Riccardo Cocciante

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Riccardo Cocciante 1998

Riccardo Vincent Cocciante ([ koˈtʃante ]; born February 20, 1946 in Saigon , French Indochina ), also Richard Cocciante , is an Italian singer and composer . Active as a singer since the 1970s, he celebrated great success in Italy and won the Sanremo Festival in 1991 ; from 1998 he also made a name for himself as a musical composer based in France .

Career

At the age of eleven, Cocciante moved to Rome with his Italian father and French mother , where he received his artistic training. Nevertheless, thanks to his mother, he also remained connected to French culture, which was to shape his entire work. In addition to Italy , he also lived for a while in the USA , France and, most recently, Ireland . He made his debut in 1972 with the album Mu , a kind of rock opera . Poesia followed in 1973, and in 1974 Cocciante first became widely known with Anima and especially the singles Bella senz'anima and Quando finisce un amore . The album was released in 1976 for the English-speaking market and the single When Love Has Gone Away could enter the Billboard Hot 100 . In the same year he also worked with his interpretation of the Beatles song Michelle on the double album for the film All This and World War II .

After the no less successful album L'alba (1975), Cocciante had her final breakthrough with the song Margherita (included on Concerto per Margherita ) in 1976. However, he was only able to achieve this success again in 1980 with the song (and album of the same name) Cervo a primavera , written in collaboration with Mogol . In the meantime he had also been able to establish himself musically in France. In 1982 Cocciante was released , in 1983 the experimental album Sincerità , which also received international attention, and in 1985 Il mare dei papaveri , on which he sang a duet with Mina in the song Questione di feeling . The extensive tour in 1986 found its way into a double live album.

The next studio album was La grande avventura in 1987, followed again by a tour and a live album. Then Cocciante withdrew for a while and spent u. a. Time in the usa. In 1991 he entered the Sanremo Festival and won with the song Se stiamo insieme (duet with Sarah Jane Morris ). The song found its way into his next studio album, Cocciante , which was to be his last in collaboration with Mogol. In the following years he published albums such as Eventi e mutamenti (1993), Un uomo felice (1994; with duets with a.o. Mina, Mietta , Cecilia Gasdia and Tosca ) and Innamorato (1997) as well as the compilation Il mio nome è Riccardo (1994) and the live album Istantanea (1998). After isolated successes in the Netherlands , the singer became better known there in the mid-1990s through several successful cover versions by Marco Borsato .

At the side of Plácido Domingo , Sarah Brightman and Helmut Lotti , Cocciante took part in Christmas in Vienna in 1997 , from which the album Christmas in Vienna V emerged . In 1998 he realized his dream of composing a musical : Together with Luc Plamondon he created Notre Dame de Paris (after Victor Hugo ), which became an internationally acclaimed success. In 1999 he sang Lei non vede me for the film Asterix and Obelix against Caesar ; In the same year, at the express request of Mayor Raymond Barre, he composed the official anthem of the city of Lyon together with Jean-Jacques Goldman . In the meantime, at home he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grand Officer). At the end of 2002 his second musical, Le Petit Prince , was released in France , based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince .

In 2005, Cocciante released the four-language album Songs and announced another musical project based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet . Giulietta e Romeo was finally premiered in the Colosseum in Rome. On February 28, 2006, Riccardo Cocciante was awarded the City of Sanremo Prize in recognition of his life's work as part of the Sanremo Festival . The compilation Sulle labbra e nel pensiero was released in 2013 , he also worked as a coach on the first edition of the talent show The Voice of Italy and was able to lead “his” candidate Elhaida Dani to victory.

Discography

Riccardo Cocciante can point that not only works in a rich musical production of Italian language has, but also often published in parallel with this, but also entirely separate works in French , Spanish and English language.

Albums

Studio albums

  • Mu (1972; RCA DPSL 10549)
  • Poesia (1973; RCA DPSL 10578)
year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT FR FR MOVE BE W BEF BE F NL NL
1974 Anima IT1 (17 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA TPL 1-1060
1975 L'alba IT1 (24 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA TPL 1-1167
1976 Concerto per Margherita IT1 (23 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA TPL 1-1220
2000 in the Edition Dischi d'oro place 66 (2 weeks) in the FIMI charts
1978 Riccardo Cocciante IT2 (27 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA PL 31332
1979 ... E io canto IT3 (22 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA PL 31421
1980 Cervo a primavera IT3 (29 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA PL 31546
1982 Cocciante IT2 (37 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
RCA PL 31623
1983 Sincerità IT3 (17 weeks)
IT 		- - - NL19 (6 weeks)
NL
Virgin V 2294
1985 Il mare dei papaveri IT1 (23 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Virgin V 2336
1987 La grande avventura IT1 (19 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Virgin PRC 88
1991 Cocciante IT2 (21 weeks)
IT 		- - - NL76 (5 weeks)
NL
Virgin PRC 91
1993 Eventi e mutamenti / Empreinte IT6 (13 weeks)
IT 		FR11 (10 weeks)
FR 		- - -
Virgin
1994 Un uomo felice IT9 (16 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Virgin
1996 Innamorato / L'instant present IT8 (22 weeks)
IT 		- BE W18 (9 weeks)
BE W 		- NL31 (10 weeks)
NL
Columbia / Sony
1998 Christmas in Vienna V. - - BE W27 (6 weeks)
BE W 		BE F42 (5 weeks)
BE F 		NL56 (3 weeks)
NL
with Plácido Domingo , Sarah Brightman and Helmut Lotti
Columbia / Sony
2001 Notre Dame de Paris IT44 (1 week)
IT 		- - - -
Sony
2005 Songs IT4 (11 weeks)
IT 		FR88 (10 weeks)
FR 		BE W80 (3 weeks)
BE W 		- -
Sony BMG
2009 Notre Dame de Paris (versione italiana) IT84 (1 week)
IT 		- - - -
Sony

