Loredana Bertè

Bertè and Fiorella Mannoia at the 2016 Wind Music Awards

Loredana Bertè [loreˈdaːna berˈtɛ] (born September 20, 1950 in Bagnara Calabra ) is an Italian singer . Not least because of her participation in ten editions of the Sanremo Festival , she gained notoriety . She is credited with introducing various stylistic innovations into Italian pop music, such as reggae and rap .

biography

Bertè was born the third of four daughters in the province of Reggio Calabria and spent her childhood in Porto Recanati . Together with her sister Domenica , she moved to Rome in 1965 , where she gained her first musical experience as a dancer in the Piper Club disco . There she met the (then unknown) musician Renato Zero , with whom she worked from now on: Both performed as dancers with Rita Pavone and as part of Don Lurio's dance group , among others. a. even at major events such as Partitissima or Canzonissima . With Zero, she also appeared as a body painter . In the musical comedy Ciao Rudy she later appeared on the side of Paola Borboni ; This was followed by a scandalous nude appearance in the musical Hair , as a result of which Bertè, also inspired by the composer Bill Conti , finally turned to music.

Her debut album Streaking was released in 1974 and caused scandals again due to the provocative record cover and daring lyrics. The singer had her first success in 1975 with the single Sei bellissima . The second album Normale o super followed in 1976, at the same time Bertè had appearances in several films. At the end of the 1970s she was able to enter the album charts for the first time, which was mainly due to the success of the single E la luna bussò (1979) written by Ivano Fossati . From then on, Fossati also replaced Mario Lavezzi , her long-time producer. Bertès's fame rose again with her participation in the 1982 Festival Bar competition, where she won with the song Non sono una signora . Other well-known songs followed: Il mare d'inverno (on jazz ) by Enrico Ruggeri , Ragazzo mio (on savoir faire ) by Luigi Tenco and Acqua (on Carioca ) by Djavan . When she took part in the Sanremo Festival in 1986 , the singer presented the song Re by Mango . Your appearance caused another scandal. Already in 1988 she returned with the song Io by Tony Cicco back to the festival.

In 1989, after separating from Roberto Berger in 1987, with whom she had been married for four years, Bertè married the Swedish tennis player Björn Borg , after which she briefly withdrew from music. But in 1992 she separated again by Borg and returned in 1993 to the Sanremo Music Festival, where she and her sister Mia Martini and the song Stiamo come stiamo took. On the following album Ufficialmente dispersi Bertè appeared for the first time as a lyricist of her songs. After another participation in the festival with Amici non ne ho , she brought out the live album Bertex - Ingresso Libero , in which she again worked with her sister and Renato Zero. The year 1995 brought another Sanremo participation (with Angeli & angeli ) and the compilation Ufficialmente ritrovati with it, but it also had a hard stroke of fate for the singer: the death of Mia Martini.

Bertès next album Un pettirosso da combattimento (1997), which was preceded by a participation in Sanremo , was largely dedicated to her deceased sister. The following year her second live album, Decisamente Loredana , was released, again in collaboration with Renato Zero. After a long break, during which the singer once again took part in the Sanremo Festival ( 2002 with the song Dimmi che mi ami ) and the reality show Music Farm , the next studio album Babybertè was not released until 2005. With second place it is her biggest chart success so far. The album also resulted in a special and a live edition. After public disputes with the organizers of the Sanremo Festival, she returned in 2008 with the song Musica e parole , which, however, was disqualified at the festival because it turned out to be an illegal cover . This was followed by the compilation Bertilation and the EP Lola & Angiolina Project together with Ivana Spagna .

Her next participation in the Sanremo Festival was in 2012 in a duet with Gigi D'Alessio : Her song Respirare reached fourth place in the final. On the fourth evening of the festival, she also performed with Nina Hagen . In the 14th edition of the casting show Amici di Maria De Filippi (2014/2015) Bertè acted as a juror. In November 2015, the singer's first autobiography was published under the title Traslocando . 2017 she worked with J-Ax & Fedez their album Comunisti col Rolex together in 2018 she was the summer hit Non ti dico no of Boomdabash involved. In the same year her next album LiBertè was released . At the Sanremo Festival 2019 she presented the song Cosa ti aspetti da me and again achieved fourth place.

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1979	Bandabertè	IT12 (9 weeks) IT	First published: May 29, 1979
1980	Bertè	IT14 (11 weeks) IT	First published: 1980
1981	Made in Italy	IT23 (1 week) IT	First published: April 1981
1982	Traslocando	IT7 (15 weeks) IT	First published: May 2019
1983	Lorinedita	IT24 (1 week) IT	First published: June 17, 1983
	jazz	IT5 (12 weeks) IT	First published: October 1983
1984	Savoir faire	IT18 (8 weeks) IT	First published: July 1984
1985	Carioca	IT17 (8 weeks) IT	First published: June 1985
1988	Io	IT25 (1 week) IT	First published: May 1988
1997	Un pettirosso da combattimento	IT22 (1 week) IT	First published: 1997
2005	Babybertè	IT2 (11 weeks) IT	First published: September 9, 2005
2006	Babybertè (Special Edition)	IT32 (3 weeks) IT	First published: 2006
2016	Amici non ne ho… ma amiche si!	IT2 (18 weeks) IT
2018	LiBerté	IT4 (19 weeks) IT	First published: September 28, 2018

• 1974: streaking
• 1976: Normal o great
• 1977: TIR
• 1993: Ufficialmente dispersi

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
1998	Decisamente Loredana	IT17 (3 weeks) IT	First published: September 20, 1998
2007	Babybertè Live	IT29 (3 weeks) IT	First published: March 2nd, 2007
2008	Bertilation	IT20 (3 weeks) IT

