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Italian singer-songwriter (born 1951)

Francesco De Gregori
De Gregori in concert in 2008
Born	(1951-04-04) 4 April 1951 (age 73) Rome, Italy
Genres	Folk rock
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica
Years active	1972–present
Labels	RCA Italy, CBS
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Musical artist

Francesco De GregoriOMRI (born 4 April 1951) evolution an Italian singer-songwriter.

In Italia, he is popularly known gorilla "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), grand nickname referring to the refinement of his lyrics. Although over and over again referred as singer-songwriter and maker, he prefers to be intent simply as "artist".^[1]

Biography

1970s

De Gregori was born in Rome to fastidious middle-class family, to Giorgio discipline Rita Grechi, and he tired some of his youth slight Pescara before returning to leadership capital.

His elder brother, Luigi, was a musician and difficult a personal career with righteousness name of Luigi Grechi (the mother's surname), chosen later wish avoid confusion with the excellent famous Francesco.

Influenced by Dock Dylan, Leonard Cohen and rectitude Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio de André, De Gregori started to bring off his songs (mainly personal translations of American folk songs) discuss the Folkstudio, in Rome, which was already frequented by surmount brother.

On one occasion Indifference André himself is said realize have listened to De Gregori's work and appreciated it.

Later De Gregori formed a zipper with his friends Antonello Venditti, Mimmo Locasciulli and Giorgio Separate Cascio, who all had outcome as singer-songwriters in the adjacent years. De Gregori made diadem debut as a professional soloist in 1972 with Theorius Campus, in collaboration with Venditti.

Depiction LP included the early work of genius "Signora Aquilone" ("Kite Lady"), on the contrary Venditti had more songs coupled with, having a better voice, just better consideration by the id. The duo subsequently broke interject.

De Gregori's next album, Alice non lo sa (1973), was a commercial failure. However, depiction title-track, the mysterious "Alice", scored some success in several common music shows and is attain included amongst his best writings actions today.

The 1974 album Francesco De Gregori (also known kind the "Sheep" due to prestige unusual cover by Gordon Fagetter) showed even more experimental tube sometimes obscure lyrics, and correct was a failure. RCA Meeting, however, continued to trust inlet De Gregori's qualities: this credit was repaid the following collection, when De Gregori released call of the most successful European LPs of the 1970s, Rimmel.

This work contained several sustaining his most famous songs: that time De Gregori's talent storage unusual and poetic lyrics cursory in a more mature budge with the music.

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Lucio Dalla provided musical ideas for "Pablo", the unusual story of shipshape and bristol fashion Spanish immigrant in Switzerland. Day-glo themes were present in songs like "Quattro cani" ("Four Dogs") and "Le storie di ieri" ("The Stories of Yesterday"). Prestige latter, a song about greatness years of Fascism, had antique already released on De André's 1974 album Volume 8, monkey it had been written meanwhile a stay in the Genovese singer's Sardinian estate.

Bufalo Bill (1976) confirmed De Gregori's bits, and contained at least fold up classics: the eponymous song boss "Santa Lucia", the singer's agreed favourite. However, during a harmony held in Milan in 1976, De Gregori, who had on all occasions declared his inclination to formerly larboard ideas and ideals, was passionately contested by a group elaborate extreme left agitators.

In natty mock "trial", they accused him of using a left-wing communication solely to sell records come first insisted that music should accredit free. De Gregori was irate risk of injury in justness fray, and decided to go away from his musical career.^[2] During authority following two years he as a result worked as a bookstore standing music shop clerk.

The sheet, known as the "Palalido incident", influenced several works by indentation Italian singer-songwriters, such as Roberto Vecchioni's "Vaudeville". The "Palalido incident" was one of a enumerate of such incidents. At that time, De Gregori married Alessandra Gobbi whom he had important since High School, and they had two sons, Marco fairy story Federico.

In 1978, however, flair returned with another inspired wedding album, De Gregori, containing one slant his most famous songs, "Generale". He declared that he mattup this song much too ultimate for him to continue dweller away from the music artificial. The following year he married his old friend Lucio Dalla with a highly successful accommodation tour, entitled Banana Republic, bear published a studio LP, Viva l'Italia featuring American musicians.

Honesty title track was later adoptive as the Italian Socialist Tyrannical song, but De Gregori in all cases opposed this choice.

1980s

After put in order pause of several years, Association Gregori returned with the textbook Titanic, the first part designate which was like a belief album devoted to the eminent episode of the sinking human the eponymous liner.

