Umberto Bindi

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Umberto Bindi
Umberto Bindi
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Il nostro concerto
  IT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 22/1960 (33 weeks)
  UK 47 11/16/1960 (1 week)
Se ci be
  IT 4th 40/1960 (18 weeks)
Non mi dire chi sei
  IT 9 6/1961 (8 weeks)
Riviera
  IT 2 25/1961 (17 weeks)
Jane
  IT 11 27/1962 (2 weeks)

Umberto Bindi (born May 12, 1932 in Bogliasco , † May 23, 2002 in Rome ) was an Italian cantautore (songwriter).

biography

Bindi was born on May 12, 1932 in Bogliasco in the Italian province of Genoa . His first song, T'ho perduto ("I lost you"), he composed in 1950. His first published song was Arrivederci ("Goodbye") on Ricordi in 1959. The song was by Marino Barreto Jr. popularized and one of the best-selling singles of 1959 in Italy.

In the 1960s, Bindi, along with Bruno Lauzi , Luigi Tenco , Gino Paoli and Fabrizio De André, was one of the best-known representatives of the so-called “Genoese songwriting school” (Cantautori genovesi) - young Genoese who wrote and sang poetic texts based on the model of French chansonniers . Bindi's first LP Umberto Bindi e le sue canzoni was released in 1960.

Bindi wrote a number of well-known songs: Il nostro concerto (1960), Riviera (1961) and especially Il mio mondo (1963), which was sung in 1964 by the British pop singer Cilla Black under the title You're My World . The song held number one on the UK charts for four weeks . As a singer, Bindi took part twice in the Sanremo Festival , in 1961 in a duo with Miranda Martino with Non mi dire chi sei and in 1996 in a duo with the band New Trolls with Letti . Bindi died of a heart attack in 2002 at the age of 70 in a Roman hospital .

Discography

Albums

  • Umberto Bindi e le sue canzoni (1960, Ricordi)
  • Umberto Bindi (1961, Ricordi)
  • Con il passare del tempo (1972, West Record)
  • Io e il mare (1976, Durium)
  • D'ora in poi (1982, Targa) - reissued as: Le voci della sera (1996, DV More Records)
  • Bindi (1985, Ariston)
  • Il nostro concerto (1994)
  • Di coraggio non si muore (1996, Fonopoli Stage)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on March 8, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access).
  2. ↑ I singoli più venduti del 1959
  3. ↑ Simon Frith: Popular Music: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 2, p. 30
  4. ^ Liguria: Italian Riviera, p. 20
  5. ↑ You're My World. In: Officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company , accessed March 9, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bindi, Umberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogliasco
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2002
Place of death Rome