer appears determined to take an artistic journey that will take her to the songwriting starting to collaborate with Ivano Fossati which affects Dedicated (1978). Increasingly Fossati, who from 1982 to 1984 is also its producer, I'm not a lady, a real song-manifesto of Berté with which he won the Festivalbar. The song became her best-selling single in Italy with about 500 000 copies. But his biggest ever commercial success remains And knocked moon (1979), song with which the artist manages to clear definitely the sounds reggae in Italy entering ranking also in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and other countries South America.

After reggae, with the coming of the eighties, the Berté confirms the singer more receptive towards new trends and new styles of music, through experimentation with other genres such as funky (1980) and rap (1981), publishing So many works of international scope: it sings on in London, New York, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, working with musicians of the caliber of Corrado Rustici, Phil Palmer, and the Brazilian Djavan, which devotes an entire LP in 1985 ( Carioca), who sees it for the first time as producer.

His career suffered a major setback at the end of the decade, when the bride Berté the famous Swedish tennis player Björn Borg: a particularly discussed and very stormy marriage, who is herself to stop in 1992 and emerged visibly marked.

His return in the role of songwriter, sealed by one of his best works, Officially missing, sees it launch new successes by the strongly autobiographical flavor, among which include I miss you (1993) and Friends I have not (1994). But it is the tragic death of his sister Mia Martini in 1995, she certainly traumatic event and causal factor of undeniable depression, to mark a new watershed in his personal and professional path, influencing his musical activities, more and more difficult and troubled.

The years that follow see her write and produce firsthand some jobs that receive rave reviews, though interrupted by long periods of artistic silence: in 1997, on the occasion of his participation in the Sanremo Festival with the song Luna, one of the best in the his career, Fabrizio De André the praises "for the courage and intelligence that few women possess" also praising its author capacity "is one of the few who can really write lyrics ," in reference to 'album a fighter robin (title taken from a poem by De André), which also contains the touching Friday Zone, the first song she dedicated to the missing sister.
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Geno

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E la luna bussò - Loredana Berte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eNu18ao4-8

E la luna bussò is one of the best known songs of the repertoire of Loredana Berte, published in the summer of 1979 to anticipate the Bandabertè album's release. The highest position reached is the number 6 in week number 38 of 1979. The single remains in the Italian top ten for 8 consecutive weeks, while it remains in the top 50 for 22 weeks from the week number 29 to number 50, selling, only in Italy, 400,000 copies (TV Sorrisi e Canzoni source).

In the annual ranking of the 45 it is located at position 19 of the best-selling singles in 1979 (TV Sorrisi e Canzoni source).

The song was composed by Mario Lavezzi with Oscar Avogadro and Daniele Pace ; the same Lavezzi he signed the arrangement for four hands with Anthony Rutherford Mimms  and produced .

The song was presented at the Festivalbar 1979 and also appears in its compilation.

The single was also published in Germany (in Italian with "On the high seas" in the B side - song of 1980 included LP Loredana Berte) and Spain (along with City Crowds in side B engraved both in Spanish).

... He knocked the moon was able to get into the ranking also in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany and South America, becoming over the years the most notable artist's commercial success, after 45 laps I am not a lady.

The song became one of the biggest hits of 1979: although not earned the top spot in the standings, helped the Bandabertè album, the fourth of the Calabrian singer, to climb in the standings, and the singer to earn some credibility " live "with the group called, precisely, Bandabertè.

Crazy city, the B side of the single, was written by Avogadro and Alberto Radius, which is also influenced by the music styles of reggae.
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Geno

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Il Mare d'inverno - Loredana Bertè

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgfJq2kA1As

Il Mare d'inverno is a song of the Italian singer Loredana Berte, published in 1983 in the album Jazz.

The song, written by Enrico Ruggeri Luigi Schiavone music is among the most famous singer.

Ruggeri said that the inspiration of the song was given to him by the Marche town of Marotta in the province of Pesaro Urbino, where he spent with his mother and aunts her teenage holidays, even tornandoci later. The song can be considered as a long poem about loneliness. Ruggeri describes usually cheerful images that in the winter gloom become like a movie in black and white, but that reveal deep feelings and unpublished. The sea is seen as the very emblem of solitude: large deep and menacing. A solitude which is only covered by the arrival of summer and by swimmers who flock to the beaches with open umbrellas and discos full of lies. Loneliness that can come suddenly like the wind that shakes the sea.

The song, produced by Ivano Fossati, has never been published in single in Italy, to promote sales of the entire LP, but there are 3 45 laps of the song published in the Netherlands, Spain and U.R.S.S.

It also appears in the album of Ruggeri Presente 1984.
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Geno

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Sei Bellissima - Loredana Bertè

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il6bghZWAfM

You look beautiful you are one of the best known songs of Loredana Berte; with this song, written by Claudio Daiano for text and Gian Pietro Felisatti for music [5], the singer participated in a disc for the summer edition of 1975, however, being eliminated. In contrast, the song got a good sales success, which resulted in one of the most known songs and most successful of Berté. It was the first 45 laps of the singer to reach the top 10 and, at the same time, to overcome the threshold of one hundred thousand copies.

The song was published in the first version of the album, in April, in the censored version with the text by the record company (the verses "to bed I always said / not worth a bit 'more than anything," replaced by "and then I always said / not worth a bit 'more than anything ") and in the second, in July, with the original text .

In 1985 it was included in the soundtrack of the film The Mass is ended by Nanni Moretti.
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Geno

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Dedicato - Loredana Bertè

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1gGPuYMmN8

The piece, written by Ivano Fossati, was a great success, becoming one of the singer's most famous songs.

Included in the Bandabertè album, reached the peak of the fifth position in hit-parade, and the thirty-sixth in the ranking of the best-selling singles in Italy in 1978. The song was also recorded in English and Spanish, and subsequently also marketed in the French market , German and Brazilian.

Dedicato definitively opened the doors of the television circuits to Berté, despite the censorship of the verse "to fair politicians", in favor of an inoffensive "to the face I have tonight"; Berté, however, always sang the song with the original verse from the living.

In the same year, the piece was also recorded by Gianni Morandi with the original text without censorship.

The following year he was translated into French and taken over by Dalida with the title of Dédié à toi, also giving the title to the homonymous album of the Franco-Italian artist of 1979.

Also in 1979 Dedicato was engraved by Fossati himself and included in the album La mia banda plays rock.

In 2002 the showman Fiorello and the singer Elisa duet in Dedicate during an episode in the program Tonight I pay.

In 2014 Emma also performed the song during the Gallipoli stage of the Emma Limited Edition Tour, in duet with Berté herself.

At the same time, Gianna Nannini recorded the song on her cover album Hitalia.

In 2016 Noemi reinterpreted the song at the Sanremo Festival, ranking fourth in the evening cover. The same Loredana Bertè on Twitter has complimented the Roman singer by defining her cover as the best ever. In fact, two months later the celebrative album was released on the occasion of Bertè's forty-year career, entitled Amici I do not have any ... But, my friends, yes! (produced by Fiorella Mannoia), in which Dedicato is presented in a duet with Noemi.
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