Giovanni Caccamo

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Giovanni Caccamo (born December 8, 1990 in Modica ) is an Italian singer and songwriter. It was discovered by Franco Battiato and is produced by Caterina Caselli . He gained greater fame in 2015 when he won the Sanremo Festival in the Newcomer category.

biography

Beginnings

Caccamo started singing at an early age and made his first public appearance in 2001 at the Zecchino d'Oro . In 2009 he oversaw the RAI telecast MusicGate . In 2010 he took part in the castings for X Factor , but left during the home visits phase . After smaller jobs at RAI, such as VJ , Caccamo applied for the newcomer category of the Sanremo Festival 2012, but did not make it into the final phase. In the summer of 2012 Franco Battiato became aware of the singer and Caccamo was able to perform as the opening act on Battiato's Apriti-Sesamo tour. He then released his first single L'indifferenza in 2013 and had various smaller appearances across Italy as well as in Fiorello TV shows .

success

October 2014 Caccamo signed a recording contract with the Italian label Sugarmusic of Caterina Caselli . In 2015 he took part in the Sanremo Festival and won the newcomer category with the song Ritornerò da te ; He also received the Critics 'Prize, the Emanuele Luzzati Prize and the Journalists' Prize. At the same time, Malika Ayane won third place and the critics' award in the main category with the song Adesso e qui (nostalgico presente) co-written by Caccamo .

In April he performed with Biagio Antonacci and in June he took part in the Coca-Cola Summer Festival . For the Pixar short film Lava , Caccamo worked with Malika Ayane as voice actor. Other own songs and songwriting for Deborah Iurato , Francesca Michielin and Emma Marrone followed . At the Sanremo Festival 2016 , the singer appeared for the first time in the main category, in a duet with Deborah Iurato; with Via da qui they reached third place. He then released the album Non siamo soli . At the Sanremo Festival 2018 , Caccamo presented Eterno , which reached tenth place and preceded the album of the same name.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2015 Qui per te IT29 (4 weeks)
IT
2016 Non siamo soli IT25 (4 weeks)
IT
2018 Eterno IT41 (2 weeks)
IT

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2015 Ritornerò da te
qui per te 		IT33 (3 weeks)
IT
2016 Via da qui
Non siamo soli 		IT35 (4 weeks)
IT
2018 Eterno
Eterno 		IT50 (1 week)
IT

More singles

  • Mezze verità (2012)
  • L'indifferenza (2013)
  • Qui per te (2015)
  • Oltre l'estasi (2015)
  • Distante dal tempo (2015)
  • Non siamo soli (2016)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Amelia Cartia: Giovanni Caccamo, il pupillo di Battiato: “E pensare che l'ho pedinato sulla spiaggia”. In: Repubblica.it . August 8, 2013, accessed January 29, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Alberto Puliafito: Sanremo social 2012 - I vincitori della prima fase. Passano anche talent e Miss Italia 2011. In: Tv Blog. Blogo.it, January 10, 2012, accessed January 29, 2016 .
  3. ^ Gianmarco Regaldi: Giovanni Caccamo: una nuova scommessa per Caterina Caselli. In: AllMusicItalia. Edizioni Molecola di Longo Massimiliano, October 25, 2014, accessed February 2, 2016 (Italian).
  4. ^ Festival di Sanremo 2016, Carlo Conti da Massimo Giletti svela i venti Big in gara. In: Repubblica.it . Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso , December 13, 2015, accessed February 2, 2016 .
  5. ^ Albums by Giovanni Caccamo. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed March 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Archivio Classifiche Top Digital. FIMI , accessed March 18, 2018 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Caccamo, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pop musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Modica