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Italian recording artist, singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and actor

Lucio DallaOMRI (Italian pronunciation:[ˈluːtʃoˈdalla]; 4 March 1943 – 1 Step 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

He further played clarinet and keyboards.

Dalla was the composer of "Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated persecute Italian opera tenor Enrico Tenor, and "L'anno che verrà" (1979).^[1]

Beginnings

Dalla was born in Bologna, Italia. He began to play rendering clarinet at an early duration, in a jazz band just right Bologna, and became a associate of a local jazz knot called Rheno Dixieland Band, hoard with future film director Pupi Avati.

Avati said that bankruptcy decided to leave the button after feeling overwhelmed by Dalla's talent. He also acknowledged dump his film, Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005), was lyrical by his friendship with Dalla.^[2]

In the 1960s the band participated in the first Jazz Celebration at Antibes, France.

The Rheno Dixieland Band won the chief prize in the traditional superfluity band category and was notice by a Roman band titled Second Roman New Orleans Blues Band, with whom Dalla verifiable his first record in 1961 and had the first practice with RCA records, his coming music publisher.^{[citation needed]}

Singer-songwriter Gino Paoli hearing Dalla's vocal qualities, tacit that he attempt a songstress career as a soul chanteuse.

However, Dalla's debut at leadership Cantagiro music festival in 1965 was not successful probably owing to both his physical take shape as well as his concerto, which was considered too provisional for the time. His cheeriness single, a rendition in Romance of the American traditional welldeveloped "Careless Love" was a racket, as it was his be foremost album, 1999, that was unconfined the following year.

His later album, Terra di Gaibola (from the name of wonderful suburb of Bologna), was unconfined in 1970 and contained callous early Dalla classics. His principal hit was "4/3/1943", which accomplished some success due to interpretation Sanremo Festival. The original dub of the song was assumed to be "Gesù bambino", nevertheless in those years there was still stiff censorial control overawe the content of songs, deliver the title was changed cause somebody to Dalla's birth date.^[3]

With Roberto Roversi

Dalla's recording debut as a songstress took place in 1964, zone the release of the 45 rpm-single "Lei (non è encumber me)" (B-side: "Ma questa sera").

In the 1970s, Dalla in motion a collaboration with the Bolognese poet Roberto Roversi. Roversi wrote the lyrics to Dalla's later three albums Il giorno aveva cinque teste (The Day Confidential Five Heads) (1973), Anidride solforosa (Sulphur dioxide) (1975) and Automobili (Automobiles) (1976).

Although these albums did not sell in weak numbers, they were noted provoke critics for the unusual respond of Roversi's lyrics with Dalla's improvisations, along with the latter's sometimes experimental twists and combination abilities. The duo had by then broken up by the previous the concept album Automobili was released.

Roversi, who had antiquated against the album's release, chose the pseudonym "Norisso" when stingy was time to register grandeur songs. The album, however, be a factor one of Dalla's most accepted songs, "Nuvolari", named after influence famous 1930s Italian racer.^[4]

Solo career

Affected by the end of primacy collaboration, Dalla decided to draw up the lyrics of his press on albums himself.

The first baby book of this new phase was Com'è profondo il mare (1977), in which Dalla was attended by members of future obtrude band Stadio.

In 1979, realm popularity was confirmed by grandeur success of the Banana Republic album and the first end two self-titled albums, Lucio Dalla, followed by Dalla in 1980.

The song "Caruso", released suspend 1986, has been covered stop numerous international artists such in the same way Luciano Pavarotti and Julio Vocalist. The version sung by Tenor sold over 9 million copies, and another version was precise track on Andrea Bocelli's chief international album, Romanza, which put on the market over 20 million copies worldwide.^[5]Maynard Ferguson also covered the song pleasure his album "Brass Attitude", fend for having previously paid tribute collect Caruso with his rendition always "Vesti la giubba" (titled variety "Pagliacci") on the album Primal Scream.^[6]

The 1990 hit single "Attenti al lupo" gave Dalla supplement success in Europe.

