Zucchero Fornaciari
Zucchero ( born September 25, 1955 in Roncocesi (Reggio Emilia ), Emilia -Romagna Adelmo Fornaciari as ) is an Italian singer- songwriter whose music, which is published in English or Italian, is inspired by gospel, blues and rock music, and the bandwidth of ballads to more boogie -like pieces ranges. His most famous song Senza una donna should be sung with Paul Young ( 1991).
His stage name ( zucchero, Italian for sugar) he was due to a childhood memory: A primary school teacher told him he was sweet as sugar, and called him " marmellata e zucchero " ( jam and sugar).
Life
He began his career in 1970 with his first single, before 1983 he released his first album.
He had resounding success in 1989 with the album Oro incenso e birra (gold, frankincense, and beer), which is the biggest selling album in Italian history has been already before publication, there were nearly one million pre-orders for it. This contains are, inter alia, Diavolo in me, (the devil in me) and Diamante texted by Francesco De Gregori, the grandmother of the singer dedicated.
In 1992, he was the only Italian singer who was invited to the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. There he sang the song Las palabras de amor in memory of the singer of Queen: Thus began the musical collaboration and friendship with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor.
In 1994, he was again the only participant from Italy at the concert of Woodstock II
Among his major achievements include songs such as X colpa di chi? ( whose fault? ) ( from the album Spirito DiVino ), Così celeste ( with Cheb Mami ) and " Il grande baboomba ", with whom he won Festivalbar in 2004.
Crowned with great success was the cooperation with the Mexican group Maná. This Zucchero Baila Morena has the song sung among others and worked on their album Revolución de amor. Together they sing the song Eres mi religión there.
His 2004 album ZU & Co, which contains among other duets with Miles Davis, Paul Young, Sheryl Crow, Dolores O'Riordan ( The Cranberries ), BB King, John Lee Hooker, Brian May and Sting are included, has a million-fold paragraph found throughout the world.
Zucchero occurred in the context of the worldwide Live 8 benefit concerts on 2 July 2005 in Rome and Paris.
In September 2006 his album Fly appeared. It represents a change of style, contains more pop and many ballads. It was created in collaboration with artists such as Ivano Fossati and Jovanotti.
In November 2007, his album All the Best, on having him covered with Wonderful Life (Black) and I Will not Let You Down ( Ph.D.) two classics of the 80s appeared. On 4 December 2008, a CD / DVD set was released from his Tour 2008 - Live in Italy.
On 19 November 2010 the album Chocabeck appeared. In eleven songs Zucchero conjures up the picture of the daily life of a peasant village in the Italian province, referring to his own youth in the region Emilia -Romagna. "My parents were farmers, and when I was little, we never had a great deal of money ," says Zucchero, " Sunday cake was something special for us. " When there was no and he asked about it, the answer was, there would instead " Chocabeck ". A word game that is " rattle " from ( " choca ") and " beak" ( " beck" ) composed and means that a beak rattles because it is empty again, because there is no lining.
After a two year break album was released on November 19, 2012 his latest album La Sesion Cubana. Zucchero met with his new album and the first single Guantanamera a long-standing dream: La Cubana Sesión was - as the title suggests - was added in the Cuban capital of Havana and includes collaborative works with some of the most important musicians of the Caribbean and South America. Produced La Sesión Cubana Zucchero and Don Was and presents seven of the largest Zucchero hits, all rearranged and in the Latin -tinged sound, including Baila Cuba Libre and Everybody 's Got To Learn Sometime - as well as six previously unreleased songs including the cover Guantanamera, which acts as the first single and was sung by Zucchero for the new album in his native Italian. Under the title Una rosa blanca, he published the following year, the album again with a live CD with recordings of a concert in Havana from December 2012