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Gigi D`alessio
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Gigi D' Alessio , last of three sons, is born 24 February 1967 to Naples. To single four Gigi years it receives in gift from the father, of return from the Venezuela, one fisarmonica, has beginning therefore its love for music. Replacing it to its games, the passion more and more grows and to twelve mature Gigi years the idea to enroll to the Conservatory of S. Peter to Majella of Naples, where it will obtain nine years after the diploma of pianoforte. The partenopeo musical world appreciates endured its dowries from arranger, arriving also to direct the Orchestra Scarlet of Naples. To 23 years it begins its collaboration with Mario Merola, with which it realizes an entitled brano "Cient' anne" , interpreted from both and that Gigi nozzle in effective garment between the detections of Neapolitan music. The brano will come then inserted in its first album, "Leaves me to sing" , than laughed them to 1992. Its new record production exits little after one, "Slipping towards the high" , that it realizes 30mila copies very, not little for an artist known to the single age in the partenopea musical truth. It will be soon the Memories to contact this young talent, that it will publish therefore its third party job in 1994, "Where me door the heart" , than consta of the collaboration of great musicians: It wins Moderates, Lele Melotti and Mark Zurzolo. The happened one approaches and Gigi D' public Alessio, in 1995, for the Fonit Cetra which will be the first great step towards the notoriety, entitled exactly "Step after step" . To the inside of the album also "Annarè" , brano with which Gigi has legacy to numerous himself fans, that they will participate numerous, approximately in 8000, to the concert to the Palapartenope of Naples for its first great apparition live. In 1997 it exits "Outside from the fray" , the album that will concur to add it to its already shining curriculum also an unforgettable appointment with 20 mila fans, than will keep to the S.Paolo Stage of Naples the 7 june of the same year. The sixth album for the Zeus arrives soon Record, entitled "E' be a pleasure" , other happening, other great consent of public. Gigi attempts then like interpreter in the entitled film "Annaré" , of which it will cure also the sonorous column. In this new adventure it will place side by side actors of great prestige, like Fabio Witnesses, Amedeo Goria and Orso Guerrini Maria. To Naples the happened one of "Annaré" exceeds of beyond the double quantity the proceeds of "Titanic" , a new dowel in the already fortunate mosaic of the production of Of Alessio. The 15 mila present to the Tempio of the Rock to Naples, cioé to It runs aground them of Bagnoli, make from realized first foundation to cd the live ones from Gigi for the Bmg. In the November of the ' 98 it exits "All in a concert" , a collection that travels over again in music all the salienti moments of the promising career of this scugnizzo, that it has known to conquer Italy with its semplicità. All the stages more important will be inserted in this production realized from Bmg-Ricordi, that it contains more notes songs like "Fotomodelle a po' poor" , "Anna if spouse" and "Portami with you" . The cinematographic experience does not end with the first film, but endured one new film, entitled "Cient' anne", will have Gigi D' Alessio in the cast, this time with the participation of Mario Merola, between the actors also George Mastrota. Music remains but the protagonist in the life of the partenopeo artist and soon exits in all Europe the new album from the title it "Portami with you" (Bmg-Ricordi). Also the television demands it and participates therefore to the program of Net 4, "Alive Naples", where it will win with the brano "Or Sarracino" . The 19 june ' 99 anchor live to the S.Paolo Stage of Naples, still one crowd of fans, approximately 35mila, to insert the evening in the great book of the unforgettable episodes of the artistic life of Of Alessio. Most numerous the events that will all over the world have it like protagonist: from New York to Tirana, from Naples to Saint Remo, Gigi D' Alessio it will be exhibited between the applauses of the present ones. It will be just 50° the Festival of the Italian song to dargli greater visibility, and with "dirgli never" Gigi D' Alessio it does not land directly between the Big, and it could not otherwise be for an artist who in little more than five years has caught up the full happened one, determining therefore the passage of "status" from regional-popular phenomenon to one stable national truth. The song that Of Alessio introduces to Sanremo will make part of its fifth entitled album "When my life changes" , exited 24 February 2000, that it includes eleven unknown brani, of which only three in Neapolitan. More than one choice, draft of a natural evolution, an approach to more and more modern composition and POP, than does not hide some intention from part of Gigi to interrupt or to disown the tie with the own earth born them, in fact the "napoletanità" of the artist is a fact that prescinds from the use of the dialetto. Moreover, when Naples enters in way declared in the expressive sphere of this author and musician, ago with its ethnic equipment with, as an example, the southern suggestions of a beautifulst "Sun, sky and sea" , that it sees the presence of two voices between noblest of the Italian theatre, Peppe Bar and Sastri Linen. "When my life will change" it is a written album of jet: all the songs have been composed, the witnesses and musics arranged and recorded in hardly thirty days. The song "dirgli never" , with which Of Alessio it has trod the sanremesi scenes, does not trace a beautiful sequence of agreements found playing between the keys black white men and whom they make to emerge the painful memories of the end of a love. This is still the fruit of the job of a tested team that it sees arrangers of the bore of Adrian Pen-nib (Giorgia, Gino Pauls, Pine Daniel), Linen Cannavacciuolo (violinista and etnomusicologo) and of musicians which Lele Melotti, Augustin Marangolo, Vittorio River, Paul Coast, Roberto Of Aquino, George Cocilovo, Maurizio Fiordaliso and Paul of the Old one. Still Sanremo in 2001, to 51ª the edition of the Festival D' Alessio participates with "You that of it you know" , brano that, classified in eighth position, it will come then published in the new entitled album "the way of the age" .
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