Rino Gaetano

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Salvatore Antonio "Rino" Gaetano (29 October 1950 – 2 June 1981) was an Italian musician and singer-songwriter. He is famous for his satirical songs and oblique yet incisive political commentary. He is remembered for his raspy voice, for the heavily ironic lyrics of his songs and his social protests. He died in a car accident at age 30. He was a popular and influential figure, widely re-evaluated by the following teen generations.

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Biography Salvatore Antonio Gaetano was born in Crotone, Calabria. At the time of his birth, his family had just returned to Calabria after spending a period of displacement—common to many of their fellow citizens—in Dolo due to the ravages of World War II, where his older sister Anna was born. In the family, he was often called “Salvatorino,” but Anna preferred to call him by an even shorter nickname, “Rino,” which over time became the only name she used for him in everyday life. In March 1960, at the age of ten, his family moved to Rome, where he would spend the rest of his life. In 1961, he was sent to study at the seminary Piccola Opera del Sacro Cuore of Narni, in the province of Terni, where, under the guidance of his teacher Renato Simeoni, he began to show his flair for writing poetry. Far from his family, Rino composed the short poem E l'uomo volò ("The Man Flew"). His teacher remembers him thus: [Gaetano] understood the importance of studying, but he also had moments of great absence, which was not emptiness. It was very difficult to find Rino in situations of “emptiness”; he was always mentally occupied.…Citește mai mult

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Bassignano also recalls: He adopted an atypical, clownish style, but he did not perform cabaret. He continually desecrated pop music and, for all these reasons, he was unthinkable for the Folkstudio audience. During that same period, Gaetano often performed alongside Venditti in cabaret shows organised by Marcello Casco. Gaetano was a multi-talented performer and, during the early 1970s, he performed in cabarets and took part in several plays in addition to gigging. He played the role of Estragon in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, the Fox in a production of Pinocchio by Italian director Carmelo Bene, and recited poetry by Majakovsky. Gaetano was an accomplished actor, developing much of his subsequent stage style and writing technique through his theatre experience. He was inspired by German kabarett, a form of theatre excelling in political satire. Wikipedia describes this as "unlike comedians who make fun of all kind of things, Kabarett artists (German: Kabarettisten) pride themselves as dedicated almost completely to political and social topics of more serious nature which they criticize using techniques like cynicism, sarcasm and irony." They were able to deal with social themes and political developments through their acts, something that inspired Gaetano and can be seen in…Citește mai mult

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Micocci said: "He considered himself a writer, not a singer. He believed he didn't have a good voice, so that after the release of I Love You Marianna, when the time came to record his first album, he came and told me that it would be better to get someone else to sing the songs. I, of course, I laughed and sent him in the studio." In 1974 Rino met Bruno Franceschelli, with whom he developed a close friendship. Bruno recalls their first meeting as follows: It was the early 1970s when Rino and I met for the first time in a bar in Montesacro, our neighbourhood. In that bar, I was “playing draughts” while Rino was “drinking lager from a can”. The bar was called Il Barone. I could describe that meeting as two people who had been searching for each other for a long time finally finding each other. Gaetano described the atmosphere of the bar mentioned by Franceschelli in the song Tu, forse non essenzialmente tu (You, perhaps not essentially you). The album cover shows the singer, in a deliberately blurred image, walking in front of a brick wall of his first home in Rome, with a…Citește mai mult

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Sanremo Music Festival Although not generally recognised outside of Italy, the Sanremo Music Festival is a popular annual song contest. Due to its pop music roots and pop culture positioning, it was not felt to be a route for a serious musician. The idea of bringing Rino Gaetano to the Sanremo Festival came from Vittorio Salvetti, creator of the Festivalbar, and Ennio Melis, artistic director of RCA. Pressure from RCA encouraged Gaetano to take part. He chose his new song Nuntereggae più. It was a highly innovative half-sung/ half-spoken proto-rap against several Italian sportsmen, politicians and other high-profile figures. However, the producers of the show forced him to drop the song, due to its now famous list of prominent Italians which it criticised, and swap the song with Gianna, a more light-hearted and musically catchier one. Gaetano did not appreciate this song very much, considering it too commercial and musically too similar to Berta filava, but in the end the record company managed to assert its opinion. On 26 January 1978, Gaetano appeared on stage at Sanremo wearing a black top hat (given to him by Renato Zero a few days earlier), evening dress red and white sneakers and bearing…Citește mai mult

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Bruno Franceschelli recalls the event: "The performance in Sanremo, from my point of view, was a demonstration of his talent as an artist. He brought a new air, funny and irreverent, and once again demonstrated his free spirit, free to laugh and joke on the 'sacred soil' of Sanremo." Gaetano's performance was well received by critics and audiences alike: in the end, the song came third, behind E dirsi ciao by Matia Bazar and Un'emozione da poco by Anna Oxa. The song went on to dominate the charts for several weeks. It remained in the Top Ten for 14 weeks and sold over 600,000 copies. A version of the song in German was released by Wolfgang Petry. Meanwhile, Gianna, thanks mainly to the springboard provided by Sanremo, became a hit in the discos of the Riviera and remained in the top ten for fourteen weeks, selling over 600,000 copies. The English version of the song, Gina, was never released, while the German version was sung by Wolfgang Petry. After participating in the Festival, Gaetano's previous career was practically overshadowed by the success of Gianna: for most of the public, the singer-songwriter was known simply as “the singer of Gianna”, while…Citește mai mult

