This is an event organized by Fiabamusic and Sideout, with the support of the Municipality of Arco and Cassa Rurale
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The storyteller who for forty years has immortalized today’s world, made up of good and bad, with his songs is back; mocking the powerful, praising the human strength of common people, without ever forgetting the most classic of the inspiring feelings of every Artist: Love.
Edoardo Bennato returns live with a concert with a high Rock&Blues content proposing his most famous songs and a selection of new songs taken from the latest album «Non c’è».
Two hours of music, engaging videos and interaction with the public, for an event to be experienced from start to finish.
An emotional experience with songs and melodies that have become part of our collective imagination that will be difficult to resist; to rediscover, through the power of music, vibrations and emotions that are good for the soul.
Joining him on stage will be BeBand, the historic formation that has been following him for years now.
Short biography
Italian musician and singer-songwriter from Bagnoli, a suburb of Naples.
After a musical experience spent in London he began performing as a one-man-band simultaneously playing the guitar, the kazoo and the pedal drum, producing his own original musical trend directly influenced by the great names of blues and rock – such as Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles and Elvis Presley – and contaminated by accents typical of Mediterranean music.
His debut album is Don’t let your arms fall, released in 1973; in 1977 with the album Burattino senza fili he became the first Italian artist to create video clips and later, thanks to a triumphal tour around Italy, he became the first national singer to reach 80 thousand spectators in the famous stadium of San Siro in Milan; an event that will lead him to cross the Italian borders with his first European tour.
Among the countless successes we remember in this short biography the official song of the 1990 World Football Championships Un’estate italiana, sung together with Gianna Nannini; song that remained in the hit parades for 4 months.
In 2007 he signed the soundtrack of the theatrical musical Peter Pan in the Italian version; an incredible success with the public and critics which led the singer-songwriter to produce an English version of the famous songs from the album Sono solo canzonette, thus planning a new theatrical version in English.
In 2010, two recordings were released: a completely new LP entitled Le vie del rock sono infinite, in which it is possible to find the artist’s unpredictability and acute observational gaze, and MTV Storytellers, a collection of the best-known hits but also of new songs re-arranged and sung together with artists such as Morgan, Roy Paci, Giuliano Palma & The Bluebeaters, Finley.
At the end of October 2015 Pronti a salpare was released, 14 unreleased songs that manage to photograph the society in which we live with sarcasm and irony. The song that gives the album its title won the Amnesty International award in 2016.
Today, with 28 albums under his belt, Edoardo Bennato is still in full creative phase. In 2020, in full lockdown, he and his brother Eugenio created the song La realita non essere questo, the proceeds of which went entirely to the Azienda Ospedaliera dei Colli di Napoli.
In the same year, in November, his latest album «Non c’è» was released, with eight unreleased songs and fourteen repertoire songs, which made Edoardo Bennato one of the greatest artists of our music.
In 2023, in the evening dedicated to the covers of the 73rd edition of the Sanremo Festival, Edoardo Bennato performed together with Leo Gassmann in a medley of his songs which included the song «A cosa serving la war», taken from the album L’ western man (2003), and the timeless classics «L’isola che non c’è» and «Il Rock del Capitano Hook», taken from the album «Sono solo canzonette», published in 1980 and remained in the collective memory of Italians.
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