July 2009

ROBERTA GAMBARINI

ROBERTA GAMBARINI is a jazz singer, famouse and appreciate in Usa, but she was unknows, for years, in Italy.
Why Roberta, as many others italian musicians doens't has success in Italy but in America , or in Europe are Music Stars? There are many reasons, but a cultural and historical reason is the same for the big part of that musicians.
Jazz music never had a big success in Italy, and there is an easy reason: for 20 years - from 1922 to 1943 - under fascist regime, all music from other countries considerated as illegal.
The autarky was one of first italian fascist values - for may economic reasons, as the lack in Italy of raw materials and energy sources (oil ); one of the dreams of Italian Fascist regime was to make of Italy a big and important Country, economical indipendent from United Kingdom or others big countries of the time, and to become Italy a 'power', as the Roman Empire - that becomes the landmark of the Fascist Regime...
For that reason Mussolini made un-useful wars - before the WW-II - as vs/ Albania or vs/ Somalia and Eritrea: to build an Italian Kingdom, but the history tell us what happened.
The Italian traditional music was for more than 20 years the only music transmetted by radio and that is very important to understand what italian pubblic loves; after 60 years the 'autarky' is a way of life still follows by many people, and on Dna of many italian citizens.
Roberta Gambarini, to work as singer and to have succes, went in Usa to sing in jazz bars, but I hope a great voice as Roberta, a day, return in Italy as music star.
Roberta Gambarini is very appreciated by jazz musicians, and a big american journal compares the voice of Roberta than great jazz singers as Frizgerald and others big ones...
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ALESSANDRA AMOROSO

AMOROSO ALESSANDRA is the winner of "Amici edition 2009"(Friends) one Italian reality Tv-show.

The 22 year olds from Galatina (Puglia region) entered the school of "Amici" ('Friends', the same reality Tv-Show winned by Marco Carta the last year).
Since the first episode and it was distinct from the start for her powerful voice, so that the critics pointed out as the likely winner of the program. Almost obvious victory for her and now opens the door for a new career in the music scene. On April 10 released its debut album that will contain among other things this new song "Stupid" presented in its final evening of Friends.
I'm very happy to find all songs sung by Alessandra Amoroso; the songs of album "Stupida" and all songs sung in the Tv-show "Amici" for 24 music videos, with many of most goods Italian traditional pop songs and love songs...
i think Alessandra Amoroso will become a very big new Italian singer and her voice will be famouse also in all the world, to start from South America, where, I know, Italian music is very appreciate and follows by eceryone.
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QUARTETTO CETRA - Vocal group

Il Quartetto Cetra ( The Cetra Quartet) - Tata Giacometti; Felice Chiusano; Virgilio Savona; Enrico De Angelis - has been the most important Vocal Group in Italy.
They starts to play in 1941, and, since the end of the 40's and over 50's years the Quartetto Cetra reaps success after another, full of swing, interpreting with irony and style that characterizes many songs revenue now part of the history of Italian pop music , such as "nella vecchia fattoria "(In the old farm) as "Un bacio a mezzanotte"(A kiss at midnight); "Vecchia america"(Old America); "Concertino", "Come un disco dei platters" (A disc of Platters ); "Sei come un flipper"( You are like a flipper); " Sole, pizza e amore "and many others.
And 'their music, and rhythm and carefree, who told vices and virtues of an constantly changing, from reconstruction to economic boom, the phenomenon of Hippies and the 'contestation' ( cultural revolution of '68).
But their career, of course, stopped by these events - and by history - and in the middle of '80's They were been 'old glories' of Italian music.
I want to say only one thing to that vocal group: thank for all You made for Italian Music continue...

LIST OF ITALIAN SINGERS AND GROUPS

I pubblish here the list of all my work about Italian Music: Italian Singers - Groups and Music Authors, with music videos I reviewed and I'll review in that Blog.
In this list of Italian singers and music groups, we're also adding major Italian authors and composers, first of all classical music and opera, as the Italian music, not only Neapolitan music, music of the Sanremo Festival, rock music, jazz music , hip-hop, dance music, folk music etc.., but the Italian song, bases its tradition in music, especially classical, baroque and opera.
We hope You appreciate our work, thank You.

That list is in alphabet order:

1) last name - or 'aka'

2) name of the singer...
Now (July 10- 2009) I wrote 124 reviews ( articles ) of Italian Singers, Groups and music Authors from last 200 years, and I'll continue to expand the list, also to write some important news and events about Italian Music World. I hope all my efforts will give happy to more people as possible.
Now, dec 2011 there are more than 200 articles...

CANZONI ITALIANE - ITALIAN SONGS

ROBERTA GAMBARINI

ALESSANDRA AMOROSO

AMOROSO ALESSANDRA is the winner of "Amici edition 2009"(Friends) one Italian reality Tv-show.

QUARTETTO CETRA - Vocal group

LIST OF ITALIAN SINGERS AND GROUPS