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Quel Punto
''Quel punto'' is a studio album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1994 on his label Clan. The track "Il seme del rap" is a rap remake of Celentano's old hit "Prisencolinensinainciusol" — the song with which, as the singer has claimed, he invented rap Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backin .... Sometime after release, the album was withdrawn from stores. Officially it was done due to copyright problems. But it has been speculated that it was because of low sales and the controversy surrounding the title track, "Quel punto". Soon after, Celentano, for the first time in 15 years, went on a concert tour. Accompanying him on the tour was his daughter Rosita, who was promoting her album titled ''FDM''. Track listing Charts References {{Authority co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed ''Il Molleggiato'' ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical success. With around 150 million records sold worldwide, he is List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists, the second best-selling Italian musical artist. Often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in collaboration with others. Due to his prolific career, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the pillars of Music of Italy, Italian music. Celentano is recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business and is credited for having introduced rock and roll to Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 films, mostly comedies. Early life Celentano was born on 6 January 1938 in Milan, Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Celentano
Clan Celentano is an Italian record label founded by Adriano Celentano in the early 1960s. Artists who have recorded for the label include Don Backy, Fred Bongusto, Milena Cantù, Adriano Celentano, Maria Luigia Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, Ola & the Janglers, Valeria Rigano, Anthony Swete and Johnny Tame. Background In 1962, Adriano Celentano left SAAR and formed the Clan Celentano record label. Founded in March that year, the label set about finding new artists. The first releases were Italian the version of the Gene McDaniels' song, " Tower of Strength" ("Stai Lontana Da Me") and "Sei Rimasta Sola". Both records were Top 20 chart successes. The label originally rejected a singer called Agaton. They weren't interested in his recorded music either. But, Milena Cantù who was Adriano Celentano's current girlfriend wanted to hear the recordings again. As a result, they signed him up and gave him a new stage name of Don Backy. He would later have issues with the label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Re Degli Ignoranti
''Il re degli ignoranti'' is a studio album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1991 on his label Clan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding member or apical ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Many societie .... This album marked the singer's comeback from his voluntary retirement of several years. This time, he worked with a new team of arrangers, updating his sound to a more current. The album is difficult to classify as a single genre; it ranges from rock to pop, to electronic, to symphonic. It has been noted that while the album might not have been of "high quality", it brought the singer back into the charts and into public limelight. Celentano would even subsequently return on television, working with Bruno Gambarotta once again. Track listing Charts References {{Authority control Adriano Celentano a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrivano Gli Uomini
Arrivano gli uomini ''Arrivano gli uomini'' is a studio album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1996 on his label Clan A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, a clan may claim descent from a founding member or apical ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Many societie .... Track listing Charts References {{Authority control Adriano Celentano albums 1996 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corriere Della Sera
(; ) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, clericalism, and Giovanni Giolitti, who was willing to compromise with those forces during his time as prime minister of Italy. Albertini's opposition to the Italian fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925. A representative of the moderate bourgeoisie, has always been generally considered centre-right-leaning, hosting in its columns liberal and democratic Catholic views. In the 21st century, its main competitors are Rome's and Turin's . Until the late 1970s and early 1980s, when the country underwent a nationalization proc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisencolinensinainciusol
"Prisencolinensinainciusol" (; stylized on the single cover as "PRİSENCÓLİNENSİNÁİNCIÚSOL") is a song composed by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori. It was released as a single in 1972. Both the name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish, but are intended to represent what American English sounds like to people who do not understand English. The song charted in several European countries. Background By the 1960s, Celentano was already one of the most popular Rock music, rock musicians in Italy, in large part due to his appearance at the Sanremo Music Festival in 1960 and the subsequent success of his song "24.000 baci". Martina Tanga writes that his artistic persona was characterised by "loud lyrics and inelegant body movements", which differentiated him from other singers of the time. Paolo Prato describes his style as "a bit of Elvis, a bit of Jerry Lewis, a bit of folk singer". "Prisencolinensinainciusol" w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurizio Fabrizio
Maurizio Fabrizio (born 16 March 1952) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, producer, musician and singer-songwriter. Life and career Born in Milan, after studying at the conservatory in 1969 Fabrizio became a member of the La Scala orchestra as a percussionist under the direction of Claudio Abbado. In 1970 he formed a musical duo with his brother Popi, Maurizio e Fabrizio, recording several singles and entering the main competition at the 21st edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. In 1972 he started a long and fruitful collaboration as arranger and producer with Angelo Branduardi, and also began collaborating as composer and arranger with other artists including Ornella Vanoni, Patty Pravo and Mia Martini. After recording some solo albums between 1975 and 1980, starting from the early 1980s Fabrizio devoted himself to composing, often teaming with lyricist Guido Morra. His collaborations include Eros Ramazzotti, Renato Zero, Riccardo Fogli, Miguel Bosé, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luciano Beretta
Luciano Beretta (1 January 1928 – 11 January 1994) was an Italian lyricist, best known for his long collaboration with Adriano Celentano. Life and career Born in Milan, Beretta was the son of a driver and a tailor, and had a degree in accounting. In the second half of the 1950s, after experiences as an actor, a dancer, a choreographer, and a production designer, he started her prolific career as a lyricist; hit songs he penned include Caterina Caselli's " Nessuno mi può giudicare", Milva's "Monica delle bambole", Orietta Berti's "Tu sei quello", Fausto Leali's "Un'ora fa", Domenico Modugno's "Questa è la mia vita". He was for over 20 years a close collaborator of Adriano Celentano, penning some of his best known songs, including " Il ragazzo della via Gluck", " Chi non lavora non fa l'amore", "La coppia più bella del mondo ", "Mondo in mi 7a", "Una carezza in un pugno", " Si è spento il sole"; his collaborations also include Mina, Gianni Morandi, Ornella Vanoni, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Santercole
Gino Santercole (21 November 1940 – 8 June 2018) was an Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He was well known for his breakthrough hit "Questo vecchio pazzo mondo" ("This old crazy world"), a cover of P. F. Sloan's " Eve of Destruction", and for the song "Ma che freddo stasera (Such a Cold Night Tonight)" that he sang in the movie ''Yuppi du'' (1975). Life Early life Santercole was born in Milan, Italy, on 21 November 1940. His family is originally from the south eastern region of Apulia. Santercole's mother, Rosa, was the sister of the singer-songwriter, comedian, and movie director Adriano Celentano. Santercole lost his father as a child. He spent some years in college, and was then forced to go to work by himself. He was fond of rock n' roll, and in his free time he learned to play the guitar. Celentano recruited Santercole for his group, the Rock Boys, when his second guitarist, Ico Cerutti, left the group. Santercole became a Rock Boy just in time to par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Mori
Claudia Moroni (born 12 February 1944), known as Claudia Mori, is an Italian producer, retired actress and singer. Biography 1960s She began her career in show business as an actress playing in musicals, then in major films such as ''Rocco and His Brothers'' by Luchino Visconti and ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' by Robert Aldrich. In 1963, she met Adriano Celentano on the film set of ''Uno strano tipo''. Celentano left his girlfriend Milena Cantù, and in 1964 he secretly married Claudia at the church of San Francesco in Grosseto. She bore three children: Rosita (1965), Giacomo (1966) and Rosalinda (1968). In 1964, she acted in ''Super rapina a Milano'', the first film directed by Celentano. Thereafter, her acting career was on hiatus, in favor of that as singer, in 1964, in fact, with ''Non guardarmi'', she recorded her first album. The flip side of the vinyl record includes a cover of Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion". She achieved a big success while singing with her husband, in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
