Memorial in the narrow streets in Genoa Italy to Fabrizio de Andre. He was a singer,songwriter and poet
18 February 1940 – 11 January 1999 FABRIZIO DE ANDRE was the anarchist son of a wealthy industrialist, a native of Genoa, and a singer-songwriter who was very sparing with his words: "I write songs and I speak," In a musical career spanning 35 years, what he said, however, moved generations of young Italians, and had a profound effect on the nation's song-writing tradition. With his deeply lined face, constantly half-obscured by smoke from a never-ending string of cigarettes, De Andre would not have looked out of place as a night-club crooner. But his intense, mesmerising ballads - of the outcast and downcast, of war and religion, of the iniquities of power and capitalist would have jarred in that atmosphere. Besides, such close and regular contact with the public would have been hell for this very private performer. " Music was the driving force in the life of De Andre who, as a teenager in the 1950s, would hawk his compositions around record producers in Milan. In 1965, he penned "La canzone di Marinella" ("Marinella's Song"), which was recorded by the female singing star Mina. De Andre ditched university, and launched himself into a full-time musical career.
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Location: Genoa,Liguria,Italy
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