• 1994: Bertex - Ingresso libero

Compilations (selection)

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		IT
2004	Be bellissima	IT46 (5 weeks) IT
2005	Le più belle canzoni di Loredana Bertè	IT97 (1 week) IT
2006	Tutto Bertè	IT29 (7 weeks) IT
2009	Io sì! Bertè	IT99 (1 week) IT

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		IT	CH
1975	Be bellissima normal o super	IT10 gold (8 weeks)IT	-	Sales: + 25,000; IT 2019 gold
1976	Meglio libera Normale o great	IT24 (2 weeks) IT	-
1977	Fiabe	IT23 (3 weeks) IT	-
1978	Dedicato Bandabertè	IT5 (20 weeks) IT	-
1979	E la luna bussò Bandabertè	IT9 (20 weeks) IT	-	also reached number 12 in the Swedish charts in 1980 (7 weeks)
1980	In alto mare Bertè	IT11 (10 weeks) IT	-
1982	Not sono una signora Traslocando	IT4th gold (19 weeks)IT	-	Sales: + 25,000; IT 2017 gold
	Per i tuoi tatting Traslocando	IT7 (10 weeks) IT	-
1985	Acqua Carioca	IT13 (10 weeks) IT	-
1994	Amici non ne ho Bertex - Ingresso libero	IT19 (2 weeks) IT	-
2002	Dimmi che mi ami	IT7 (6 weeks) IT	-	EP with four titles
2006	Strade di fuoco Babybertè	IT3 (9 weeks) IT	-
2008	Musica e parole Bertilation	IT20 (2 weeks) IT	-
2012	Ma quale musica leggera	IT60 (2 weeks) IT	-	with Edoardo Bennato
2019	Cosa ti aspetti da me	IT6th platinum (12 weeks)IT	CH64 (1 week) CH	Sales: + 50,000
	Tequila e San Miguel	IT88 (1 week) IT	-

More singles

• Volevi un amore grande (1974)
• Grida (1997)
• Decisamente Loredana (1977)
• Movie (1981)
• Re (1986)
• Io (1988)
• In questa città (1991)
• Stiamo come stiamo (1993)
• Portami con te (1998)
• Sarà perché ti amo (chi se ne frega!) (2004; with Ricchi e Poveri )

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		IT	CH
2012	Respirare Chiaro	IT11 (7 weeks) IT	-	Gigi D'Alessio feat. Loredana Bertè
2017	Allergia Comunisti col Rolex	IT66 (2 weeks) IT	-	J-Ax & Fedez feat. Loredana Bertè
2018	Non ti dico no Barracuda	IT25th × 2 Double platinum (23 weeks)IT	-	Boomdabash feat. Loredana Bertè Sales: + 100,000
2019	Senza pensieri	IT22nd platinum (16 weeks)IT	-	Fabio Rovazzi feat. Loredana Bertè & J-Ax sales: + 50,000

Filmography

• 1970: Basta guardarla
• 1970: Quelli belli ... siamo noi
• 1975: Orfeo 9 (TV movie)
• 1975: Attenti al buffone
• 1976: The little one with the big hammer (Il padrone e l'operaio)
• 1976: Movie Rush - La febbre del cinema
• 1977: Bambole, non c'è una lira! (TV series)

bibliography

• Loredana Bertè: Traslocando . Rizzoli , Milan 2015, ISBN 978-88-17-08427-7 .

Web links

• Loredana Bertè in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website (Italian)

supporting documents

1. ^ ^{A b} Evan C. Gutierrez: Loredana Bertè, Biography. In: Allmusic . Retrieved November 28, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Loredana Berté. In: Albo d'Oro. Musica e dischi , accessed November 28, 2015 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Bertè, Loredana. In: Enciclopedie on line. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome. Retrieved November 28, 2015.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Biografia di Loredana Berté. In: Rockol.it. January 16, 2012, accessed November 28, 2015 (Italian). 
5. ↑ Loredana Bertè si separa e denuncia il marito . In: La Repubblica . Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso , July 1, 1987, p. 18 ( online article [accessed November 28, 2015]).
6. ^ Marisa Fumagalli, Alonzo Francesco Saverio: Bertè censurata in Svezia . In: Corriere della Sera . RCS MediaGroup , January 30, 1993, p. 15 ( online article [accessed November 28, 2015]). Online article ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Laffranchi Andrea: Bertè eliminata (ma Cantera). Il suo brano "clonato" dall'88 . In: Corriere della Sera . RCS MediaGroup, February 28, 2008, p. 47 ( online article [accessed November 28, 2015]).
8. ↑ Marinella Venegoni: Berté: “La nuova Loredana non urla è rock, ma ha la frangetta bon ton”. In: LaStampa.it . April 20, 2015, accessed November 28, 2015 (Italian). 
9. ↑ Traslocando. In: Rizzoli.eu. RCS Libri, accessed November 28, 2015 (Italian). 
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources (albums):
    • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on November 27, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
    • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 77 f .
    • Albums by Loredana Bertè. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed December 13, 2019 . 
11. ↑ ^{a b} chart sources (singles):
    • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi, accessed on November 27, 2015 (Italian, paid subscription access). 
    • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu , 2013, p. 70 .
    • Archivio classifiche Top Singoli. FIMI, accessed May 14, 2018 (Italian). 
    • Switzerland
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} award archive. FIMI, accessed November 6, 2017 (Italian). 
13. ^ Loredana Bertè - E la luna bussò. In: Swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed November 27, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Melody Laurino: Ma quale musica leggera di Loredana Berté, nuovo singolo. (No longer available online.) In: Airdave.it. May 31, 2012, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; Retrieved November 28, 2015 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.