Luca Carboni

Luca Carboni is a singer and Italian composer-songwriter born the October 12th 1962 with Bologna.

Biography

Beginnings

It is initiated with the very young music, starting to learn the Piano at the 6 years age. In 1976, it forms with friends the group Teobaldi Rock , in which it officiates as a Guitariste. It is for this group that he writes his first songs. The style is very influenced by it by the kinds then in vogue, the Punk, then the new wave. Starting from 1980, the group starts to occur regularly in local concerts. In 1981, Teobaldi Rock leaves its first 45 turns, which will only remain, the shortly after separating group.

Carboni does not give up therefore its will to bore in the musical field. It goes thus regularly to the Osteria da Vito , which is at the time one of the principal places of the music scene bolonaise. Thus it meets there the musicians of the group Stadio (which will be especially made know thereafter by accompanying Lucio Dalla regularly), which proposes to him to write a title for their first album. Thus Carboni composes the title Navigando Controvento , recorded by Stadio for its first album left in 1982.

The first two albums

Thanks to these contacts, Luca Carboni at the time of recording in 1983 its first album entitled … E intanto Dustin Hoffman not sbaglia a film , marketed the following year at RCA. The album profits from warm welcome criticizes and a honourable business success with 30000 sold specimens to which are added 50000 of the individual one Ci stiamo sbagliando .

In 1985, Carboni signs its second album, Forever , whose sales are slightly higher than those of the precedent (70000). It launches out then in its first great round to Italy. In parallel, it starts to paint and draw regularly.

The first public successes

In 1987 leaves the following album sobrement entitled Luca Carboni , to which he worked during two years. It obtains a success without common measurement with that which it had known before: nearly 700000 sold specimens. Carboni becomes thus famous in all Italy. It finds with this album the style which will remain to him attached, a melody rock'n'roll, often tinted melancholy. In spite of some texts mentioning the youth problems (like Silvia lo sai on the thême of drug), its subject of predilection remains the stories of love, which is not without him to attract critics reproaching him a lack of political commitment.

Albums of maturity

The new album Nobody Silenziose (1989) wants to be intimist particularly, in homage to the “quiet people”, the humble ones about which one never speaks in the media. The topic is to be brought closer to the personality of the singer, who is characterized by a certain refusal of the celebrity. In the same order of idea, it ensures a minimal promotion for the disc, which does not prevent it from running out with more than 500000 specimens.

Nearly two years later, Carboni leaves what remains its greater success to date, the album Carboni (1992). Several individual which is extracted from it becomes hits: Ci vuole a fisico bestial , ironic chronicle of the consumer society, the melancholic person Pond pond , genuine tube of summer, the mia città , and the love song the storie of amore .

The album is followed by a great round, “Ci vuole a fisico bestial-Turn”, which ends in eight common dates with the rappor Jovanotti. The round gives place to the recording of the album live Dario Carboni , which is the first with being truly marketed in other countries that Italy; following this album, Luca Carboni gives concerts in 10 European countries.

New experiments

Rather than to repeat the gaining formula of the preceding albums, Carboni prefers to turn for its new productions to a more experimental style and minimialist. Thus the sound of the album MONDO world welt world (1995) appears overall harder, less produced than its preceding productions. It is particularly obvious with individual the Inno Nazionale , devoted to a critic of racism and individualism. The aspect “badly product” is worth some criticisms negative with this new album, although it is obviously about a deliberate choice of the artist.

The year 1996 is marked by a new Italian round, like by the release of a Spanish version of the new album, Mundo , carried out in collaboration with Miguel Bosé.

The paroxysm of the minimalism sought by Carboni is reached with the album Carovana (1998), which it entirely only carries out by computer. Individual the rather alive the ragazze has the appearance of an exception in the middle of particularly slow songs to the murmured song. This experimental album is followed by a round which is not it less for one artist rock'n'roll, with the presence on scene of a Chamber orchestra ( OFI Chamber Orchestrated ).

A more traditional round in the Italian stages takes place the following year. A compilation of its greater successes It tempo dell' amore is also published in 1999, with two news the mia ragazza and It tempo dell' amore . A European round follows in 2000.

Since 2001

In 2001 leaves the album LU*CA , which marks a return to the style melancholic person characteristic of Carboni. All the songs except two are of his/her Samuele son. The album obtains an important success again, just as individual the Mi friend davvero , will nostra It storia , the word sowie Stellina (dei cantautori) .

In 2002 leaves a DVD gathering 10 video clips resulting from the preceding albums. In 2003 is published the second album-live of the career of Carboni, Live , which comprises recordings in various concerts between 1992 and 2002, as well as the new Settembre . It carries out in 2004 a new round.

In 2006, Carboni takes part in the album … the band if sciolgono , at the sides of other artists like Pino Daniele or Tiziano Ferro.

Discography

… E intanto Dustin Hoffman not sbaglia a film (1984)
Forever (1985)
Luca Carboni (1987)
Nobody silenziose (1989)
Carboni (1992)
Diario Carboni (1993)
MONDO world welt world (1995)

Mundo (1996)

Carovana (1998)
It tempo dell' amore (1999)
LU*CA (2001)
Live (2003)
… the band if sciolgono (2006)

External bonds

Luca Carboni - Official site
detailed Biography
Luca Carboni Fanlisting

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