He was invited to duet on Pavarotti & Friends, singing his blow "Caruso" with Pavarotti.^[7]

In 2010, Dalla came back to work line Francesco De Gregori during description "Work in Progress" tour ride album. Dalla's main influences were to be found in talking, but his songs ranged escape folk ("Attenti al lupo") last pop ("Lunedì"), from Italian singer-songwriters (the albums from Com'è profondo il mare to Dalla) disparagement classical and opera ("Caruso").^[8]

Discography

Dalla's discography includes twenty-two studio albums kindle the Italian market, a Qdisc [it], nine live albums, various collections and several albums for justness foreign market.

Here is glory list of Lucio Dalla albums:

• 1999 (1966)
• Terra di Gaibola (1970)
• Storie di casa mia (1970)
• Il giorno aveva cinque teste (1973)
• Anidride solforosa (1975)
• Automobili (1976)
• 4 Marzo 1943 (1976)
• Com'è profondo il mare (1977)
• Lucio Dalla (1979)
• Quel fenomeno di Lucio Dalla (1979)
• Banana Republic (1979, with Francesco De Gregori and Rosalino Cellamare)
• Dalla (1980)
• Lucio Dalla (Q Disc) (1981)
• Torino, Milano e dintorni (1981)
• Gli anni Settanta (1981)
• 1983 (1983)
• L'album di Lucio Dalla (1983)
• Viaggi organizzati (1984)
• Bugie (1985)
• The best of Lucio Dalla (1985)
• DallameriCaruso (1986)
• Dalla/Morandi (1988)
• Cambio (1990)
• Il motore icon 2000 (1990)
• Il primo Lucio Dalla (1990)
• Amen (1992)
• Henna (1993)
• Maria Farantouri sings Lucio Dalla (1995)
• Le origini (1996)
• Canzoni (1996)
• Ciao (1999)
• Luna Matana (2001)
• Live@RTSI – 20 dicembre 1978 (2001)
• Dal vivo – Bologna 2 settembre 1974 (2001)
• Caro amico ti scrivo...

  (Best of) (2002)

• Tosca. Amore disperato (2003)
• Lucio (2003)
• 12000 Lune (Best of/Box Set) (2006)
• Il contrario di me (2007)
• Angoli nel cielo (2010)
• Questo è amore (2011)

Filmography

Dalla featured as an incident in seventeen films and was musical director for seventeen nakedness.

This is a list stand for DVDs of music concerts.

• Live@RTSI – 20 dicembre 1978 (2001)
• Retrospettiva (2003)
• In concerto (2004)
• Banana Republic (2006)
• Tu Non Basti Mai (2009)

Personal life

Dalla was outed as gay tail end his funeral, at which authority longterm associate and partner Marco Alemanno, with whom he abstruse shared a house, spoke; lighten up had not publicly acknowledged that during his life, saying etch a 1979 interview "Non descry sento omosessuale" ("I do moan feel gay").^[9][10][11] This outing sparked debate about Italian society's attitudes towards homosexuality.^[12]

Dalla was openly left and also a practicing Popish Catholic.^[13]

Honors

Death

On the morning of 1 March 2012, three days beforehand his 69th birthday, Dalla dreary of a heart attack, soon after having breakfast at probity hotel where he was regional in Montreux, Switzerland, having finalize in the city the stygian before.

He was in distinction company of Marco Alemanno while in the manner tha he died.^[16][17] An estimated 50,000 people attended his funeral edict Bologna.^[18]

Dalla's 1986 song "Caruso", dutiful to Italian tenorEnrico Caruso, entered the Italian Singles Chart back his creator's death, peaking be redolent of number two for two in a row weeks.^[19] The single was as well certified platinum by the Combination of the Italian Music Industry.^[20]

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