Neri by Caso

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Neri by Caso
General information
origin Salerno , Italy
Genre (s) Pop , a cappella , Doo Wop
founding 1994
Current occupation
Ciro Caravano
Gonzalo Caravano
Domenico Pablo "Mimì" Caravano
Mario Crescenzo
Massimo De Divitiis (1995–2000, from 2002)
Daniele Blaquier (from 2015)
former members
Diego Caravano (1995–2014)
Joe Barbieri (2001–2002)
Moris Pradella (2014–2015)

Neri per Caso is an Italian a cappella sextet from Salerno .

history

The group, consisting of Massimo Devitiis, Mario Crescenzo, the brothers Ciro and Diego Caravano and the cousins ​​of the latter two, Mimì and Gonzalo Caravano, were discovered in 1994 by Claudio Mattone. The vocal sextet had discovered the American Doo Wop of the 1950s. The group entered the 1995 Sanremo Festival with the song Le ragazze and won the newcomer category. The debut album included a cappella versions of well-known Italian songs, for example by Zucchero , Pino Daniele , Jovanotti and Edoardo Bennato . The sextet returned to Sanremo in 1996 and, with Mai più sola, came fifth in the main category.

After the second album Strumenti , the Neri recorded a song for the Italian version of the soundtrack to The Hunchback of Notre Dame . At the end of 1996 the Christmas album … And So This Is Christmas was released , 1997 the third regular album Neri per Caso . After a first artistic break, Angelo blu followed in 2000 , the fourth album. Several compilations appeared between 2001 and 2007, Uno Indonesia , La raccolta , Made in Italy and Solo grandi successi .

The sextet only returned to the studio in 2007 and released the album Angoli diversi in 2008 , which again contained a number of cover versions that were sung together with the original artists ( Luca Carboni , Pooh , Lucio Dalla , Samuele Bersani or Mario Biondi ). Two years later the album Donne followed , which was based on the same concept, but exclusively with female singers ( Loredana Bertè , Mia Martini , Noemi , Giusy Ferreri or Dolcenera ). In 2014 Diego Caravano left the formation after 20 years and was initially replaced by Moris Pradella, from 2015 by Daniele Blaquier. The first album without Caravano was released in 2016 with Neri per Caso 2.0 .

At the Sanremo Festival 2018 , the group performed on the fourth evening together with Elio e le Storie Tese .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
1995 Le ragazze IT1 (31 weeks)
IT
Easy Records
1996 Strumenti IT10 (10 weeks)
IT
Easy Records
… And So This Is Christmas IT19 (6 weeks)
IT
Easy Records
1997 Neri by Caso IT36 (6 weeks)
IT
EMI
2008 Angoli diversi IT7 (31 weeks)
IT
Sony BMG
... And So This Is Christmas 2008 IT39 (5 weeks)
IT
Sony BMG
2010 Donne IT31 (4 weeks)
IT
Sony
2016 Neri per Caso 2.0 IT75 (1 week)
IT
Sony
  • Angelo blu (2000; EMI)
  • Uno Indonesia (2001; EMI)
  • La raccolta (2002; EMI)
  • Made in Italy (2004; EMI)
  • Solo grandi successi (2007; EMI)

Singles (selection)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2008 What a Fool Believes
Angoli diversi 		IT11 (10 weeks)
IT
feat. Mario Biondi

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Chart sources (albums):
  2. ↑ Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 127 .