Edoardo De Angelis (born 24 December 1945) is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer.
Life and career
Born in
Rome
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, De Angelis graduated from the
Liceo classico
The ''liceo classico'' or ''ginnasio'' () is the oldest public secondary education in Italy, secondary school type in Italy. Its educational curriculum spans over five years, when students are generally about 14 to 19 years of age.
Until 196 ...
Torquato Tasso and studied modern letters at the
Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome (), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a Public university, public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is ...
.
[Giannelli, Enzo (1990). "De Angelis, Edoardo". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore. pp.494-5.] Since the late 1960s he started performing at
Folkstudio
Folkstudio was a musical club and a record label located in Rome, Italy.
The club was founded in by the American painter, musician and actor Harold Bradley Jr., and was located in Via Garibaldi, in Trastevere.Ernesto Bassignano; Lalla Cantore. "F ...
, where he befriended
Francesco De Gregori, of whom he produced the first two albums.
In 1974 De Angelis was among the founding members of the vocal group
Schola Cantorum
The Schola Cantorum de Paris ( being ) is a private conservatory in Paris. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Bordes, Alexandre Guilmant and Vincent d'Indy as a counterbalance to the Paris Conservatoire's emphasis on opera.
History
The Schol ...
, with whom he also collaborated as a songwriter, but after 4 albums he left the group to reprise his solo activity.
He is best known for the song is "Lella", a ballad he composed and first recorded with his childhood friend Stelio Gicca Palli as "Edoardo e Stelio" and which later became a hit in a cover version of
Edoardo Vianello and
Wilma Goich.
De Angelis was the artistic director of the labels D'Autore and Cantare In Italiano.
He was also a columnist for the magazine ''
Ciao 2001'' and a radio host for
Radio 1.
Discography
* 1972 - ''Il paese dove nascono i limoni'' (Valiant, ZSLV 55047)
* 1977 - ''Il tuo cuore è casa mia'' (RCA Italiana, PL 31243)
* 1978 - ''Piccola storia di libertà'' (Polydor, 2448 069)
* 1979 - ''Edoardo De Angelis'' (Polydor, 2448 087)
* 1981 - ''Anche meglio di Garibaldi'' (Durium)
* 1982 - ''Cantare in italiano'' (Durium/Chewing music, CML 4001)
* 1984 - ''Mia madre parla a raffica'' (Spaghetti Records, SPRQ 401)
* 1986 - ''Cammina cammina'' (Virgin, dv 500)
* 1992 - ''Gara di sogni'' (Fonit Cetra, TPLX 311)
* 1994 - ''De Angelis'' (BMG, 74321146222)
* 1996 - ''Parole nel cuore'' (BMG, 743221337382)
* 1997 - ''Antologia d'autore'' (Tring)
* 2002 - ''Il coraggio delle parole'' (D'Autore, DA1004)
* 2004 - ''Antologia d'autore'' (D'Autore)
* 2005 - ''Le allodole di Shakespeare'' (D'Autore)
* 2008 - ''Historias'' (il manifesto, CD 188)
* 2010 - ''Te la ricordi Lella'' (Editrice Zona, libro + CD)
* 2011 - ''Sale di Sicilia'' (Rai Trade, RTP 0252)
* 2016 - ''Il cantautore necessario'' (Helikonia, HK 1609)
* 2018 - ''Nuove Canzoni'' (Musica del Sud/Il cantautore necessario)
References
External links
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1945 births
Living people
Musicians from Rome
Singers from Rome
Italian male singer-songwriters
20th-century Italian singer-songwriters
21st-century Italian singer-songwriters
20th-century Italian male singers
21st-century Italian male singers
Italian record producers
Italian lyricists
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
20th-century Italian guitarists
21st-century Italian guitarists