Ivano Fossati, 70 years of author music

(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 20 - Ten years ago he said goodbye to the scene (with the only exception of the two-year-old album with Mina which bears their names), but Ivano Fossati has never abdicated his role as a refined intellectual , shy artist and exceptional musician, able to leave his mark with an author's music that has spanned over 40 years. On 21 September Fossatic turns 70 (he was born in 1951 in Genoa, and the influence that the Genoese school had on his education cannot be denied), but his lesson as a traveler perpetually searching for new routes and paths to pursue still has a profound impact on his education. in the Italian musical culture. The beginning of Fossati's career falls just 50 years ago (it was 1971) with Delirium. It is the era of the Italian Progressive and the band - thefollowing year - leaves an important mark in the history of the Sanremo Festival with Jesahel. Mal'avventura did not last long and shortly after Fossati left the group to begin his solitary journey, always defending his intellectual and creative independence and keeping away from the most obvious media and market circuits. A multifaceted artist, Fossati has written not only for himself, but has given pieces of true poetry for others: from "A little emotion" with which a 17-year-old Anna Oxa made her debut at the Ariston in 1978 to "I'm not a lady", Loredana's rock manifesto Bertèdated 1982, passing through "Pensiero Stupendo", brought to success by Patty Pravo (1978). Then there is the collaboration with Mia Martini, with whom he had a long relationship, from which songs such as "And the sky does not end "(1982)," The construction of a love "(1978). He has collaborated on Scacchi etarocchi by Francesco De Gregori, written Anime Salve together with Fabrizio De Andre 'and, with him, collaborated on The clouds, signedbrani for Mina, Zucchero, Ornella Vanoni, Tiziano Ferro. He also had a fundamental role in the career of FiorellaMannoia: a partnership that began in 1988 when the Roman interpreter brought "The May Nights" to Sanremo and which also passes from the great success of "The Trains" steam ". (ANSA).He also had a fundamental role in FiorellaMannoia's career: a partnership that began in 1988 when the Roman interpreter brought "The May Nights" to Sanremo and which also passes from the great success of "The Steam Trains". (HANDLE).He also had a fundamental role in FiorellaMannoia's career: a partnership that began in 1988 when the Roman interpreter brought "The May Nights" to Sanremo and which also passes from the great success of "The Steam Trains". (HANDLE).