Piero Pintucci (born 8 January 1943) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist.

Life and career

Born in

Fiesole Fiesole () is a town and ''comune'' of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a scenic height above Florence, 5 km (3 miles) northeast of that city. It has structures dating to Etruscan and Roman times. ...

, the son of two musicians, Pintucci studied piano at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in

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.Ernesto Bassignano. "Pintucci, Piero". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. p. 1346. Put under contract as an arranger by

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, he got his first success arranging

Gianni Morandi Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. It is estimated that Morandi has sold about 50 million recordings. Early life Born in Monghidoro, Emilia-Romagna, the son of a cobbler, Mor ...

's single " C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones".Enrico Deregibus. "Piero Pintucci". ''Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana''. Giunti Editore, 2010. p. 368. . Starting from the late 1960s,, he was also active as a composer, collaborating among others with

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Patty Pravo Nicoletta Strambelli (born 9 April 1948), known professionally as Patty Pravo, is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in p ...

and

Nicola Di Bari Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music. Life and career Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children from a ...

, for whom he composed the

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winning song " I giorni dell'arcobaleno". In the mid-1970s, Pintucci started a long collaboration as producer, composer and arranger with

Renato Zero Renato Fiacchini (born 30 September 1950), known by the stage name Renato Zero (), is an Italian singer-songwriter, producer, dancer and actor whose career spans from the 1960s to the 2020s. Zero is the only artist to have reached the top of t ...

, signing the music of his signature song "

Il carrozzone "Il carrozzone" (lit. "The bandwagon") is a 1979 Italian song composed by Piero Pintucci (music) and Franca Evangelisti (lyrics) and performed by Renato Zero. It is the lead single of the album ''EroZero''. The song, which has death as main th ...

". He often collaborated with

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and

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as a composer of scores and conductor of TV shows, such as

Raffaella Carrà Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni (18 June 1943 – 5 July 2021), known professionally as Raffaella Carrà () and sometimes mononymously as Raffaella, was an Italian singer, dancer, actress, television presenter and model. She is often widely cons ...

's ''Carramba''. He also composed the music of the stage musicals ''Fratelli'' and ''Gaetanaccio'', both starring

Gigi Proietti Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (2 November 1940 – 2 November 2020) was an Italian actor, dubber, comedian, singer and television presenter. Early life He was born in Rome to Romano Proietti, originally from Umbria, and Giovanna Ceci, a housewife. Dur ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pintucci, Piero 1943 births Living people People from Fiesole Italian composers Italian music arrangers Italian male songwriters Italian songwriters Italian conductors (music)