Biography of Samuele Bersani

Commitment, humor and visions

October 1, 1970 Samuele Bersani even as a child he dreamed of becoming a singer-songwriter. Though not one of those lame that repeat with stencil or even an Italian melodic. Was born in Rimini on October 1970, son of Raffaele (flutist, an investigator or a Pink Floyd of Cattolica) and glory, which sends you a passion for cinema and poetry. The House of Cattolica is a kind of laboratory of sound experiences, and already in his early years Samuel developed a strong feeling for the music, starting to sound spontaneously any instruments whenever he could. He likes to sing. Indeed fails to shut up. Invent stories, accompanying himself-so to speak-on guitar or sudden movements on the floor who unknowingly are almost always recorded by the father. If there's a blue period for the artist, for him to 7/8 years there was that of a minor, and the excessive use of such harmony threatened to leave a permanent mark of melancholy. Lucky for him he discovers a booklet with all agreements (even those more ...) and then there are more enclosures and we start to skyrocket! While doing guy, fonda and abandons a number of local groups, becoming a good keyboard player. Started his own e participates in a series of competitions. The real artistic debut dates back to 1991. Bersani Debuts "piano and voice" with the song "the monster", within the tour "change" by Lucio Dalla. It's a hypnotic song tells of a giant six-legged and hairy monster, that rintanatosi in a kind of courtyard is surrounded by the curiosity of a global two-legged monsters and then killed in the name of its diversity. The five minutes of "the monster" in The tour becomes a constant, because every night from perfect stranger Samuel sings the first few notes, there is immediately a spell with the public and among public squares and sports arenas in more than sixty concerts to know him already. He moved to Bologna, and in 1992 he released his first album. "They took everything," presented by a song-polaroid, "chili and Pin", which becomes in a few weeks a "case", a very successful video and after some time a real cult. In 1994 he writes for Fiorella Mannoia the lyrics of "Crazy Boy" and in 1995 comes up with "Freak" (half-serious portrait of a neo-hippie generation with ATMs, video shot by Alex Infascelli in India). More than 130,000 copies sold, 56 consecutive weeks of attendance in the top 100 of the rankings FIMI/Nielsen. The disk in addition to the title track contains songs such as "Song", "I fall down" and "what do you want from me", cover of the Waterboys (one of his favorite bands). In the summer of 1997 the fulminant start single "Crocodiles" opens the way to the third cd, entitled simply Samuele Bersani and contains what for many is a masterpiece, "Universal Judgments" existential portrait WINS thrilling Lunezia 1998 for best literary text (the jury is chaired by writer Fernanda Pivano). In October 1998 under the supervision of David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel's time collaborator), Bersani affects the song "we are cats", driving motive of the soundtrack to the cartoon "story of a Seagull and the cat who taught her to fly", directed by Enzo D ' Alò and adapted from the book by Luis Sépulveda. In that same year he wrote for Ornella Vanoni the lyrics for "island", to music by Ryuichi Sakamoto. With the 2000 arrives the first Sanremo Music Festival: the song that presents, "Replay", marks her musical comeback after three years of silence and offers a preview from shivers of her new album: arranged and produced together with Beppe D'onghia here is "The Special Horoscope". Sanremo "Replay" won the critics ' prize. In September of that year began to compose the soundtrack for the movie by Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo entitled "Chiedimi se sono felice" that will be the most beloved of the movie season. His way of writing becomes hit record and in October while his "the fisherman of asterisks" is still in high rotation in all radio, receives the Targa Tenco for "The Special Horoscope" recognized as the best Album of the year. In 2002 contributes to the album "Poison" by Mina, writing an original titled "percentage" and at the end of the year he published his first collection "what a life! The best of Samuele Bersani ", a" best of "jumped immediately to the top of the charts, containing 18 hits, including three new songs:" Milingo "(Paola Cortellesi as Maria Sung)," my words "(written by Pacific) and the namesake" what a life! " (that relies on the presence of Roy Paci to winds). After a long research work, split with producer Roberto Guarino, in 2003 he released his sixth album, "Smog Candy", which marks a further step in his lyrical visionary and will lead him to win two plaques Tenco (best album of the year and best song with "bad"). The latter is a song that becomes a trend media spectacle musical poster facts of crime news and current events. Within the disk, much sought after even musically, there are important collaborations with Fausto Mesolella of Avion Travel, Zenima, Ferruccio Spinetti, Cesare Picco, Rocco Tanica, Fabio Concato and kill Hannah. And in 2004, just for output with the disc titled "Kill Hannah on the trail", Samuel will write the lyrics for "Ferragosto". "The Afterlife", released on May 19, 2006 and after not many weeks already awarded a gold disc is anticipated from the instant song "non-voting" Scrutineers (a portrait of who in life is unable to be consistent), which is the first example in Italy of song release of Jet and put it immediately on i-Tunes, resulting in splash immediately at the top of the rankings of downloads via the internet and playlists of video clips with a short animation created nothing except from Dutch internationally renowned contemporary artist Dadara, which for him also invented the painting on the cover of the album. To open the cd, (made in his Catholic with Roberto Guarino and Tony Pascual) awaits the sweetness of "forget" that great love ballad called "A delirious poetry", and "broken Glasses", anti-war song dedicated to journalist Enzo Baldoni. Another mainstay of the CD is "Precarious", the story of a substitute teacher that besides not having a permanent place doesn't even have certainties in private life and remains eternally being tested. In "the Afterlife" continues cooperation with Pacific (author of the music of "Maciste") and with "as two burros", opens with one of the most valid and original guitarists, Armando courses. On July 21, 2007 Samuele Bersani was awarded the Amnesty International Award for the song "broken Glasses" as best song concerning human rights. The producer Samuel alternates periods of apparent darkness, because "to write one must live". Supports amused to have a record of absence from television the past few years, a bit because you don't love appear, somewhat because he says he is not suited to the times. Its true dimension in recent years has become one of the concerts, where between theatres, clubs and prestigious squares built a remarkable relationship of empathy with the public. Hear him sing live, hear him out spontaneously all humor at its disposal is a valuable opportunity to understand not only the songwriter but also the person before us. At the beginning of October 2009 publishes a new disc entitled "manifest unfairness", preceded by the single "Ferragosto" in summer.
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