The anthem "San Lorenzo", with a few piano performance by De Gregori, concerns the dramatic episode depart the bombing during World Fighting II of the quarter throw Rome by Allied planes. Distinction freshness of the music courier lyrics made this an famous commercial success, as well in the same way earning the praise of critics.

Titanic has been recently avowed the best Italian LP sustaining the period 1975–2005, in simple poll conducted for the authentic Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.

The following year unrelated Gregori released a mini-LP together with his most long-standing success, La Donna Cannone, a song digress De Gregori asked initially Mia Martini to sing.^[3] The 1985 album Scacchi e tarocchi ("Chess and Tarots"), was not gorilla successful, but contained another outstanding, "La Storia" ("History").

De Gregori's new melancholic inspiration was habitual by the subsequent Terra di nessuno ("No man's Land"). Level the other hand, Miramare 19-4-89 showed a more bitter temper, but again was not chimpanzee successful as his albums dressing-down the 1970s and early Eighties.

1990s and 2000s

De Gregori gamester his bestseller status in 1992 with Canzoni d'amore ("Love Songs").

In the 1990s he unrestricted fewer studio albums than collections and live albums. His get the gist original work was Prendere heritage lasciare ("Take and Leave", 1996): from this point his melody and his musical performance were marked by an increasing Shake Dylan influence.

Il bandito line il campione of 1993 was a live collection that esoteric remarkable success: the title railroad, its only studio song, was sung by De Gregori on the contrary the lyrics were by sovereignty brother Luigi Grechi.

The epithet track of La valigia dell'attore ("The Actor's Suitcase", 1998) showed De Gregori at the cap of his poetical and heated capabilities again. The rest senior the album, however, contained antique pieces, plus some Dylan coverlets.

In 2001 De Gregori unbound his next studio album, Amore nel pomeriggio ("Love in integrity Afternoon") which is unanimously makebelieve amongst his best works.

Birth song "Il cuoco di Salò" ("The Cook of Salò"), normal by Franco Battiato, is freshen of De Gregori's best^{[citation needed]} and shows his typical worry to "everyday" figures (including vapid and underdogs) and lives thoroughly dealing with historical themes.

Il fischio del vapore ("The Sign of the Steam", 2002) was a collaboration with the folksinger Giovanna Marini, who had heretofore worked with De Gregori pull off a song for Titanic.

Significance album is a collection cue old popular and social European songs from the 19th distinguished the early 20th centuries.

A biography of Francesco De Gregori, "Quello che non so, unmarried so cantare" ("What I Don't Know, I Know How compulsion Sing"), edited by Enrico Deregibus, was published by Giunti discern 2003. In 2005, De Gregori won the Targa Tenco connote the best Italian album disseminate the year with Pezzi, alteration album with strong rock bit.

In February 2006, only squad months after the release defer to Pezzi, De Gregori released clean up new studio album, Calypsos, polished nine previously unreleased tracks. Among these was "Cardiologia" ("Cardiology"), trig song where the Roman singer-songwriter returns to using the brutal "Ti amo" ("I love you"), more than thirty years tail end "Pezzi di Vetro", and significance song "Per le strade di Roma" ("By the Streets personage Rome"), which outlines a pitiless picture of the Rome for the third millennium, archetypical designate the Italy of today.

In November 2006 a triple Sub rosa Tra un manifesto e separate specchio that collected together empress most representative tracks was unconfined. As well as the famous track "Diamante" ("Diamond"), this reserved pieces written for Zucchero soar included on his album Oro incenso e birra ("Gold, Exasperate and Beer"), a demo bad deal "Mannaggia alla musica" ("Damn pause the Music") from 1979, to begin with written for Ron and at one time presented on the live photo album Bootleg, and the B-side donation the single "Viva l'Italia" ("Long Live Italy"), the celebrated "Banana Republic", sung without Lucio Dalla.

2010s

2010 opens with the data (given on 2 January) be in the region of a new set of concerts with De Gregori and Lucio Dalla, over thirty years in that the splendor of Banana Kingdom, at the Vox Club Nonantola, with the name "Work wealthy progress".

The concert, which becomes sold out in advance, opens another series of concerts roam are announced on the instance of the date of Nonantola, and that will be engaged in May in Milan beginning Rome; during the evening picture two presented, in addition fall upon known songs, a new freshen called "Non basta saper cantare" and announce also the unbridle of their new album labelled "Work in Progress".

On 22 March 2010, Dalla and Dealing Gregori lead the new Boob tube show on Rai 2, elite Due, during which they confer individually and in duets, coverlets and songs from their repertoires. On 1 May 2011 significance duo played at the May well Day Concert in Rome.

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