Lucio Dalla Biography

 

Lucio Dalla is born in Bologna, March 4, 1943.

Seven years (1950) Lucio Dalla loses his father, who died died of a tumor, and the mother puts the child in the school term for a college of Treviso, where he spent his elementary and where it will start performing in school plays, begins in that time to learn to play the accordion.

Teenager returned to Bologna, Lucio Dalla is passionate about jazz: the mother for her thirteenth birthday, gave him a clarinet, the young Lucius learns to play quickly, began performing in amateur groups in the city and just putting in evidence. In this time he met Gianfranco Baldazzi, which later became his collaborator.

He began playing clarinet as a jazz band from Bologna, the Rheno Dixieland Band, which also Pupi Avati, future director.

In 1960 participates with Rheno the First European Jazz Festival, Antibes, France. The formation Bologna ranks first among the "traditional bands."

It is well noted by an orchestra of professional Roman and they did, in 1961, the first experience in the recording studio, playing the clarinet in the instrumental Telstar.

At the end of 1962 from Lucio enters instead of Flippers in which also the future music critic Fabrizio Paw, the future of the keyboard "Maurizio Costanzo Show" Franco Bracardi and future comedian Massimo Catalano, and with them (in addition to affecting various discs) collaborates with some 45 rpm recordings of the singer-songwriter Edoardo Vianello (such as "Here come the monsters" and the famous "I Watussi"), the Flippers also accompany the tour.

Just with Flippers Lucio Since signing the first contract of his life was the 1962 (just before I started working with Vianello), and signed a series of evenings.


During the 1963 Cantagiro Gino Paoli to know him, to listen to him and convince him groped his career as a soloist.

In 1964, when From 21 years old, he released his first solo record with 45 laps with you tonight and Ma (the latter is a cover of Hey little girl by Curtis Mayfield).

His debut at Cantagiro in 1964, where she has written by Paul, however, is disappointing, and is traveling to the evenings (especially) when moving the caravan is made to mark launch of vegetables and foodstuffs. Lucius, however, showed himself very hard, and not let himself break down. "

Back to Cantagiro however the following year with "Time to cry", written by Sergio Bardotti, which fails to achieve success.

Form his own band with musicians accompanying Bolognese, "The Idols", with whom he recorded his first album

In Sanremo, Lucio Dalla back in 1967, must know how to lose, performed in pairs with Rokes Shel Shapiro: 1967 is the year of the suicide of Luigi Tenco, who had worked with for one of the texts from the first disc, world of men, and with whom he'd befriended ("with Tenco had had relations of friendship and cooperation. We went to San Remo together, we took the next room, and his death shocked me ... I did not sleep for a month").

In 1969, Lucio Dalla has some success with the song "Cartoon", which is chosen as the theme song from Rai program cartoons Tivù boys "cardboard heroes".

At the Sanremo Festival in 1971, a holographic "folk song" March 4, 1943, text written by Paola Pallottino, which earned him third place overall.

A year later, Lucio Dalla still participates in Sanremo with "Piazza Grande", whose music works fine piece to Ron.

In 1975 he started working with De Gregori (with which the previous year was also taken from some concerts, along with Antonello Venditti, Maria Monti, which is taken the live album Bologna September 2, 1974 (live)): write together the music for "Pablo," which De Gregori impact in his album "Rimmel" and "Young explorer Tobias", recorded the following year in "Buffalo Bill".

Here occurs a new tear in the career of Lucio Dalla, decides to become a single point of contact of his music and from then on will be in all his albums and composer lyricist, but did not stop attending artists, poets and writers.

Public in 1977 How deep is the sea (Which Desperate erotic stomp and cheer): the disk is viewed by many fans as a betrayal and a sell to commercial needs, followed by a disc even more famous in 1979, Lucio Dalla (with Anna and Marco, The Last moon, the year that is), which reaches one million copies sold, in 1980 by from the encore.

Public Q disc in 1981 (with Call me in twenty years) and two years after 1983 misunderstood, which leads to change course from the music and gave up his stadium, now launched a career as a group, and began collaborating with Mauro Malavasi, accentuating the rhythm of the arrangements: the result is Tours, with the famous whole life, was also recorded in English by Olivia Newton-John and sung even years later by De Gregori live, and Washington, with the music written by Tullio Ferro, author of historical music for Vasco Rossi.

In 1986 he returned to work with the Stadium for the excellent and underrated album Lies. Memorable is the only new song of the album, Caruso, who will give back to Lucio Dalla an incredible success that struggled for years to come.

In 1988 comes a new, triumphant experience that DallaMorandi, disc (unpublished written by Mogol, Lavezzi, Battiato, Stadium and Ron) and very long tour (also abroad) in which the two myths of Italian music, accompanied (for ' last time) to share the stage playing the songs, telling their story and captivating the audience involved very numerous at every concert.
RAI 1 live broadcasts will conclude the summer tour to Taormina (directed by Gabriele Salvatores) that will have significant peaks of listening.
For at least 10 years Lucio Dalla's critics and public agree, as in that period only Franco Battiato is capable of doing with his records. Several songwriters of the next generation will be the explicit debt (Luca Carboni, Samuele Bersani, Biagio Antonacci, legendary collaboration with De Gregori; dalliani echoes are discernible even in the triad-Sugar-Ligabue Emilia Rossi).
Exceeded fifty years, Lucio Dalla almost completely abandons the histrionics. In the last decade, his albums are excellent collections of original songs including examples are Exchange in 1990 (with the success of the single Beware of the wolf written by Ron) and the melancholy of Henna 1993, full of small and intimate moments of pearls pure madness (as in the ironic Merdman).
Songs released in 1996 and once again the album is driven by a single large outlet or popular song, written by Samuele Bersani, a young pupil of Lucio Dalla.
In February 2007 back to the stage with Ron, in a show accompanied by a string orchestra, by the violinist Lino Cannavacciuolo, mime and dance by the company and directed Kataklò edited by Morgia; the same time began working with Mario Tutino superintendent and artistic director of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna for a project on "Pulcinella" by Igor Stravinsky in 1920.
In 2008 Lucio Dalla staging The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, played by singer and actress Angela Baraldi and Peppe Servillo, Avion Travel. The show debuted at the Teatro Duse in Bologna on March 31.
On 7 July 2008, the singer-songwriter from Bologna presents the official anthem of the Italian Olympic team, headed A single man can conquer the world and specially composed for the Beijing Games.
In December, Lucio Dalla says in Artemisia Sanchez Raiuno; for this miniseries writes and sings the opening theme.