Marco Masini

Marco Masini (born September 18, 1964) is an Italian singer-songwriter

Career

Marco Masini was born on September 18, 1964, the Italian city of Florence.^[1] His mother, Anna Maria, sang and played piano, and was an elementary school teacher before she quit the profession to have a life at home with the family. His father, Giancarlo, worked as a representative of products for hairdressers. When Marco was three years old he received piano as a Christmas present: He put his hands on it and then how to play the songWhite Christmasjust to hear it. Taking the advice of his uncle, in March began to take music lessons and some years later, came to study large stars of European traditional music, Chopin and Mozart were beginning a solicitation to Marco Masini. Although he also loved pop music, classic rock and traditional music of Italy. When he was 11 years, he had the opportunity to touch the holy festival of the patron of a small town near Florence. He played many musical styles, from disco to Liscia to classical revival. During high school he created, along with friends, a music group called Errata Fixes. When he was 15, he played on a team called Sanger and participated in trials to play. However, there may he decided to leave the sport because he loved music.

The lack of both professions to join coalition (which led him to go out every night and come home too late) and student life made him leave school when I was in 4th year of school accounting, causing problems not only with its family, but also with their friends.

For a time, Marco has worked with his father as a representative. In 1980 the family opened a bar in Florence, where Marco has helped, along with her sister Susan. But the fight between Marco and his father increased, causing great suffering by her mother.

Some years later, she was a Cancer and her husband was forced to sell the bar. Marco left to serve in the army (military aircraft in Florence), and one day after his return on August 22, 1984, his mother died, to the profound sadness of Marco, who always regretted the fact that he could not be close to her in her last moments.

His involvement in music grew, he went to Modena for six months, make arrangements for the music disc in a recording studio, then returned to Florence to continue his studies of harmony, melody and composition, while still playing in piano bars. One of his professors was Walter Savelli, pianist Claudio Baglioni, and teacher of many famous artists.

Although he had composed a large number of pieces (including a subscription to a music club), Marco had difficulty presenting them to record companies, whose executives insisted that "he had the right face for an artist." They also told him that his letters were strange and did not conform to what the public wanted to hear.

Thanks to Bob Rosati, arranger and owner of a studio in Sesto Fiorentino, Marco began recording their first demos, he met Beppe Dati, composer and poet, who wrote several plays. In 1986 he had a fateful encounter with Bigazzi, in a studio located in Settignano, where Mark played him some of his demos. Bigazzi helped maximize his gifts: Marco sang a few soundtracks (Mediterraneo, Mary Per Sempre, Ragazzi Fuori), performed vocals on Si PUO Dare di Più (sung by Morandi, Ruggeri and Tozzi in Sanremo Festival) and participated in the competition Tozzi Royal Albert Hall in London (Marco made the arrangements, keyboards and immensely remix). He embarked on his first tour in 1987, appeared in competition with Raf, and was responsible for production and arrangements of the album Cosa restera ....

In 1988 he made an album called Uomini, because the initiative of Mario Ragni, with whom he should participate in the Sanremo Festival. However Charlie Deanesi participated that year instead.

Marco did not give up. After reconciling with his father, he began writing Disperato, working with Bigazzi and Dati on the text. In 1990 he participated with this song at the Sanremo Festival, reaching number one in the "Young Artists". Returning from America (where he participated in Sanremo in the World), Marco began to produce their first album, "Marco Masini", for which there were only two records: "Disperato" and "Dal Buio" (written to be sung by Massimo Ranieri ). When he finished his first album, he worked on his second to participate in Sanremo '91. He prepared a piece called Ossigeno, but another song was chosen so fai Perche, which earned him third place after Riccardo Cocciante and Renato Zero. The single sold more than any other in Italy during 1991.

The new album was published under the title Malinconoia (the new word coined by Marco indicating a mixture of melancholy and paranoia), a term that can be found in the Dictionary of Italian Language edited by G. Devoto and GC Oli. Marco began to prepare his first tour with friends with whom he had played and produced some records: Mario Manzano (guitar), Massimo Rastrelli (guitar - he played with it also corrects errata), Bruno Illiano (computers, keyboards), Marcello for Toffoli, Alfredo Golino (drums), Andrea Corsellini (phonetics). The same year he participated in and won Festivalbar because their album was rated as the best album of the year, while the Malinconoia music video, recorded during a concert at Palaeur in Rome, won as the best live video Riminicinema '91.

After being locked in a studio near Orvieto registration on 14 January, 1993 Marco published T'Innamorerai, the album that opened the door to the world of scandal and the album, because it contained a song titled vaffanculo ("Fuck "), which caused controversy and censorship on TV and radio. Meanwhile, in Spain, where a collection of some songs taken from the first two albums entitled Marco Masini has had great success, and earned a Gold Record with this album published in Spanish (and fall in love). Also T'Innamorerai was published in Germany and France, giving a confirmation of the great expectations, there Obtaining Also the Golden Disc.

As already mentioned, the song was particularly criticized vaffanculo: it is a real Masini outburst against his detractors, who set him a corrupter of youth, a loser, a pessimist, a singer who brings depression. For many Masini was only a groan. This is because he often faces social issues in his songs in a deep and direct.

In 1995 (January), the fourth album was released, Il Cielo della Vergine, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Spanish version (El Cielo de Virgo), in Spain and Latin America. On this album he was criticized again, this time because of two songs Stronza Bella ("Beautiful Bastard (female)") and Principessa, both very direct and explicit.

In 1996 he published L'Amore Sia Con Te, a compilation of his greatest hits, with the new song that gives title to the album and Meglio Solo, an old song recorded in the B-side single Disperato. This collection was also released in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mi Amor al eStara, presenting a slightly different tracklist. During the summer, the tour called L'amore Sia Con Te occurred.

In 1997, Marco Enrico Ruggeri called him to sing with La Gente di Cuore, included in the album Domani è un Altro Giorno by Ruggeri.

After nearly four years of silence, on November 12, 1998, published the Marco Scimmie album, published by Ma label. Ma, founded by himself, Mario and Marco Manzani Poggione. This new album was a major turning point in the production, which played in front of the public with a new look: white hair and beard. But mostly, he said the separation of Bigazzi, Marco's old teacher, who had marked the beginning of his musical career. The disc is a harder rock and the lyrics are generally less sentimental, but more airtight, with Scimmie, Marco said he wanted to recover music from the seventies, he loved and that was back in fashion: the views of critics was strangely positive, but negative public opinion was, that decreed the album's commercial failure misunderstood.

References

1. ^ Simonis, Damien (2006-03-01). Florence. Lonely Planet. pp. 37–. ISBN 9781740598095. http://books.google.com/books?id=hvVU_oWYBOUC&pg=PA37. Retrieved 28 July 2011. 

External links

• Official website
• All Masini's lyrics