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Gino Paoli
Everyone thinks he's from Genoa, and in a certain sense he is, Gino Paoli, the singer-songwriter who wrote some of the most beautiful pages of Italian music of the last century. But, in fact, the author of "Senza fine" and "Sapore di sale" was born on September 23, 1934 in Monfalcone. But it was in Genoa, where he moved as a child, that Gino Paoli - after having worked as a porter, an advertising graphic designer and a painter, raking in more prizes than money - made his debut as a dance hall singer, and then formed a musical band with his friends Luigi Tenco and Bruno Lauzi. Until the glorious Ricordi company, which had christened Bellini and Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, decided to extend its activity to light music and signed up this singer with the strange meowing voice. In 1960 he made "La gatta", a strictly autobiographical piece: it spoke of the attic by the sea where Gino lived. The album sold 119 copies, then disappeared, and then returned, unexpectedly becoming a hit selling 100,000 copies a week.
Gino Paoli | Projects
A LONG HISTORY
GINO PAOLI | voice DANILO REA | piano RITA MARCOTULLI | piano ARES TAVOLAZZI | double bass ALFREDO GOLINO | drums and with the PERUGIA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA in collaboration with UMBRIA JAZZ 60 years of music celebrated in a special concert event! “A long history” of music is celebrated in 2019 for Gino Paoli who reaches the milestone of 60 years of career, in which the life of the Genoese singer-songwriter is inexorably intertwined with the music and history of our country. To celebrate this special moment, in which you will listen to his successes and the latest unreleased songs contained in the new Album “ Appunti di un lungo Viaggio “A long history citing one of the unforgettable successes written by Paoli himself. On stage the Perugia Chamber Orchestra in collaboration with Umbria Jazz conducted by Maestro Marcello Sirignano, in addition to the inseparable traveling companion Danilo Rea, who will interpret with the unmistakable touch of his piano, the contemporary and unpublished Gino Paoli, presenting the songs of the new. The part of his timeless classics will instead be entrusted to three great musicians of Italian jazz such as Rita Marcotulli (piano), Alfredo Golino (drums) and Ares Tavolazzi (double bass) who already accompany him live also in the concerts of “Paoli canta Paoli”.
PAOLI SINGS PAOLI | Gino Paoli & Tri(o) Kàla
Gino Paoli | Voice Rita Marcotulli | Piano Ares Tavolazzi | Double bass Alfredo Golino | Drums Gino Paoli's songs have spanned many generations and still today deliver their precious words to the unstoppable activity of Time and memories, reaching adults, children and young people in a perpetual chain where the intertwining of poetry and immediate melodies is now even more necessary and unattainable than it was then. Singer-songwriter, pioneer and precursor of an artistic movement called the “Genoese school”, which together with Bindi, De Andrè, Lauzi, Endrigo and many other well-known figures, generated a hotbed of unique talents in the 60s, where music and audacity were at the service of a sensitive research that investigated the truths of time and the human soul, today, Gino Paoli energetically preserves that inquiring soul and above all that spirit of experimentation that has always accompanied him in his long career and pushed him towards originality, ultimately, naturally embracing an increasingly rich and renewed musical basin, such as Jazz. With this propensity his latest live project was born, in which he is joined by giants of Italian instrumental music, Rita Marcotulli on piano, Alfredo Golino on drums and Ares Tavolazzi on bass, already unified for some time under the name of Tri(o)Kàla and dedicated to the reinterpretation of author music. “Il cielo in una stanza”, “La Gatta”, “Una lunga storia D'amore” are just some of the titles from the well-known repertoire offered during their concert, all focused on the prolific production of Gino Paoli who, faithful to himself, dresses in an original way enveloping sounds like velvet and passionate rhythms but, as in an impressionist painting, is always at the service of our emotions.
TWO LIKE US WHO...
Gino Paoli | Voice Danilo Rea | Piano The live success of Gino Paoli and Danilo Rea continues, and their show “Due come noi che…”, a unique concert, based on voice, piano and improvisation. A precious example of how two absolute artists can interpret in an innovative way some classics of the history of Italian and international music, with an open setlist that ranges from Gino's most beloved songs, gems of Genoese singer-songwriters, the homage to Neapolitan and French music. The concert will also be an opportunity for spectators to have a live taste of the latest album by Paoli and Rea, always in search of new stimuli and musical experimentation: Gino and Danilo are in fact at the third chapter of their musical adventure as a duo - after the successful “Due come noi che” and “Napoli con amore”, the latest release is “3”, dedicated to the masterpieces of French music. Their live show has already collected numerous sold out concerts on the most prestigious stages in Italy and abroad, enchanting and exciting the audience every time. A success that certainly does not surprise given the caliber of the artists on stage: the voice and charisma of Paoli, one of the greatest authors and interpreters of the Italian song, supported by one of the most lyrical and creative pianists recognized internationally as Danilo Rea. Also for the next season the two will be busy with a rich calendar of concerts based on voice and piano, with a setlist that is renewed from show to show with Gino's most beloved songs, from "Averti addosso" to "Il cielo in una stanza", from "Vivere ancora" to "Perduti" passing through "La gatta" and "Come si fa", together with gems by Genoese singer-songwriters, who for Gino are lifelong friends: "Canzone dell'amore perduto" and "Bocca di rosa" by De André, "Il nostro concerto" by Umberto Bindi, "Vedrai Vedrai" by Tenco and "Se tu sapessi" by Bruno Lauzi.
