Enzo Avitabile

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Avitabile at the Rudolstadt Festival 2013

Enzo Avitabile (* 1. March 1955 in Naples as Vincenzo Avitabile ) is an Italian musician. After a longer soul phase, he turned mainly to world music in the 1990s .

Career

From a young age, Avitabile performed as a saxophonist in the bars of his hometown. He graduated in flute from the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella di Napoli . As a studio musician he could be heard on the saxophone on albums by Pino Daniele , Edoardo Bennato or Antonello Venditti before he released an album himself in 1982: Avitabile . This was followed at short intervals by Meglio Soul (1983), Correre in fretta (1984), SOS Brothers (1986), Alta tensione (1988), Stella dissidente (1990) and Enzo Avitabile (1991). With Easy , which also included a duet with Randy Crawford , the musician completed his first creative phase under the EMI label , which was heavily inspired by American soul and funk .

Now more devoted to world music , albums such as Addò (1996) or O-Issa (1999) were created. The latter also contained the song Mane a mane , which Avitabile had recorded together with Mory Kanté for UNICEF and whose proceeds were used to build schools for girls in Benin . In the 2000s, Avitabile finally concentrated entirely on his home region and began a collaboration with the traditional percussionist group Bottari di Portico , with whom he released the album Salvamm '' o munno ; Other well-known musicians such as Cheb Khaled and Manu Dibango were also involved . From 2006 he held a music ethnology workshop at the Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa .

Despite the many activities Avitabile also released other albums: Sacro Sud (2006), Festa, farina e forca (2007), Napoletana (2009) and Black Tarantella (2012). For the song Gerardo Nuvola 'e Polvere , written with Francesco Guccini , he was awarded the 2013 Amnesty International Italy Prize. In the same year he released the soundtrack for the documentary by Jonathan Demme with Enzo Avitabile Music Life . Lotto infinito followed in 2016 , with the participation of u. a. Francesco De Gregori , Renato Zero , Giorgia , Mannarino and Caparezza .

At the David di Donatello , the Nastro d'Argento and the Globo d'oro 2017 Avitabile received several awards for the soundtrack to the film Inseparable (Indivisibili) by Edoardo De Angelis . At the end of the year his participation in the Sanremo Festival 2018 was announced alongside Peppe Servillo . The duo reached twelfth place with Il coraggio di ogni giorno .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2012 Black tarantella IT30 (10 weeks)
IT
CNI Music
2016 Lotto infinito IT13 (9 weeks)
IT
Sony
2018 Pelle differente IT44 (3 weeks)
IT
Sony

More albums

  • Avitabile (1982)
  • Meglio Soul (1983, EMI)
  • Correre in fretta (1984, EMI)
  • SOS Brothers (1986, EMI)
  • Alta tensione (1988, EMI)
  • Stella dissidente (1990, EMI)
  • Enzo Avitabile (1991, EMI)
  • Easy (1994, EMI)
  • Addò (1996, CNI)
  • O-issa (1999, CNI)
  • Salvamm '' o munno (2004)
  • Sacro Sud (2006)
  • Festa Farina e Forca (2007)
  • Napoletana (2009)
  • Enzo Avitabile Music Life (2013, CNI Music)

Singles

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
1992 Io non ci resisto più
Enzo Avitabile 		IT22 (1 week)
IT

Guest Posts

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2017 La malaeducazione
gentleman 		IT38
gold
gold

(2 weeks)IT
Guè Pequeno feat. Enzo Avitabile
Sales: + 25,000

Web links

Commons : Enzo Avitabile  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerardo Nuvola 'e Polvere. In: Canzoni contro la guerra. Retrieved January 24, 2018 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Albums by Enzo Avitabile. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed January 25, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on January 25, 2018 (Italian, paid subscription access).
  4. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on January 25, 2018 (Italian, paid subscription access).
personal data
SURNAME Avitabile, Enzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Avitabile, Vincenzo (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples