Sangue Misto was an Italian band, one of the first groups of
Italian hip hop
Italian hip hop started in the 1980s. One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Bologna's Isola Posse All Star, then and still today produced by Sandro Orru, who had written the soundtrack to the animat ...
. It was formed in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different na ...
in the early 1990s. Its members included
Neffa
Giovanni Pellino (born 7 October 1967), best known as Neffa, is an Italian singer-songwriter, rapper, composer, producer and musician.
Life and career
Born in Scafati, at young age Pellino moved to Bologna with his family. In the late 1980s he a ...
and Deda (rappers, producers), and
DJ Gruff (rapper, DJ, producer). Their only album, ''
SXM'' (1994), "revolutionized the world of italian rap forever"
[ and made the band "one of the most influential in the mid-1990s"][ in Italy.
]
Overview
Sangue Misto was one of the first groups of Italian hip hop
Italian hip hop started in the 1980s. One of the first hip hop crews to catch the attention of the Italian mainstream was Bologna's Isola Posse All Star, then and still today produced by Sandro Orru, who had written the soundtrack to the animat ...
; it was formed in Bologna in the early 1990s, "from the remains of the legendary Isola Posse All Stars Isola may refer to :
Places and jurisdictions
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* Isola, Alpes-Maritimes, a municipality in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
* Isola 2000, a village and ski resort of the municipality of Isola, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
* Is ...
",[ItalianRap.com, "Sangue Misto"] and its base point was the social center called the Isola nel Kantiere. In the beginning the group also included Papa Ricky, DJ Fabbri, and Gopher D, who left the group before its first release to dedicate themselves to raggamuffin and reggae music.[
Their debut album '' SXM'' was released in 1994, obtaining great underground support and becoming a model of genuine hip hop music even today but,][ because of the distribution, the record had marketing problems, so the original ''SXM'' in its first issue is somewhat rare.
After this every member left the band to pursue a solo career.
In 2005, ''SXM'' was remastered and re-issued.
]
Notes
References
* ItalianRap.com
"Sangue Misto"
Italian musical groups
Italian hip hop groups
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