Renzo Arbore

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Renzo Arbore 1995: portrait - Augusto De Luca

Renzo Arbore (actually Lorenzo Giovanni Maria Antonio Domenico Arbore ; born June 24, 1937 in Foggia ) is an Italian musician , presenter , actor , screenwriter and film director .

Life

Arbore began performing as a jazz clarinetist in clubs after moving to Naples early on . Soon, however, he became known nationwide as a radio announcer when he could be heard alongside Gianni Boncompagni in programs such as Bandiera gialla (1965), Per voi giovani (1967) and Alto gradimento (1970), which were characterized by irony and satire. In the 1969/70 season he also made his debut in Speciale per voi , a television version of the show in which u. a. current music was also discussed. In 1972 he first recorded a record as a clarinetist with the NU Orleans Rubbish Band. He celebrated great success on television again a few years later, when he presented sequences that were partly surrealistic in the format L'altra Domenica, which was broadcast between 1976 and 1979 and in which a large number of young actors such as Mario Marenco , Isabella Rossellini and Roberto Benigni took part.

For the cinema, in 1980 with Il pap'occhio and three years later with FFSS, wild, surreal comedies were created, which gave numerous colleagues and friends the opportunity to appear and which took place in Naples. Occasionally, Arbore was seen as an actor himself. In 1981 he appeared for the first time as a singer in the title song of the program Telepatria International , in the same year he released the album Ora o mai più ovvero cantautore da grande . As part of the television program Quelli della notte , two albums appeared in 1985, on which Arbore could be heard together with the New Pathetic “Elastic” Orchestra, which became big sellers. In 1986 Arbore achieved second place at the Sanremo Festival with the song Il clarinetto , followed by the equally successful album Prima che sia troppo tardi .

Renzo Arbore and Mario Trevi (2017)

The album for the music show Indietro tutta! , Discao Meravigliao from 1988, brought Arbore a number one spot in the Italian album charts; Even the single Sì, la vita è tutta un quiz from it just missed the top position. After the publication of Sanremix (1990), Arbore founded the Orchestra Italiana in 1991 , which plays Neapolitan music in large cast . The big band made its debut at the Montreux Jazz Festival and immediately reached the top of the Italian charts with their first album, Napoli punto ea capo (1992). In the following years another four successful albums followed, also accompanied by international tours. a. Latin American influences in the orchestra's repertoire.

In the 2000s Arbore formed new groups: in 2002 he released an album with the Swing Maniacs , in 2005 one with the Arborigeni . At the same time he remained active with the Orchestra Italiana, with which he performed in Carnegie Hall in New York in 2006 , which resulted in a double live album. Other albums with different groups followed.

As early as 1992, Arbore was recorded with the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in the Grand Officer class .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
1985 Quelli della notte IT3 (20 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra, LPX 143
with New Pathetic “Elastic” Orchestra
Quelli della notte n.2: meglio dal vivo che dal morto IT11 (9 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra, LPX 146
with New Pathetic “Elastic” Orchestra
1986 Prima che sia troppo tardi IT6 (10 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra / Dischi Ricordi, STVL 6350
1988 Discao meravigliao IT1 (14 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra, STLP 197
with Nino Frassica and Paola Cortellesi
1992 Napoli punto ea capo IT1 (23 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra, TLPX 336
with L'Orchestra Italiana
1993 Napoli. Due punti & a capo IT3 (13 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra, TCDL 367
with L'Orchestra Italiana
1995 Napoli: punto esclamativo! “Internescional uei!” IT5 (23 weeks)
IT
Fonit Cetra, TCDL 392
with L'Orchestra Italiana
1996 Pecché now ce ne jammo in America? IT21 (10 weeks)
IT
Ricordi, TCDMRL 430222
with L'Orchestra Italiana
1998 Sud (s) IT15 (4 weeks)
IT
BMG Ricordi
with L'Orchestra Italiana
2002 Tonite! Renzo Swing! IT5 (25 weeks)
IT
CGD
with swing maniacs
2005 Vintage! ... ma non li dimostra IT4 (21 weeks)
IT
Atlantic
with Arborigeni
2006 At Carnegie Hall New York IT9
gold
gold

(18 weeks)IT
Atlantic
with L'Orchestra Italiana
Sales: + 25,000; IT 2014 gold
2007 Dicottanni di… “canzoni napoletane” (… quelle belle) IT22nd
gold
gold

(17 weeks)IT
Gazebo Giallo / Warner
with L'Orchestra Italiana
Sales: + 25,000; IT 2015 gold
2013 ... my American way! IT15 (12 weeks)
IT
Gazebo Giallo / Sony
with The Arboriginals
2014 ... e pensare che dovevo fare il dentista ... IT22 (9 weeks)
IT
Gazebo Giallo / Sony
Renzo Arbore & Friends
2017 Arbore Plus IT25 (7 weeks)
IT
Sony

More albums

  • 1981 - Il pap'occhio (RCA, BL 31563)
  • 1981 - Ora o mai più ovvero cantautore da grande (Dischi Ricordi, SMRL 6284)
  • 1983 - FFSS cioè che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene? (Mammouth, ZPGMU 33444; with Roberto Benigni and Pietra Montecorvino )
  • 1985 - Cari amici vicini e lontani (Fonit Cetra, LPX 142; with I Senza Vergogna and Gemelle Nete)
  • 1987 - Viaggiare oh ... oh ...! (Fonit Cetra, ALP 2019; with Barilla Boogie Band)
  • 1990 - Sanremix (Fonit Cetra, TLPX 250; with Lino Banfi , Stefano Palatresi and I Campagnoli Belli)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
1988 Sì, la vita è tutta un quiz
Discao Meravigliao 		IT2 (16 weeks)
IT
Dischi Ricordi, SRL 11068
B-side: Vengo dopo il tiggì
  • 1972 - She Was Not an Angel / The Stage Boy (Tickle, TSP 1307) - with NU Orleans Rubbish Band
  • 1986 - Playback / Tu vecchia mutanda, tu (Fonit Cetra, JB 315)
  • 1989 - Cacao meravigliao / Cocco rock (Fonit Cetra, DLP632)

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Claudio Cavallaro: Renzo Arbore, ovvero quello della musica. Coniglio Editore, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-8860630957 .
  • Gianni Garrucciu: Renzo Arbore, vita, opere e (soprattutto) miracoli. Rai Eri, Rome 2013, ISBN 978-8839715814 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano , I registi, Gremese 2002, pp. 30/31.
  2. ↑ Arbore dott. Renzo. In: Quirinale.it. Presidenza della Repubblica , accessed August 18, 2018 (Italian).
  3. ↑ a b chart sources:
  4. ↑ a b Certificazioni, Renzo Arbore. FIMI, accessed August 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Arbore, Renzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arbore, Lorenzo Giovanni Maria Antonio Domenico (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musician, presenter, actor, screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Foggia