IMIsound Spotlight Artist: Gianni Rosini
November 26th, 2007 —
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Gianni Rosini was born in Gioia del Colle (Bari) on 31.05.61, in a family that was already contaminated by the music virus; the evidence lying in the splendid performance of his mother, Vera Greco, in “Ie te vurria vasà”. Right from the start Gianni and his brother Mario, runner-up with “Sei la Vita Mia” (You’re my Life) in the 2004 Sanremo Festival, showed their musical talent and found their first admirer and supporter in master Procino.
The Rosini brothers started to attend master Partipilo’s music school and, thanks to their natural gift and young age, were soon participating in song festivals for children and later as a festival attraction in the surrounding villages and towns. At the age of eighteen, Gianni Rosini decided to leave Gioia del Colle and moved to Milan where his artistic abilities were soon noticed and he also began to receive invitations to perform abroad. As a consequence he started to perform in important venues in a number of major European capitals (Vienna, Berlin, Paris etc.) with a repertoire that ranged from international hits to classic Italian songs. Success and its inevitable entourage created in Gianni the urge, the need, to return to his native land and his roots.
Once home, Gianni gathered around him a number of talented musician friends: his brother Mario, an extraordinary pianist, the drummer Mimmo Campanale and the bass player Paolo Romano (currently involved in numerous jazz and pop projects), and formed a group that very quickly made itself known to the public thanks to its musical intensity and the charismatic stage presence of Gianni himself, a real showman. The formation of the group was followed by a long period of concerts in all the major festivals in southern Italy.
In the meantime Gianni nurtured his creative inspiration composing music which was to find favour amongst musical experts in general and in particular with Claudio Rispoli, aka Mozart, musician and producer, who endeavoured to persuade Gianni to record his first album. Unfortunately, Gianni’s restlessness, so typical of true artists, led him to flee from this first contact with the record industry and to enter an important period of artistic maturation triggered by his desire to experience Africa and her sonority. At this point Gianni took up residence for a period in Dakkar in direct contact with the real Africa, a country where extreme hardship merges with joy and with beauty of the truest deepest nature. All this can be found in the album “Giovanni”, in tracks such as “Africa”, “Splendida” or “Cico Bom Bom”. It was all that Gianni needed.
On his return to Italy, Gianni’s desire and need to shout out his emotions became possible in 2004 when his path crossed that of Michele Fazio, Mino Petruzzelli and Pino Mazzarano. These long-standing musician friends, each with a long and important musical experience both as soloists and in groups (the album “Bye Bye Patty Live”, the soundtrack to S. Rubini’s film “Tutto l’amore che c’è”, the tour with Ronnie Jones, Teo Teocoli, Gianluca Grignani etc.) were instantly enchanted by Gianni’s music and his project. This new formation, with the addition of the percussionist Francesco Pelizzari and the young bass player Pierpaolo Giandomenico, finally gave rise to Gianni’s long-awaited debut album, “Giovanni”.
The production of such a long-suffered and much loved creation could not be entrusted to anyone other than to Gianni’s first true supporter, Claudio Rispoli, whose understanding of the importance of the project led to his total dedication. This true life story, with its ups and its downs, its joy and its sufferance, has become the album “Giovanni”, a genuine product, like its author.
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