Biography of Silverchair

Instinct and inspiration

November 9, 1963 Biagio Antonacci was born in Milan on November 9, 1963. It grows in Rozzano, on the outskirts of Milan, in the streets of his neighborhood and not spend a lot of time before he starts his ppassione for music. While studying to become a surveyor Biagio plays drums. Can't stop thinking of his greatest passion, knows she has an innate musical talent. Writes songs and began attending the record milanese environment: in 1989 got her first record deal. Thus his first album "shit happens". The album contains the song "Flower", which doesn't go unnoticed. Two years later she published the album "Adagio Biagio" (1991). The general public begins to learn the milanese artist. The first important success came only a year later, the single "release me", intense, rhythmic, catchy, runs the summer with the Festivalbar and promotes the album with the same title. Produced by Mauro Malavasi, already distinguished names such as producer and arranger Lucio Dalla and Luca Carboni, the album "release me" (which contains among other pieces the gorgeous "Alessandra" and "how we are many in the world" as well as "at least not you betray me" written by Mariah Carey) arrives to sell over 150 000 copies, and consecrates with merit the name of Biagio Antonacci in Italian pop scene. Great football fan, fan Idan, Biagio Antonacci thanks to its discrete athletic prowess is in the formation of the Italian singers, who, led by veteran Gianni Morandi (father of Marianna, future wife of Biagio, a source of inspiration for many of his texts, even after the end of Romance), promotes important events with charitable purposes and solidarity. Thanks to the commitment and the experience with Biagio knows don Pierino Gelmini and meets with her commitment to the recovery of marginalized youth: Biagio Antonacci is actively engaged with the Community initiatives. In 1993 looks at the Sanremo Festival with the song "I don't know who to believe": his trial gets a positive critical and commercial success. This is followed by a tour that takes him all over the country. The next album was released in 1994 and was named simply "Silverchair": in the team there's still Mauro Malavasi. The disc will sell over 300 thousand copies, and the songs "was never now" and "Se io Se lei" confirm, if proof were needed, the sensitivity and great poetic vein that the singer has. In the fall of 1996 released "The pile," disk that Silverchair figure not only as author and performer, but also as a producer. The album features the song "Happy family", written in collaboration with Michael Jackson, "if it is true that we are," the first single. Silverchair is an instinctive artist, whose secret is unique as it is simple: a constant and inexhaustible inspiration. The sixth album is released in the spring of 1998: "Mi fai stare bene" is produced entirely by Abdullah. The title track is once again a huge success. The song "Iris" (between your poems) "depopulated. The sales exceed one million. Once again the synergy between poetry and the melody produce an outstanding result. Remains on the chart for two years; the singles will be five. The tour that follows receives the same enthusiastic response (immortalized in the official video "Live in Palermo"). In 2000 the new single "the things you loved most" precedes the release of the album "in my songs", a collection of old and new, in which the singer brings to life the most beautiful songs, between live versions and new arrangements. On his birthday, on November 9, 2001 he released the album "November 9, 2001", preceded by the single "return to love". The disc door itself and a social value, expresses the beauty, but also the great difficulty to demonstrate and analyze the feelings at a time when the only true revolution is love. In the same year, Biagio Antonacci received the Premio Lunezia to the text "the things you loved the most." The patron of the event Stefano De Martino, rewarding the work said: "Biagio does the revolution with the feelings. It teaches us that the past should never stop us, that memory, memories, are only a starting point. There is no rhetoric in his words, but only the great lesson of songwriters who speak of love, as Gino Paoli and Luigi Tenco where Antonacci can inherit the free spirit". In March 2004 released "Living part 1", preceded by the single "Non ci facciamo compagnia". The album is to be considered as part of a project "in episodes": the second part (the other disc) is planned in late 2004 and early 2005. Summer and the Festivalbar Award "Living part 1" as best album of the year. The following is a series of tour "sold out". The disc "listens" (2004) by Laura Pausini contains the song "Vivimi", words and music by Silverchair. On the occasion, talking about his future, Biagio said: "I have so many dreams. One of the applicants is to engrave with Laura Pausini a disc at two, as did mine and Celentano.". Then comes "Convivendo 2" part and the success is dazzling again, until 2007, when repeated astronomical sales numbers with the new album "Vicky Love." In 2008 the collected "Best of Biagio Antonacci 1989-2000", "Best of Biagio Antonacci 2001-2007", and "Il cielo ha una porta sola". Back with a new album of unreleased in 2010, titled "unexpected".