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Nuntereggae più and controversy In the same year Gaetano appeared on Rai Radio 1 radio programme Canzone d'Autore. During the programme, emerging musicians are invited to comment on their own songs. The programme was called "E cantava le canzoni", a title taken from a song from his fourth album. On the same album is the now notorious "Nuntereggae più", and Gaetano was asked to discuss it because of the numerous political references and the long list of names in the lyrics. He replied: The songs are not political texts and I do not make speeches. This is just teasing. So, for me, "Nuntereggae più" is the lightest song I've ever done. Some verses of the song contain lists of names of people who at that time were prominent on the radio, television and newspapers. Some of the names included in the first version were deleted or replaced. For example, in the original version, written before his kidnapping, appeared the name of Aldo Moro. As a result of subsequent events, the name was later deleted from the text of the song, so as to avoid creating controversy. But other names were also deleted including the journalist Indro Montanelli, the actor Lino…Citește mai mult

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Vincenzo Mollica recalled: 'Nuntereggae' was a very entertaining song, but it also had the courage of its convictions, never holding back: it named names, at a time when naming names was very difficult. In that year, Gaetano participated in a tour and some evening events, the most famous of which is definitely Discomare '78 and specifically the final night held in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento on 23 August 1978. The singer was supposed to sing Nuntereggae più, but Rai tries to stop him and Rino in protest leaves the event. During the same period, he was invited by Maurizio Costanzo to appear on his television programme Acquario: the host and the then Member of Parliament Susanna Agnelli, who was a guest on the show, were two of the names mentioned in the song Nuntereggae più, which the singer-songwriter mimed in playback, once again wearing a top hat. Costanzo, who clearly did not appreciate the song, introduced the artist as “the author of ironic, playful and light-hearted songs who, given his passion for making lists, will soon devote himself to setting the Yellow pages to music”; the future senator, on the other hand, emphasised the right of young…Citește mai mult

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Final albums Participating in Sanremo marked a definite turning point in the singer-songwriter's career and life: Gaetano was a supernova. He shone for three years, from 1976 with Mio fratello è figlio unico to 1978 with Nuntereggae più. The success of Gianna at Sanremo took him by surprise; he didn't have time to come to terms with it. Encouraged by record producers to produce new songs, Rino Gaetano travelled to the island of Stromboli in search of inspiration, then on 23 February 1979 he flew to Mexico City where he recorded his new album. 1979 sees the release of Gaetano's fifth studio album, Resta vile maschio, dove vai? and his first with RCA. The album contains the first and only song in Gaetano's entire discography not written entirely by him: the lyrics of the title track were written by Mogol, after a meeting between him and the singer-songwriter. Despite the promotion, the LP did not achieve the hoped-for success and did not sell more than 200,000 copies. Gaetano attributed the album's lack of success to his decision to experiment with Latin American sounds, which were very popular at the time, in response to the crisis in singer-songwriter music (similar sounds…Citește mai mult

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Death On 8 January 1981 Gaetano was involved in a head-on collision when an off-road vehicle drove the wrong way along the road and pinned Gaetano's Volvo 343 against the guardrail; the singer was unharmed while his car was completely destroyed. Gaetano then bought a new Volvo 343, in metallic gray. On 31 May 1981, the singer-songwriter made his last television appearance, singing E io ci sto and Scusa Mary on the programme Crazy Bus aired on Rai Due. During those same days, he also recorded several songs with Anna Oxa, including a cover of Il leone e la gallina by Mogol and Lucio Battisti. On 2 June, at about 3 a.m., Gaetano was returning home alone in his Volvo 343. At 3:55 a.m., while along Rome's Via Nomentana, at the intersection of Viale XXI Aprile, he was in a head-on collision with a truck. The front and right side of the Volvo were destroyed. Gaetano's head struck the windscreen violently, smashing it, while his chest hit the steering wheel and dashboard with tremendous force. The autopsy revealed that the cause of the loss of control was a possible collapse before the impact. The lorry driver, Antonio Torres, who provided…Citește mai mult

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Ingresso libero (1974) Mio fratello è figlio unico (album) (1976)

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Live albums Q Concert (1981, with Riccardo Cocciante and New Perigeo)

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Compilations Gianna e le altre... (1990; includes the previously unreleased "Solo con io" and "Le beatitudini")

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La storia (1998) Sotto i cieli di Rino (2003, 2005)

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The Essential Rino Gaetano (2008) Live & Rarities (2009, with some unpublished tracks)

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I Love You Maryanna/Jaqueline (1973) Tu, forse non essenzialmente tu/E la vecchia salta con l'asta (1974) Ma il cielo è sempre più blu (1975) Mio fratello è figlio unico/Sfiorivano le viole (1976) Berta filava/Mio fratello è figlio unico (1976)