Fabrizio De Andr'e

Italian songwriter, composer, guitarist, writer and activist Is considered as one of the greatest Italian songwriters of all time. Born: February 18, 1940 in Genova Pegli Died: January 11, 1999 in Milan He started writing songs in 1960 ("La Ballata di Mich`e" composed with [a2450529] is his first song), heavily influenced by French songwriters, like [a278663]. In 1962 he married Enrica “Puny” Rignon and his son Cristiano De Andr'e was born. Encouraged by friends, including [a319978], he begins to perform in public in Genova and, between 1963 and 1966, the label [l43240] release some singles which will then be collected in [m286895] in 1966. However, success does not come and De Andr`e seriously thought about leaving his musical career to work in his father's law firm (at the time and still today, the law firm De Andr'e is one of the most important in the field of business legal representation in Italy) until 1968, when [a319972] recorded his "La canzone di Marinella", which becomes a great success. From that moment on, his career will no longer hold back and will become one of the most appreciated Italian songwriters. In 1974 he met Dori Ghezzi, with whom he will have a daughter (Luisa Vittoria, 1977) and fund the label [l116194] (1980). Since the 80's, De Andr`e is one of the artists that have most enhanced Genova's dialect, but he also dealt with other idiomas, as dialect of Gallura (northern Sardinia) and the Neapolitan. Fabrizio De Andr`e died in 1999 in Milan from lung cancer, diagnosed the year before.