Aleandro Baldi
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Aleandro Baldi | |
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| Born | Aleandro Civai 11 April 1959 |
| Occupation | singer-songwriter |
Aleandro Baldi (born 11 April 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer.
Life and career
Born in Greve in Chianti, Florence as Aleandro Civai, blind, Baldi began playing the guitar as an autodidact while he was at the Reggio Emilia College for the Blind.[1][2] He debuted in 1986, entering the Sanremo Music Festival with "La nave va", a song he composed and arranged, ranking second in the "Newcomers" section.[1][3] He later won the Newcomers section of the Festival in 1992, in a duet with Francesca Alotta, with the song "Non amarmi", which later became an international hit with the title "No Me Ames".[1][2] In 1994 Baldi won again the Sanremo Festival, this time in its "Big Artists" section, with the song "Passerà";[1][3] the song was covered by the group Il Divo in their debut album.[2] In 1994, Baldi also released an autobiographical book, Il sole dentro, written in collaboration with Marcello Lazzerini.[4] Outside of his musical career, Baldi is also a massophysiotherapist.[1][2]
Discography
Album
- 1987 - Aleandro Baldi
- 1989 - E sia così
- 1992 - Il sole
- 1994 - Ti chiedo onestà
- 1996 - Tu sei me
- 2002 - Il meglio e il nuovo
- 2007 - Liberamente tratto
- 2010 - Italian Love Songs
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "ALEANDRO BALDI: La biografia". MTV. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Enrico Deregibus (8 October 2010). Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. ISBN 978-8809756250.
- ↑ Maria Letizia Tartaglini (13 October 1994). "Lo " scrittore " Aleandro Baldi baciato dalla bella onorevole". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
External links
- 1959 births
- Living people
- People from Greve in Chianti
- Italian male singers
- Italian male singer-songwriters
- Italian singer-songwriters
- Italian pop singers
- Italian composers
- Italian male composers
- Sanremo Music Festival winners
- Sanremo Music Festival winners of the newcomers section
- Blind musicians
- Italian blind people