Mourning in the world of Italian music: it is Giovanna Marini died at the age of 87. The singer passed away after a short illness. You have dedicated your entire career to folk culture and Traditional oral sung music.
The singer-songwriter and researcher Giovanna Marini has died
Active on the music scene since the 1960s, she was a protagonist together with other great artists in the laboratories of ideas that were crucial in highlighting the precious reconstruction of Italian musical and social history.
Born in 1937 a Rome from a family of musicians, in 2015, in an interview given to the newspaper La Repubblica, he revealed that he had never met his paternal parent.
An image of Giovanna Marini
“My father – whom I never met, he died at 29 when I was born – was a composer, a student of Respighi and Casella. An anarchic talent – explained Marini – whose music is still performed. My mother taught at the conservatory for a long time.”
“My ballads, but also the works for the quartet, are born from the desire to tell stories, to tell what happens to me and what I see around me. A bit like storytellers. I have always loved telling stories!”. Thus the musician in the book Ignazio Macchiarella: The necessary song.
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Studies and collaboration with Francesco De Gregori
Giovanna Marini studied classical guitar with Andrés Segovia and has made an inexhaustible commitment throughout her life in research relating to the genre of popular music.
He explored the peasant one, the war one and the fighting one, going for years to find gems along the country.
He has also collaborated with the cinematographic environment, as well as playing in numerous concerts with the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano group.
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In 2002 he published with Francesco De Gregori The steam whistle, then Bongiorno and Bonasera taken on tour with the jazz group Animali marino, and the album Passioni.
The awards won by Giovanna Marini
He has won many awards during his career. Below is the complete list of awards obtained:
- 1983 – Tenco Award
- 1988 – Special UBU critics’ prize for the music of Les Troyennes d’Euripides
- 1995 – Special UBU critics’ award for the music of I turcs tal Friul
- 1997 – Commandeur des arts et des lettres
- 2003 – Targa Tenco
- 2004 – Commander of the Italian Republic
- 2004 – Nonino Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2006 – Maria Carta Award
- 2006 – Scanno Prize for music
- 2006 – Palmi Award
- 2007 – Montalcino Prize for music
- 2007 – Charles Cros Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2009 – National City of Loano Award
- 2012 – Enotria Award. Perticara Guard
- 2014 – Agerola Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2014 – Lifetime Achievement Award. Genoa – Mediterranean Festival
- 2015 – “Chords & voices for dialogue and rights” award from Sarzana
- 2015 – Lifetime Achievement Award. Carpino Folk Festival
- 2016 – Renato Nicolini Award
- 2017 – Special Artist Award. “La Zampogna” Festival XXIV Edition – Maranola (LT)
- 2017 – Golden Catone – Monte Porzio Catone
- 2017 – The memory that remains. Cervara honorary citizenship of Rome
- 2018 – Concetta Barra Award – Procida Island[53]
- 2019 – Valsusa Filmfest – Bruno Carli Award
- 2019 – Anassilaos Music Award Musician, singer-songwriter, scholar of Italian folklore, one of the most important figures in the study, research and performance of the Italian popular musical tradition.
- 2019 – Sila ’49 Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2022 – XVIII edition of the Terni Film Festival: Best soundtrack for the film Giovanna Marini – stories of a voice, Italy
- 2023 – XXXI International Award “St. Francis and Clare of Assisi” for Dialogue between Peoples and their cultures, promoted and organized by the International Franciscan Center for Studies for Dialogue between Peoples
- 2023 – “Regina Maria Sofia” Award by Tamburo Rosso. Gaeta.
Photo source: ANSA
