Mogol

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Giulio Rapetti Mogol (* 17th August 1936 in Milan as Giulio Rapetti ), artist name Mogol [ moɡɔl ], is an Italian songwriter . He has written texts for over 1,500 songs, the best known of them with and for Lucio Battisti , and is considered the most popular and financially successful songwriter in Italy.

Career

After completing his training as an accountant , Giulio Rapetti began his poetry work alongside his father Mariano, who was the publisher of Edizioni Ricordi and himself a lyricist under the pseudonym Calibi . With the text for Non dire I Cry for Tony Renis , Mogol was represented at a music festival in Ancona in 1960. He also wrote the song Briciole di baci for Mina with Carlo Donida . The following year, the song Al di là by Betty Curtis and Luciano Tajoli , the text of which he had written, won the Sanremo Festival in 1961 . Emilio Pericoli also achieved sixth place on the American Billboard Hot 100 with the song in 1962 . The young lyricist received significant attention, he wrote lyrics for Mina and Tony Dallara , and in 1963 another song he wrote won the Sanremo Festival: Uno per tutte by Tony Renis. Mogol's career reached a temporary high point in 1964 with the success of the song Una lacrima sul viso by Bobby Solo , which had been presented at the Sanremo Festival in 1964 , and in 1965 another Mogol text won the festival with Solos Se piangi se ridi .

Mogol also worked as a song text translator, bringing some international hits to Italy. Songs for The Rokes , Equipe 84 and Dik Dik were also great successes . In 1965 he met the still unknown Lucio Battisti . The two began a long-term collaboration, initially mainly with songs for beat interpreters: I Ribelli , Dik Dik or Milena Cantù . Mogol convinced Battisti to embark on a solo career, and from 1969 the songs of the songwriting duo sung by Battisti became huge hits in Italy.

Together with his father Mariano, Sandro Colombini, Franco Dal Dello and Battisti, Mogol founded the independent record label Numero Uno . Battisti himself switched to Numero Uno in 1971 and released his most successful albums there, always in collaboration with Mogol. As a songwriter duo, they also stood behind most of the performers produced by Numero Uno. In addition, however, they continued to work for other performers. Together they wrote about 140 songs. The last album produced together was Una giornata uggiosa in 1980; after this Battisti left Numero Uno and worked with other songwriters.

After Battisti, Mogol first worked with Riccardo Cocciante , with whom he wrote two albums; With Cocciantes Se stiamo insieme , a Mogol text won the Sanremo Festival for the fourth time in 1991 . Other singers for whom he wrote lyrics were Gianni Bella , Mango , Gianni Morandi and Adriano Celentano . With Morandi, he also founded the charity soccer team Nazionale italiana cantanti in 1981 . In 1992 Mogol moved to Umbria , where he founded the non-profit organization CET (Centro Europeo di Toscolano) and subsequently headed it. The CET aims to offer young songwriters, musicians and singers the opportunity to improve their skills and to work with professionals, including Biagio Antonacci , Edoardo Bennato , Raf , Umberto Tozzi and Ornella Vanoni in addition to Mogol himself .

In 2008 the Premio Mogol was introduced, a prize awarded annually until 2011 for the best Italian lyrics of the year. The duo Audio 2 released the album MogolAudio2 in 2009 , for which Mogol had written all the lyrics; it was the only album in his career to be released under his name. In 2011, Mogol was one of the judges in the children's talent show Io canto on Canale 5 . With the book Le ciliegie e le amarene. Aforismi, pensieri e parole presented a collection of aphorisms to Mogol in 2012 . In 2015 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Komtur). His autobiography Il mio mestiere è vivere la vita was published in 2016.

Mogol's son Alfredo Rapetti Mogol also works as a songwriter under the pseudonym Cheope ( e.g. for Francesca Michielin's Nessun grado di separazione ). The name Mogol (Italian for Mogul ), originally just a pseudonym , has been an official part of the name since 2008.

Discography

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2009 MogolAudio2 IT10 (7 weeks)
IT
with audio 2

bibliography

Web links

  • Mogol in the Enciclopedia Treccani
  • Mogol at Rockol.it

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Mogol da Lucio Battisti a Bob Dylan, 80 anni vissuti tra pensieri e parole. In: TGcom24. Mediaset , August 17, 2016, accessed September 19, 2016 (Italian).
  2. ^ A b Giulio Rapetti (Mogol), biografia. In: Albo d'Oro. Musica e dischi , accessed on September 20, 2016 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Al di la, Emilio Pericoli. Billboard , accessed October 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Biografia di Mogol. In: Biographyonline.it. Retrieved September 20, 2016 (Italian).
  5. ↑ a b Mogòl. In: Treccani.it . Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana , accessed September 20, 2016 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Mogol. In: Cinquantamila.it. Giorgio Dell'Arti, June 4, 2014, accessed September 20, 2016 (Italian).
  7. ^ Dettaglio decorato. In: Quirinale.it. Presidenza della Repubblica , accessed September 19, 2016 (Italian).
  8. ^ Ora Giulio Rapetti è Mogol anche all'anagrafe. In: Rockol.it. July 24, 2008, accessed September 20, 2016 (Italian).
  9. ↑ MogolAudio2. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed September 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Mogol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rapetti Mogol, Giulio (real name); Rapetti, Giulio (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan