Biography of Nino D'angelo

Napoli nel cuore

June 21, 1957
Erika Davis, aka Nino, was born in San Pietro a Patierno, a suburb of Naples, June 21, 1957. Oldest of six children, father and housewife mother, worker starts singing the first songs on the knees of his maternal grandfather, a great lover of Neapolitan music. Growing up, while his peers are swayed by modern groups (these are the years in which the "world" Hosanna music the Beatles), the little Nino binds increasingly to the music of his homeland, its origins, and its interpreters: myths such as Sergio Bruni, Mario Abbate, Mario Merola. During a show amateur, in the parish of St. Benedict in Casoria, was discovered by Father Raphael, a Capuchin friar, which makes you and helps him to pursue a career as a singer. Started to appear in almost all festivals of new voices that are held in the city and province, and soon becomes one of the most popular singers of the galleria Umberto I in Naples, meeting place for small businessmen who organize weddings and carnivals.
In 1976, thanks to a collection of familiar, manages to put together enough money to record his first 45 rpm, entitled "my history" (or mug), which he sells with the system of door to door sales. The success of this record exceeds all expectations and thus was born the idea of making a skit of the same name, which is followed by others: "Mr", "' and sons d ' to charity", "the last Christmas ' and my dad," "' A parturente". We are at the beginning of the years ' 80, and Nino D'Angelo open the doors of the big screen. With the film "celebrities", D'Angelo starts moving in the cinema, but it's just a tasty appetizer before knowing the success with films of "the student", "Ave Maria", "Betrayal and Swearing". In 1981 he wrote "Nu jeans e na shirt", mother of all neo-melodic songs, which consolidates Nino D'Angelo as one of the most beloved artists by the people of Neapolitan song. After the film of the same name, its success is rampant and his image with the Golden helmet becomes the emblem of all boys of southern neighborhoods.
The 1986 is the year of his first participation at Sanremo Festival with the song "go". Then the movies with: "disco", "A street urchin in New York," "Popcorn and chips", "The fan", "picture story", "the kid", "curve B metro girl", "I swear that I love you". In 1991 he faces a period of depression due to the loss of parents and feel the need for change. With regret of his older fans, cuts her hair blonde and begins a new musical path, no longer based only on love stories, but also out of snippets of daily life. Born "and life goes on", "good boy" and especially "Tiempo", perhaps the disc less sold, but certainly the most appreciated by critics. Finally even more intellectual critics began to notice him and the contents of the texts of his songs. Hence the critical meeting with Goffredo Fofi, authoritative, and Roberta Torre, then young Director, who decides to make a short film telling the life not only of D'angelo artist, but also of man, titled "Angel's life", which is then presented at the Venice Film Festival attracting many approvals.
The following year, the same tower he propose to create the soundtrack of his first feature film, "Tano da morire". Starting to get certificates of esteem, and the most coveted awards: Academy Awards, Golden Globe, camera and Silver Ribbon, along with the definitive consecration of his artistic development. Acquainted with Mimmo Palladino, one of the most important contemporary artists, who, after realizing in piazza del Plebiscito a work of great dimensions, "salt mountain", chose him as a representative of a city that cradles the desire for redemption. And a wonderful new year's Eve, Nino first met the Mayor of Naples, Antonio Bassolino, who, impressed by the incredible complicity between the former blond Bob to his people the open doors of Mercadante, the most prestigious theatre of the city. So coming in the first "Core pazzo" directed by Laura Angiuli. The Mayor of Naples also offers the opportunity to celebrate his forty years in the square; Obviously assumes the idea of an evening in piazza del Plebiscito, preferring Scampia, where there is its people, where his Naples. This also becomes an opportunity to present the new disc, "nu pass'd ' in the city". This is yet another artistic breakthrough, the most complex.
A somersault without a safety net, in the name of marriage between the Neapolitan song and some type of world music. Gone are the days of "Nu jeans e ' na ': D'Angelo discovers a vein of author that allows him to combine the popular melody sounds on the borders of jazz and ethnic music. In 1998 leads along with Piero Chiambretti Sanremo Festival, "after", and the following year will go there as a singer with the song "Without a suit and tie". Meanwhile, the non-musical film "" finds actor and entrusted him with leading roles in "Paparazzi," "Christmas vacation 2000" and "fans", the latter alongside another symbol of the history of Napoli, Diego Maradona.
In June 2000, the popular blockbuster parody "Anic" (Titanic), in which he debuted in the role of Director. Also comes the encounter with theatre, is no longer made of dramatics, but it works. Immediately by a master, Raffaele Viviani, from his "Last scugnizzo", achieving great success with audiences and critics. With this representation WINS Gassman. In the fall of 2001 he released the new album, titled "black earth", sample sales. In March 2002 he participates in the Sanremo Festival with the song "Mari", included in the compilation "the party" compilation album to celebrate its 25 years of artistic career. In April 2002 Pupi Avati wants him in her new film, "IL cuore altrove", as supporting actor. For this interpretation he was awarded the coveted premio Flaiano.
In the summer of that year, he was awarded the premio Fregene for "Fellini" for the soundtrack of the film "Aitanic". In 2003 back to 53° Festival di Sanremo, presenting a new race track "' A story ' e nisciuno", coming third in the ranking for the critics ' prize. Simultaneously released "' or slave and ' or rre" album of unreleased containing the same single. But the real success of the latter work sara "or ' pate". From November 2003 to March 2004 back in the theater, still starring in the stage play "Guappo" cardboard, also by Raffaele Viviani, while surprisingly is located at the top of all charts of Moldova and Romania, with the song "Without a suit and tie". They get many requests from abroad, and so in October 2004, Nino part for a new tour in the United States and in Canada. The February 4, 2005 Nino D'Angelo shows up at the Museum of the Neapolitan song on new album, preceded by the statement shock in which the artist announces that this could be his last work unpublished. The album, titled "the sauce with the war", he wants to be the last chapter of the new journey that began with the release of "A nu pass ' of ' in the city".
In the wake of the success of the latest cd, Channel 5 proposes to conduct a program in prime time inspired her career, titled "I never asked anything," in the palasport of his Casoria, in which Nino has many of his accomplishments forth with her friends Giancarlo Giannini, Massimo Ranieri, Sebastiano Somma. Strong of the great theatrical experience, gained on the most prestigious National stages, Nino decides again to modify its "Core pazzo". The show debuts in December Theater Augusteo Naples, resulting in a short time acclaim and many certificates of esteem. In fact, with this show, gives a chance to the young neo-Neapolitan melodic to have greater visibility, telling the story through their voices and his poems the journey of their lives. "Core pazzo" looks like musicals by large personal emotions and social content so strong that the same region of Campania, in the person of President Antonio Bassolino, has seen fit to promote it as a socio-cultural event by bringing in schools. Nino D'Angelo returns to the Festival di Sanremo (2010) singing a song in Neapolitan, entitled ' jamme jà ".
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