Fabrizio De André

Fabrizio De André is an Italian song writer and performer, born with Genoa on February 18th, 1940 and died in Milan on January 11th, 1999.

During its career, of 1958 to 1997, Fabrizio De André (called Faber by his/her friends) recorded a score of discs; it became one of the preferred singers of Italy. The quality of its songs and their interpretation were worth to him the recognition and the very strong attachment of all Italian (and of some in love with the Italian culture) who one appreciated as interprets and like poet.

It is in the middle of the Sixties that Fabrizio De André is made known with the canzone di Marinella . Being accompanied by its guitar, it is inspired many Georges Brassens (which it besides translated or adapted, just as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, as in the song Bocca di rosa .

Fabrizio De André sings the love above all and it takes the defense of excluded, oppressed, the marginal ones. A thought of Anarchiste matrix will follow it during all its career; in its songs, he denounces the war with Andrea and will guerra It di Piero , or massacres it Indians of America ( Fiume Sand Creek ), or sings a prostitute ( Via del Campo ), or a small drainage canal on the cross which rejects the Ten Commands ( It testamento di Tito ). Finally in fragile Amico it is delivered in a long poetic and enigmatic text.

Between 1968 and 1973, it records several major albums:

Tutti morimmo has stento takes as a starting point the poetry of François Villon and Riccardo Mannerini
the buona novella takes as a starting point the Gospels apocryphal books
Non Al denaro, not ale amore born Al cielo takes as a starting point the American poet Edgar Lee Masters
Storia di a impiegato is a concept committed album , which takes as a starting point May 68 and of the Contestation coed
Of Andre and live PFM with famous a band prog rock'n'roll Italian
Anime Salvo , the last

In the Seventies, Fabrizio De André recorded an album ( the buona novella ) with a famous group of progressive Rock Italian, I Quelli, which, become a few years later Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM), accompanies it in a round memorable (and recorded) in 1979 and 1980.

Starting from the album Rimini (1978), Fabrizio De André collaborates fruitfully with Massimo Bubola.

If Fabrizio De André contributed to make known many foreign authors in Italy, and if he did not hesitate, like Léo Ferré, to sing accompanied by a formation rock'n'roll, its music integrates also the musical traditions of the various Italian areas. One of its most interesting works is the album Creuza of mä 1984, carried out with Mauro Pagani, sung in dialect Ligure, homage to the culture of its birthplace and its people.

Fabrizio De André records his last album Anime salvo in 1996 with the collaboration of Ivano Fossati. It is made Chevalier of the Republic (equivalent of our Legion of honor) in 1998 by the president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. ----

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