Ivano Fossati

Ivano Fossati 2012

Ivano Fossati (born September 21, 1951 in Genoa ) is an Italian cantautore (songwriter) and rock musician . He is a six-time winner of the Targa Tenco and has also made a name for himself as a songwriter for well-known Italian musicians and composer of film music .

In the course of his career, Fossati has worked with international and Italian musicians from various genres such as Trilok Gurtu , Tony Levin , Enrico Rava , Uña Ramos , Guy Barker , Nguyên Lê , Tiziano Ferro or Francesco De Gregori and translated song texts by Chico Buarque , Silvio Rodríguez , Djavan or Supertramp .

Career

As a child, Fossati came into contact with music at an early age and began playing the piano at the age of eight . He made his first experiences in the musical public with Italian beat bands , which at the time were increasingly turning to progressive rock . In 1971 he recorded the debut album Dolce Acqua with his own band Delirium . With the song Jesahel the group took part in the Sanremo Festival in 1972 and reached sixth place; as a result, the song became a number one hit and the album was also a huge success. But Fossati was interested in a solo career and quickly left the band.

He started his solo career in 1973 with the album Il grande mare che avremmo traversato , which was quickly followed by Poco prima dell'aurora (1974) and Good-Bye Indiana (1975). He then moved from the Fonit-Cetra label to RCA, where he made his debut in 1977 with La casa del serpente . In addition, he began to write music for plays and later also occasionally for films. The breakthrough came in 1979 with the Fossati still the rock influenced album La mia banda suona il rock from which the successful single of the same name came from. Mia Martini won the critic's award at the 1982 Sanremo Festival with the song E non finisce mica il cielo, written by Fossati , whereupon he was also in demand as a songwriter and music producer: he wrote songs for Mina , Patty Pravo , Fiorella Mannoia , Gianni Morandi , Ornella Vanoni , Anna Oxa , Loredana Bertè and many more.

With his following albums, the musician embarked on a genre search and increasingly turned away from rock. In 1981 Panama e dintorni was released , the last album on RCA. After moving to CBS, Fossati continued production with the albums Le città di frontiera (1983) and Ventilazione (1984). For the successor 700 giorni he was awarded the Targa Tenco in 1986 for album of the year. La pianta del tè (with the Targa Tenco award-winning song Questi posti davanti al mare ) ushered in a particularly successful creative phase in 1988, both artistically and commercially: These were the studio albums Discanto (1990), Lindbergh (1992) and Macramè (1996), all three awarded the Targa Tenco. In 1991 Fossati's first book Il giullare was published , and in 1993 a two-part live album.

In 1996 Fossati also worked closely with Fabrizio De André on his album Anime salve , which won a Targa Tenco just like the song Prinçesa . In 2000 he reported back with the album La disciplina della terra . The following year he published the instrumental album Not One Word on Sony Classical , and the book Carte da decifrare was also published . The next sung studio album Lampo viaggiatore barely missed the top of the chart in 2003, the following tour culminated in another live album in 2004. In 2004 he also released the charity single Mio fratello che guardi il mondo for the benefit of Amnesty International . With the album L'arcangelo Fossati reached number one in the Italian album charts for the first time in 2006.

After switching to EMI, he was able to directly continue the successful series with the album Musica moderna (2008). In the same year he contributed the song L'amore trasparente to the film Stilles Chaos by Antonello Grimaldi , which won both a David di Donatello and a Nastro d'Argento for best film song. The next studio album Decadancing reached the top of the chart again in 2011. At the same time as the album and the autobiography Tutto questo futuro were released , Fossati announced his withdrawal from the public. In 2012 one last live album was published, in 2014 the novel Tretrecinque . With the compilation Contemporaneo in 2016, after a long break, the musician gave another musical sign of life; Not until 2019 did he return to the studio and record the album Mina / Fossati with Mina .

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
year	title	IT	CH	Remarks
1972	Dolce acqua	IT4 (23 weeks) IT	-	Fonit, LPX 11 with delirium
1979	La mia banda suona il rock	IT8 (22 weeks) IT	-	RCA, PL 31471
1983	Le città di frontiera	IT25 (1 week) IT	-	CBS
1988	La pianta del tè	IT13 (10 weeks) IT	-	CBS
1990	Discanto	IT15 (5 weeks) IT	-	Epic
1992	Lindbergh (Lettere da sopra la pioggia)	IT9 (11 weeks) IT	-	Epic
1996	Macramè	IT3 (15 weeks) IT	-	Columbia
2000	La disciplina della Terra	IT3 (13 weeks) IT	-	Columbia
2001	Not One Word	IT7 (9 weeks) IT	-	Sony Classical
2003	Lampo viaggiatore	IT2 (21 weeks) IT	-	Columbia
2006	L'arcangelo	IT1 (14 weeks) IT	-	Sony BMG
2008	Musica moderna	IT1 (16 weeks) IT	-	Capitol / EMI
2011	Decadancing	IT1 gold (20 weeks)IT	-	Capitol / EMI sales: + 30,000
2019	Mina Fossati	IT2 (... weeks) IT	CH26 (3 weeks) CH	PDU / Sony with Mina

