Camaleonti

Biography

"One of groups POP more asserts to you in the second half of years ' 60 in Italy, has been the group of the ""Camaleonti"": five coming from boys all of various estrzione and from several regions, but to Milan joined from one great passion for music. The beginnings have been according to script: tantissimo job in open-air dance-halls, night-club, dance hall, as it was used in those years when the figure of the disk-jockey had not been still invented. Their repertorio comprised, then, shake, twist, rock ' n roll for young, but also mazurke, tanghi, melodiche songs for public the most mature one. Just for this eclettismo and this ability to pass from a musical kind to an other, the five boys decided to call ""Camaleonti"". Been born in 1962, the group, to the beginnings strongly was influenced from the beat English, a lot that first happening the record one has been ritmatissimo ""shake"" a Sha-la-la that sold 400,000 copies, endured followed from one melodica, but equally fortunate song, PORTAMI MANY ROSES. In the 1966 they carried to their first Cantagiro the song YOU ASK YOU ASK.
In the 1967 there was the colossal affirmation with the HOUR Of the LOVE, that it exceeds 1,590,000 sold copies, remaining in still classifies for many settimane.Poi I FOR SHE, happening of the Cantagiro of 1968 and an other clamorous affirmation with evocative the APPLAUSES, that it exceeds the million copies. In the following years, the happy vein of the Camaleonti continues confirming the value of the group and its popolarità through other lucky people 45 turns like ACE Of ANGEL and MOTHER MINE (written from Mogol and Battisti) both of 1969. In the 1970 they participate to their first Festival di Sanremo, in brace with 0rnella Vanoni, song ETERNITA' placing itself to the quarter place. In the same year they participate to Canzonissima with FRIENDSHIP and LOVE, arriving to the 6 final of January and publish a Album with the same title it. In the 1971 they still record the beautifulst brano TODAY the E' SKY ROSE and a song of Mario Lavezzi, I LOVE to YOU FROM an HOUR, which it had supported in the group since the first years. In the 1972 they publish one the longest song for those years: wonderful SHE ME DARA' a CHILD, still today richiestissima in the concerts, which, perhaps for the topic dealt in the text, were boycotted from RAI. In that same year they recorded TIME Of WINTER, where in the text the problem of the brace is faced. In the 1973 they participate to their according to Sanremo with the song LIKE SIX BEAUTIFUL one, and to the Disc for the Summer of the same year they were classified to the first place with PERCHE' I LOVE to YOU.
In 1973, they record the song the FIELD Of the STRAWBERRIES, and in the 1974 anchor to the Disc for the Summer with SMALL VENERE. In the 1976 they return to the Festival di Sanremo with GLASS HEART, and realize an interesting album: THAT AERIAL WONDERFUL, the HOPE and towards the end of that year fuses an own record label with to Mariano Saying, that it had cured the agreements of their greater successes. In 1978, with their label, they publish first single BETWEEN FRIENDS and album CAMALEONTI IN SALE. Towards the end of 1978, the Camaleonti enters in the cast musical of the Durium, and the first publication, SONG Of FOREIGN LOVE, provokes encouraging reactions a lot, a lot that to the Festival di Sanremo of the 1979 introduce a brano of M. Lavezzi, THAT MOMENT IN PIU ', that conquest of the third party is worth they it mails. In the same year they publish an other album: And WE WALK, from which it comes drawn single with the same title it. Later on they change label and in the 1982 they contribute to the realization of the sonorous column of the film the TANGO Of the JEALOUSY with Monica Vitti and participate to the Disc for the Summer with single ITALIAN BOYS the Camaleonti cross to this point a period of reflection and search. The popular from Milan formation, from the beginnings, has changed various elements, but Livio, Tonino and Paul are remained the ""columns"" of the same group. Fruit of an interesting collaboration with Dario Baldan Bembo is born in 1984 HEART NEROAZZURRO, the new official hymn of the Inter, than to here of the contents exclusively the sportswomen, its artistic validity is prevailed also for one, happy example of as the sport with music can be arranged, obtaining turns out you of a sure level. In the meantime, the group, that it participates to numerous television transmissions, means to maintain to balance just the tie with first ""fans"" and is introduced from the new ones.
In the 1986 the Camaleonti records SINGLE WE, a brano of atmosphere much evocative one that draft the love with a rarefied language, magically suspended between truth and dream. To this point in order to complete their discografia, two collections of successes, obliged stage for a group join that on the wave of the revival is living a second giovinezza. Between years 1988 and 1991, the Camaleonti participates to the programs of Channel 5: Vent' annì after, a round one on the sea and gains edition 1990 was once the Festival, still with song PERCHE' LOVES to YOU. In the 1993 they participate of new to the Festival di Sanremo with to the Dik-Dik and Maurizio Vandelli (former Equipe 84) introducing the beautifulst song AS the TIME PASSES, than, also not arriving to the end, has had a remarkable reply with the public. In the spring of the 1997 they have participated, like cast fixed, to the transmission of Channel 5, lead from Paul Bonolis, the CAT and the VIXEN. Other surprise, for single hour in embryo, will concur with the public to ulteriorly appreciate the talent and the eclettismo of the Camaleonti, than during their long career they have sold something as 20,000,000 of discs and have been rewards you, between the other, with four dischì of gold, two Masks of silver, a Ambrogino of gold (directly from the mayor of Milan) and a Diapason of gold.
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