Bruno Mario Lavezzi (born 8 May 1948) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and guitarist.
Life and career
Born in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...
, he studied piano and guitar at the Scuola Civica di Milano.
He started his career in 1963, as the singer and guitarist for the band The Trappers.
In 1966, following the dissolution of the band, he replaced
Riki Maiocchi in the
I Camaleonti until 1968, when he had to leave the band after being drafted into the Italian army.
[ In 1969 he debuted as a composer with the Dik Dik hit " Il primo giorno di primavera".][ In 1970 he co-founded the pop-rock group Flora Fauna e Cemento, then in 1974 he was part of the ]progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
musical project Il Volo
Il Volo (; Italian for "The Flight") is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of baritone Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as "popera". Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 20 ...
.[ In the second half of the 1970s Lavezzi started a solo career as singer-songwriter; he also started collaborating as a composer and a record producer for several albums of ]Loredana Bertè
Loredana Bertè (; born 20 September 1950) is an Italian singer and actress. In her long career she has worked with prominent Italian songwriters such as Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Mango and Enrico Ruggeri, among others; her sis ...
.[ He later wrote songs for many notable artists, including ]Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.
Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, an ...
, Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer.
Early life
Gian Luigi Morandi was born in a little village called Monghidoro on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. His father Renato was active within the ...
, Anna Oxa, Spagna, Marcella Bella, Ornella Vanoni
Ornella Vanoni (; born 22 September 1934) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actress. She is one of the longest-standing Italian artists, having started performing in 1956. She has released about 112 works between LP, EPs and greatest hits alb ...
, Fiorella Mannoia,
Discography
; Albums
* 1974 - ''Il Volo''
* 1976 - ''Iaia''
* 1978 - ''Filobus''
* 1979 - ''Cartolina''
* 1983 - ''Agrodolce''
* 1984 - ''Guardandoti, sfiorandoti''
* 1991 - ''Voci''
* 1993 - ''Voci 2''
* 1997 - ''Voci e chitarre''
* 1999 - ''Senza catene''
* 2004 - ''Passionalità''
* 2009 - ''A più voci''
* 2011 - ''L'amore è quando c'è''
References
External links
*
Mario Lavezzi
at Discogs
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Singers from Milan
1948 births
Italian pop singers
Italian composers
Italian male composers
Italian singer-songwriters
Living people
Italian record producers
Italian guitarists