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Infobox musical artist | name = Roberto Vecchioni| image = Roberto Vecchioni.jpg| caption =| background = solo_singer| birth_date = Birth date and age|1943|6|25|df=yes| death_date =| origin = Milan , Italy | genre = Pop music|Pop , Rock music|Rock | occupation = Singer-songwriter , Writer | years_active = 1966–present| label = Durium Records|Durium , Italdisc, Ducale, Philips Records|Philips , Ciao, Compagnia Generale del Disco|CGD , EMI | website = Url| http://www.robertovecchioni.com/|www.robertovecchioni.com Roberto Vecchioni (born 25 June 1943) is an Italian people|Italian singer-songwriter and writer.
Biography
Vecchioni was born in Carate Brianza , province of Milan , to a family of Naples|Neapolitan origin. In 1968 he graduated in Classical Literature at the Università Cattolica of Milan , where he remained for two years as assistant lecturer of History of Religion. Later he become literature and history teacher in a Milanese High School, an activity he continues to this day.
His career in the Italian music industry began in the late 1960s as songwriter for Italian pop stars including Ornella Vanoni , Gigliola Cinquetti , Mina (singer)|Mina , Iva Zanicchi . His first solo album was Parabola (album)|Parabola of 1971. In 1973 he took part in the Sanremo Festival with "L'uomo che si gioca il cielo a dadi", continuing to release works as singer-songwriter in the following years. His 1974 LP, Il re non si diverte , obtained the Best Year's Album Award from the Italian musical critics. In 1976 he published his first commercial success, Elisir (Roberto Vecchioni album)|Elisir , but he gained public recognition only in the following year, with Samarcanda (album)|Samarcanda . With this work Vecchioni was acclaimed as one of the most skillful italian singer-songwriters : his inspiration draws mainly from autobiographical themes, intermingled with dreamy, literary and historical (often mythological) ones. His friend Angelo Branduardi played violin on the LP.
Vecchioni's skills were confirmed in the following works, Calabuig, Stranamore e altri incidenti (1978), where the literary citations predominated, and in Robinson (come salvarsi la vita) (1979), where instead the autobiographical inspiration prevails. The songs "Signor giudice" and "Lettera da Marsala" of the latter work deal with the problems Vecchioni had had in the preceding years: respectively, a charge for marijuana possession (from which he was acquitted) and a dispute with his former record label. The following album, Montecristo (album)|Montecristo , was released indeed by both the old and the new labels.
After Hollywood Hollywood of 1982, whose songs are influenced by the world of cinema, Vecchioni in 1984 released the double LP Il grande sogno ("The Big Dream"), in which he collected new songs together with new versions of his past hits. The title track featured Francesco De Gregori playing blues harp . The LP was accompanied by his first literary attempt, a short book with the same name. Many of the cover of Vecchioni's LPs of this period were disegned by the famous Italian comic book artist and painter Andrea Pazienza .
While continuing a successful career as a renowned singer-songwriter in the 1980s and the 1990s, Vecchioni spent more time writing. His prose includes the collection Viaggi nel tempo immobile (1996) and the novels Le parole non portano le cicogne (2000) and Il libraio di Selinunte . He also lectured on the History of Italian Songwriting in a tour lasting two years, and was called to author the Enciclopedia Treccani article about Italian singer-songwriters. His best more recent works include Sogna ragazzo sogna ("Dream, boy, dream") of 1999 and Il lanciatore di coltelli ("The Knife Thrower") of 2002.
On 19 February 2011 he won the Sanremo Music Festival 2011|61st Sanremo Music Festival http://www.riviera24.it/articoli/2011/02/20/104049/festival-sanremo-2011-vince-roberto-vecchioni-2-posto-per-emma-e-i-moda-e-3-al-bano and the "Mia Martini" Critics' Award http://www.riviera24.it/articoli/2011/02/19/104045/festival-sanremo-2011-roberto-vecchioni-vince-il-premio-della-critica-mia-martini with the song "Chiamami ancora amore" ("Call me Love again").
Discography
Parabola (album)|Parabola ( 1971 in music|1971 )
Saldi di fine stagione ( 1972 in music|1972 )
Il re non si diverte ( 1974 in music|1974 )
Barbapapà (1975)
Ipertensione ( 1975 in music|1975 )
Elisir (Roberto Vecchioni album)|Elisir ( 1976 in music|1976 )
Samarcanda (album)|Samarcanda ( 1977 in music|1977 )
Robinson (come salvarsi la vita) ( 1980 in music|1980 )
Calabuig, stranamore e altri incidenti (1978)
Montecristo (album)|Montecristo (1980)
Hollywood Hollywood ( 1982 in music|1982 )
Il grande sogno ( 1984 in music|1984 )
Live @ RTSI ( 1984 in music|1984 , live)
Bei tempi ( 1985 in music|1985 )
Ippopotami ( 1986 in music|1986 )
Milady (album)|Milady ( 1989 in music|1989 )
Per amore mio ( 1991 in music|1991 )
Camper (album)|Camper ( 1992 in music|1992 , live collection)
Blumùn ( 1993 in music|1993 )
Il cielo capovolto ( 1995 in music|1995 )
Vecchioni studio collection ( 1997 in music|1997 )
El bandolero stanco ( 1997 in music|1997 )
Sogna ragazzo sogna ( 1999 in music|1999 )
Canzoni e cicogne ( 2000 in music|2000 , live collection)
Il lanciatore di coltelli ( 2002 in music|2002 )
Le ballate ( 2002 in music|2002 )
Rotary Club of Malindi ( 2004 in music|2004 )
Il contastorie ( 2005 in music|2005 , double live collection)
Di rabbia e di stelle ( 2007 in music|2007 )
In Cantus ( 2009 in music|2009 , live collection)
Chiamami ancora amore ( 2011 in music|2011 )
Bibliography
Il grande sogno (book)|Il grande sogno ( 1984 in literature|1984 )
Viaggi nel tempo immobile ( 1996 in literature|1996 , short story collection), Giulio Einaudi|Einaudi , Turin
Le parole non potrano le cicogne ( 2000 in literature|2000 ), Einaudi Turin
Il libraio di Selinunte ( 2004 in literature|2004 ), Einaudi, Turin
Diario di un gatto con gli stivali ( 2006 in literature|2006 ), Einaudi, Turin
'' Di sogni e d'amore ( 2007 in literature|2007 ), Frassinelli
Volevo. Ed erano voli ( 2008 in literature|2008 ), Pescecapone
Scacco a Dio ( 2009 in literature|2009 ), Einaudi, Turin
References
Persondata | NAME = Vecchioni, Roberto | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH = 25 June 1943 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Vecchioni, Roberto Category:1943 births Category:Living people Category:Italian singer-songwriters Category:Italian writers Category:People from the Province of Milan Category:Cancer survivors Category:Sanremo Music Festival winners Category:Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni
