Biography of Sandro Ciotti

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November 4, 1928
July 18, 2003
Sandro Ciotti, born Alexander, was born in Rome on November 4, 1928. At birth has already an exceptional Godfather: the Roman dialect poet Trilussa, who is a close friend of his father and who taught him the taste for irony, teaching that Sandro will do just, always putting in his work the right amount of this virtue. The father, Gino Ciotti, journalist and collaborator of "Il settebello", dies suddenly of septicemia, contracted disease due to swimming in the Tiber. From an early age Sandro shows great passion for music, she attended the Conservatory studying violin, which calcium. Both of these passions remain constant companions throughout his life. Start playing young postwar youth Lazio and plays in Forlì, Ancona and in Frosinone. He graduated in law and then decides to abandon his sporting career.
Thus began his career as a teacher: teaches Italian and physical education. Sandor Ciotti began working with various newspapers and magazines starting in 1954. He collaborated with The newspaper "La Repubblica", "Italy" and "Paese Sera". During this time he focuses on music, also follows the Sanremo Festival in 1954. And it is thanks to his work as a music critic who begins his friendship with Fred Buscaglione and Luigi Tenco, for which he writes the lyrics of some songs. During the late 1950s and early 1960s works at editorial staff of "TV sorrisi e canzoni" and in 1958 entering Rai as author of radio programs. Her debut as a voice of football commentaries takes place during the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960: the meeting is what he sees as opposed the Danish national and argentina. This first followed by commentary Tokyo Olympiad in 1964. In re the suicide of his friend Luigi Tenco, in 1967, there's Sandro Ciotti, the documentary "death of Tenco". Meanwhile its commitment continues with several radio broadcasts: "screens and doors", "news", "Take" and "Film".
His gruff voice became her trademark. The special stamp is actually due to a vocal cord edema contract during the 14 hours of live in the pouring rain Mexican 1968 Olympics. As he himself says, after diagnosis, believes having to abandon her career, partly because the surgery that he would regain his stamp looks very risky. Sandro so chooses to keep the voice rocca, opting for a solution that will prove providential, earning the nickname "The voice". His voice then will become even more hoarse because of addiction. His first television-run dates back to 1972, when he was entrusted with the program "Telecanzoniere" on Rai due. Evening transmission that combines humor and music, with the participation of famous singers like: Massimo Ranieri, Domenico Modugno and the rich and the poor. Sandro Ciotti alternates his work sent for "Italian soccer minute by minute," with original broadcasts and ironic, as a radio show dedicated to the tradition of smooth. Meanwhile continues to cultivate his passion for music by writing songs like "Flight" performed by Peppino di Capri, and "Veronica" written with Enzo Jannacci.
In 1976 as Director of a documentary titled "the Prophet of the goal", focusing on the figure of Dutch superstar Johan Cruyff. Leads from 1986 to 1991 "domenica sportiva" alongside Maria Teresa Ruta and then continues to hold a small column titled "Sandro Ciotti". It is he himself, in 1996, at the end of the commentary of the last League match Cagliari-Parma to announce his retirement from the role of commentator, stealing a few minutes after the meeting to thank the ascoltatoti of affection received. Despite retiring from the activity continues to work: join the film by Piero Chiambretti "the graduate," and the movie "The big plum" by Claudio Malaponte; also writes his autobiography "forty years of words ', published in 1997. Sandro Ciotti died in Rome on July 18, 2003, at the age of 74 years. In his career he has to well thirty-seven San Remo Festival, Italy, nine rounds of Tour de France fifteen, fourteen Olympics, two FIS and ben 2400 football matches, through the microphones of the now famous "Italian soccer minute by minute".
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