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Live albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT FR FR MOVE BE W BEF BE F NL NL
1986 Quando si vuole bene IT6 (15 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Virgin VD 2515
1988 Viva! IT17 (5 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Virgin VFLP 1001
1998 Istantanea Tour 98 IT27 (4 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Columbia / Sony

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Compilations (selection)

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT FR FR MOVE BE W BEF BE F NL NL
1983 I grandi successi di Riccardo Cocciante IT10 (11 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Siglaquattro
1994 Il mio nome è Riccardo IT15 (7 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
Virgin
1995 Richard Cocciante - - BE W3
platinum
platinum

(45 weeks)BE W 		- -
Tristar / Sony
sales: + 50,000
L'amore - - - - NL92 (6 weeks)
NL
1997 Le origini IT29 (2 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
1999 I miti musica: Riccardo Cocciante IT37 (2 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
2002 Margherita e le altre IT28 (18 weeks)
IT 		- - - -
2006 Tutti i miei sogni IT6th
gold
gold

(41 weeks)IT 		- - - -
Sales: + 25,000
2012 Tutti i successi IT80
gold
gold

(8 weeks)IT 		- - - -
Sales: + 25,000
2013 Sulle labbra e nel pensiero -
I grandi successi 		IT35 (4 weeks)
IT 		- - - -

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Singles (selection)

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT FR FR MOVE BE W BEF BE F NL NL US USTemplate: chart table / maintenance / charts non-existent
1972 Uomo
Mu 		IT23 (4 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
RCA PM 3679
A-side: A Dio
1974 Bella senz'anima
anima 		IT1
gold
gold

(21 weeks)IT 		- - - - -
RCA TPBO 1049
B-side: Qui
2012 Place 78 (1 week) on the FIMI charts
Sales: + 25,000
1975 L'alba
L'alba 		IT2 (24 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
RCA TPBO 1144
B-side: Vendo
1976 When Love Has Gone Away
Richard Cocciante 		- - - - - US41 (6 weeks)
US
English version of Quando finisce un amore (1974)
Margherita
Concerto per Margherita 		IT1
gold
gold

(21 weeks)IT 		FR57 (1 week)
FR 		- - - -
RCA TPBO 1243
B-side: Primavera
chart entry FR 2017
Sales: + 25,000
1978 A mano a mano
Riccardo Cocciante 		IT7 (19 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
RCA PB 6137
B-side: Storie
1979 Io canto
... E io canto 		IT5 (18 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
RCA PB 6278
B-side: Il treno
1981 Cervo a primavera
Cervo a primavera 		IT4 (21 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
RCA PB 6488
B-side: Il sufflé con le banane
1982 Celeste nostalgia
cocciante 		IT4 (28 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
RCA PB 6586
B-side: Un nuovo amico
1983 Sulla terra io e lei
Sincerità 		IT13 (9 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
Virgin VIN 45090
B-side: Di notte
1984 Sincerità
Sincerità 		- - - - NL14 (6 weeks)
NL 		-
Virgin 106 044-100
B-side: Sulla terra io e lei
1985 Questione di feeling
Il mare dei papaveri 		IT2 (18 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
with Mina
Virgin VIN 45166
1986 L'onda
Quando si vuole bene 		IT12 (5 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
Virgin VIN 45196
B-side: Sabato rilassatamente
1991 Se stiamo insieme
Cocciante 		IT1 (24 weeks)
IT 		- - BE F43 (6 weeks)
BE F 		NL23 (5 weeks)
NL 		-
Virgin VIN 45324
Vivi la tua vita
Cocciante 		IT12 (4 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
E mi arriva il mare
Cocciante 		IT4 (14 weeks)
IT 		- - - - -
with Paola Turci
Virgin VINX 263
B-side: Per tornare amici
1993 Pour elle
empreinte 		- FR45 (2 weeks)
FR 		- - - -
French version of Per lei (1994)
1996 Notre histoire
 - - BE W14 (20 weeks)
BE W 		- - -
2014 Il mio rifugio - FR57 (3 weeks)
FR 		- - - -
published in 1994

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literature

  • Pierguido Asinari: Riccardo Cocciante. 1971-2007. Dalla forma canzone al melodramma. Editori Riuniti, Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-359-5944-1 .

Web links

Commons : Riccardo Cocciante  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Thessa Mooij: Riccardo Cocciante: Mijn muziek is een huwelijk tussen twee culturen. In: Trouw.nl . September 21, 1995, accessed May 21, 2018 (Dutch).
  2. ^ Cocciante Richard (Riccardo) . In: Andy Gregory (Ed.): The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 . 4th edition. Europa Publications, London 2002, ISBN 1-85743-161-8 , pp. 100 .
  3. ↑ Onorificenze: Cocciante Riccardo Sig.. In: Quirinale.it. Presidenza della Repubblica, accessed May 21, 2018 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Antonio Mustara: Festival di Sanremo 2006. In: Sorrisi.com . Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, January 21, 2015, accessed May 21, 2018 (Italian).
  5. ↑ a b c Chart sources (albums):
  6. ↑ Awards for music sales: BE
  7. ↑ a b c d Riccardo Cocciante, certificazioni. FIMI, accessed June 11, 2018 (Italian).
  8. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
personal data
SURNAME Cocciante, Riccardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cocciante, Riccardo Vincent; Cocciante, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Saigon , French Indochina