Biography of Renzo Arbore

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June 24, 1937 Reginald Abel, multifaceted character radio-television, actor, showman and musician, was born in Foggia on June 24, 1937. In his long career has succeeded in the difficult task of grapple with radio, music, film and television, always keeping intact its character. Abel was born in Foggia, but yes is Neapolitan by adoption, with a ceremony in the town, where he graduated in law. As an artist begins to make his way in his native town of Puglia, in the "Taverna del Gufo" after being the result of a complex jazz FAZ. Always at ease in showbiz romano, is one of the very few Italian showman to be equipped with fervent creativity and able to accept and achieve success with every program. In 1972 he started his first real experience in the music world with the complex "N.U. Orleans Rubbish Band" (where They are an acronym for "Sanitation"), band, as well as by the same Arbore to clarinet, by Fabrizio Chiari on drums, Mauro Paw on bass, Massimo Catalano on trombone and Franco Bracardi downstairs. With their publish a 45 rpm that contains the tracks "She was not an angel" and "The stage boy". Then begins his radio career with transmissions "yellow flag", "high popularity" and "Radio" alongside Gianni Boncompagni, innovative programs that reach immediately high ratings. The transition from radio to television will be short. The television career of Renzo Arbore begins at the end of the years ' 60, characterized by disputes, bitter confrontations and protests. A particular social and political moment that inspired Arbore "special for you". It's her first tv program that signature as author and host; is a musical programme that, without forcing it seek as in modern television, shows faithfully the climate of confrontation and contestation of the era. A program holding a christening names like Lucio Battisti, to name one. The audience intervened and criticism (even openly) guests who come to perform. Was in fact the first talk show on Italian television. In 1976 the Italians, educated in the Sunday tv "Domenica In", they find that on the second channel Rai there's "Sunday" program that Renzo Arbore lands national-popular televisions. Abel invents this show "alternative" that soon became a cult television. The audience enters directly to the program for the first time: "another Sunday" is a weird combination of games, impersonations and parodies with which Renzo launches, among others, people like Roberto Benigni, Milly Carlucci, Mario Marenco, the sisters flag, Giorgio Bracardi, gege Telesforo, Marisa Laurito, Nino Frassica, American cousin Andy Luotto, cartoons by Maurizio Nichetti, links with Isabella Rossellini from New York , and enhances people like Michele Mirabella, Luciano De Crescenzo and Microband. Here come the eighties and Arrbore back on tv as an author and host of "cuts, scraps and giblets" and "Telepatria International". In 1984, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of radio Rai, realizes what was probably already for some time a dream: invents and conducts "Dear friends, near and far", managing to involve Radio and television into a marriage seemed hitherto difficult, if not impossible. The 1985 is the year of "Quelli della notte", TV program that opens the "late night" in which Abel finds its place more. The transmission is the triumph of improvisation at its highest stage, capable of imposing a new style, in which the protagonists in the lounge they slack and speak freely following only a strand decreed by the theme of the episode. The result is a sudden and surprising as improvised comedy, rare and unique art in modern television that will be in the years to follow. Abdullah Meanwhile participates in San Remo in 1986 with the song "clarinet" and gets second place, turns the film "The eye" and "Pap F.F.S.S. Ie ... which led me to do over Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?". In 1987 the daily strip of "D. O.," musical program with "designation of origin", which opens to the general public the doors of jazz, blues and rock, and that Abel places a year later in the time slot "night" favorite in the transmission to him entitled "International Club" D. O.. But this is the year of "Back", satirical program that describes and condemns the bud television which we see today. Arbore is Admiral of this ship sailing backwards, assisted, in 65 episodes daily, from "good speaker" Nino Frassica. A "rabble" bizarre prefeticamente mocks with hilarious inventions what would have been the television of the future: between quizzoni, meravigliaio and sponsorao with cocoa "cluck" veline, one cannot but admire the great vision that Abel and his companions had already then. In 1990 leads "Sanremo" where in a mock trial is judge on deeds and misdeeds of history surrounded by an unlikely singing contest of Sanremo Court and lawyers played by Michele Mirabella and Lino Banfi. In 1991 appears as conductor just in an evening dedicated to the comparison between the Italian music of the forties and the American one. 1992 makes a heartfelt tribute to Totò television with "Dear Toto ... I want to introduce" program to celebrate the artistic greatness of Prince of laughter. For 22 consecutive hours, nonstop, in 1996 Arbore leads "La Giostra" Live Satellite for Rai International, of which he became artistic director and testimonials; leaves almost permanently raids on the small screen: after all the television model that has always characterized is linked to the jam sessions, where preparation and improvisation come together to create a fun party game. The relationship too tight with Auditel trade laws that give the space devoted to culture the outgrown and prefers to express his talents in other ways. In 1991 he founded the Italian Orchestra ", composed by fifteen great performers, aiming to spread throughout the world the classic Neapolitan song. In 1993 gets a resounding success at Radio City Music Hall in New York. He appeared again on the small screen only in 2001, when repeats on Rai-Sat his showcult "The other Sunday"; It also features three special on Japan: Italian "sushi", "Tokyo" and "Sotto a chi An Italian in Tokyo". Apart from a very brief series aired in 2002 ("am happy sol so when I sing night and day: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Si"), in May of that year was the protagonist of the "Maurizio Costanzo Show", which celebrated his career as a musician and showman , television moment that recalls the Arbore was able to make a unique television , which does not admit definitions, rich in nuances and combination of different art forms, from radio to cinema, from theatre to journalism. An episode focusing on his career seems to open the door to a permanent withdrawal but Renzo Arbore never ceases to amaze and Saturday January 22, 2005 made his television comeback with "special to Me", or "the fewer, the better we are," which proves once again to be ahead by at least a decade. In 2006 he participates in the first episode of the series "Don Matteo", alongside Terence Hill and the following year he returned to prime time in "we are working for us," cabaret programme conducted by veterans Cochi e Renato then appear also among guests of snow fall in "Che tempo Che fa" and Simona Ventura in "Those che...il soccer".