Bruno Lauzi
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Bruno Lauzi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈbruːno ˈlauttsi]; 8 August 1937 – 24 October 2006) was an Italian singer-songwriter, poet and writer.
Biography
[edit]Bruno Lauzi was born in Asmara,[1] then part of the Italian East Africa, to a Catholic father, Francesco Lauzi and a Jewish mother, Laura Nahum. In the 1960s he moved to Genoa, where he became part of the local music scene and met Gino Paoli, Luigi Tenco and Fabrizio De André.[2] After a spell as song writer for Mia Martini, Georges Moustaki and Ornella Vanoni, Lauzi established himself as a renowned cantautore (singer-songwriter).
His biggest hits include "Ritornerai" (1963),[3] "Amore caro amore bello" (1972), "Onda su onda" (1974), "Genova per noi" (1975).[4][5]
In the 1980s, he started a political career with the Italian Liberal Party, but without huge success.
Suffering from Parkinson disease, he died in Peschiera Borromeo at age 69 from liver cancer.[6]
He was a football supporter of U.C. Sampdoria.
Discography
[edit]- Lauzi al cabaret (1965)
- Ti ruberò (1965)
- Cara (1968)
- Bruno Lauzi (1970)
- Amore caro amore bello (1971)
- Il teatro di Bruno Lauzi (1972)
- Simon (1973)
- Lauzi oggi (1974)
- L'amore sempre (1975)
- Quella gente là (1975)
- Genova per noi (1975)
- Johnny Bassotto, la tartaruga...ed altre storie (1976)
- Persone (1977)
- Alla grande (1978)
- Amici miei (1981, Q-disc)
- Palla al centro (1982)
- Piccolo grande uomo (1985)
- Back to Jazz (1985)
- Ora! (1987)
- La musica del mondo (1988)
- Inventario latino (1989)
- Il dorso della balena (1992)
- Johnny Bassotto e i suoi amici (1996)
- Omaggio alla città di Genova (2001)
- Il manuale del piccolo esploratore (2003)
- Nostaljazz (2003)
- Ciocco Latino (2006)
Literary works
[edit]Poems
[edit]- I mari interni ("Internal Seas", 1994)
- Riapprodi ("Re-Docks", 1994)
- Versi facili ("Easy Verses", 1999)
- Esercizi di sguardo ("Exercises of Glance", 2002)
- Agli immobili cieli ("To the Still Skies", 2010)
Prose work
[edit]- Della quieta follia dei piemontesi ("On the Quiet Foolery of the Piedmonteses", 1997)
- Il caso del pompelmo levigato ("The Case of Polished Grapefruit", 2005)
- Tanto domani mi sveglio. Autobiografia in controcanto ("So Tomorrow I Wake Up. Autobiography in Counterpoint", 2006)
References
[edit]- ^ "Bruno Lauzi". Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). Rome: Treccani. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ Official site
- ^ Ritornerai-Bruno Lauzi Archived April 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Vídeo of Bruno Lauzi singing in the 1960s on YouTube
- ^ Video of Bruno Lauzi's "recital" on YouTube
- ^ "Biografia". www.brunolauzi.it. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
- 1937 births
- 2006 deaths
- People from Asmara
- Eritrean people of Italian descent
- Eritrean emigrants to Italy
- Italian male singer-songwriters
- Italian singer-songwriters
- Italian poets
- Italian male poets
- Musicians from Genoa
- Deaths from liver cancer in Italy
- Deaths from cancer in Lombardy
- Italian Liberal Party politicians
- People with Parkinson's disease
- 20th-century Italian Jews
- Jewish poets
- 20th-century Italian male singers
- Writers from Genoa