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

1973 - Il grande mare che avremmo traversato (Fonit, LPX 21)
1974 - Poco prima dell'aurora (with Oscar Prudente ; Fonit, LPX 24)
1975 - Good-Bye Indiana (Fonit, LPX 38)
1977 - La casa del serpente (RCA, PL 31301)
1981 - Panama e dintorni (RCA, PL 31570)
1984 - Ventilazione (CBS)
1986 - 700 Giorni (CBS)

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	title	IT	Remarks
1993	Dal vivo vol. 1 / Buontempo	IT14 (8 weeks) IT	Epic
1993	Dal vivo vol. 2 / Carte da decifrare	IT8 (7 weeks) IT	Epic
2004	Tour acustico, dal vivo vol. 3	IT9 (15 weeks) IT	Columbia / Sony
2012	Dopo tutto Live	IT32 (8 weeks) IT	EMI

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	title	IT	Remarks
1998	Time and Silence (Canzoni a raccolta)	IT14 (4 weeks) IT	Columbia
2006	Ho sognato una strada	IT7 (14 weeks) IT	Sony BMG
2016	Contemporaneo	IT30 (17 weeks) IT	Sony

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
year	Title album	IT	Remarks
1972	Jesahel Dolce acqua	IT1 (16 weeks) IT	B-side: King's Road with delirium
1972	Haum! Dolce acqua	IT10 (16 weeks) IT	B-side: Movimento II: Dubbio with delirium
1979	La mia banda suona il rock La mia banda suona il rock	IT12 gold (19 weeks)IT	B-side: … E di nuovo cambio casa Sales: + 25,000
2004	Mio fratello che guardi il mondo	IT4 (13 weeks) IT
2013	Carte da decifrare	IT36 (1 week) IT

More singles

1971 - Canto di Osanna / Deliriana (with delirium)
1972 - Dolce acqua / Favola o storia del lago di Kriss (with delirium)
1972 - Treno / È l'ora (with delirium)
1973 - Il grande mare che avremmo traversato / All'ultimo amico
1973 - È l'aurora / L'Africa (with Oscar Prudente )
1974 - Tema del lupo / Apri le braccia (with Oscar Prudente)
1974 - Cane di strada / Concerto di plenilunio in un castello di Stoccarda
1975 - Goodbye Indiana
1977 - Matto / La casa del serpente
1981 - Panama / J'adore Venise
1981 - La signora cantava il blues / Stazione
1983 - La musica che gira intorno / I ragazzi cattivi
1983 - Tico Palabra / Quante estati, quanti inverni
1988 - Questi posti davanti al mare (with Fabrizio De André and Francesco De Gregori )
1988 - Terra dove andare / L'uomo coi capelli da ragazzo
1990 - Lusitania / Panama / La musica che gira intorno
1992 - La canzone popolare / Italiani d'Argentina / Terra dove andare / Una notte in Italia

Web links

Official website (Italian)
Ivano Fossati at Rockol.it (Italian)
Ivano Fossati at Treccani.it (Italian)
Ivano Fossati at Allmusic (English)

supporting documents

↑ ^a ^b ^c
Chart sources (albums):
- Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Album 1964-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-470500-2 , pp. 173 .
- Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 109 .
- Albums by Ivano Fossati. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed November 28, 2019 .
^ Discography Mina & Ivano Fossati. In: hitparade.ch. Hung Medien , accessed December 4, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Certificazioni. FIMI, accessed November 27, 2019 (Italian).
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Chart sources (singles):
- Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Singoli 1960-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-326490-6 , pp. 183, 216 .
- Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 94 .
- Archivio classifiche Top Singoli. FIMI , accessed November 28, 2019 (Italian).

personal data
SURNAME	Fossati, Ivano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Cantautore (songwriter) and rock musician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Genoa

[Albumcharts-1] Chart sources (albums):

Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Album 1964-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-470500-2 , pp. 173 .

Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 109 .

Albums by Ivano Fossati. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed November 28, 2019 .

[2] Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Album 1964-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-470500-2 , pp. 173 .

[3] Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 109 .

[4] Albums by Ivano Fossati. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed November 28, 2019 .

[2] Discography Mina & Ivano Fossati. In: hitparade.ch. Hung Medien , accessed December 4, 2019 .

[certificazioni-3] Certificazioni. FIMI, accessed November 27, 2019 (Italian).

[4] Chart sources (singles):

Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Singoli 1960-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-326490-6 , pp. 183, 216 .

Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 94 .

Archivio classifiche Top Singoli. FIMI , accessed November 28, 2019 (Italian).

[8] Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Singoli 1960-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-326490-6 , pp. 183, 216 .

[9] Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 94 .

[10] Archivio classifiche Top Singoli. FIMI , accessed November 28, 2019 (Italian).