Zucchero

Zucchero 2007

Zucchero ( [ˈdzukkero] ; born September 25, 1955 in Roncocesi near Reggio nell'Emilia as Adelmo Fornaciari ), also known as Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari , is an Italian singer , multi-instrumentalist and songwriter . His music, which he performs in Italian and English , is inspired by gospel , blues and rock music . He is considered the "father of the Italian blues". His stage name, the Italian word for sugar , goes back to the name given by a primary school teacher. In Italy he topped the album charts a total of 13 times. In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Komtur) for his services .

Life

Fornaciari began his musical activity in 1970 with the band Le Nuove Luci , with whom he performed in pubs until 1978. Other formations in which he was active were Sugar & Daniel and Sugar & Candies . In 1981 the singer won the Castrocaro Festival with the song Canto te ; the following year he presented Una notte che vola via at the Sanremo Festival in 1982 . In 1983 he returned to Sanremo with Nuvola and subsequently released his debut album Un po 'di Zucchero . The hoped-for success did not materialize, which is why Zucchero presented another song at the Sanremo Festival in 1985 with a stronger rhythm and blues influence and support from the Randy Jackson Band : Donne . Despite the poor performance in the competition, Zucchero achieved its first sales success. This was followed by the album Zucchero & The Randy Jackson Band .

Only the third album by the musician, Rispetto , earned him a chart placement. The previous participation in the Sanremo Festival 1986 with Canzone triste was, however, another failure. The final breakthrough came in 1987 with the fourth album Blue’s : This reached the top of the charts for the first time and was named album of the year in the festival bar competition. The best- known single from it was Senza una donna . After a short detour into the film sector in 1988 with the soundtrack for Tinto Brass ' film Snack Bar Budapest , Zucchero released another album in 1989, Oro incenso & birra , which once again surpassed the success of its predecessor and remained at the top of the for a full 20 weeks Album charts held. This was followed by an extensive tour. Zucchero also teamed up with fellow musicians Dodi Battaglia , Maurizio Vandelli , Fio Zanotti , Michele Torpedine and Umbi Maggi to form the short-lived group Adelmo ei suoi Sorapis , which released the album Walzer d'un Blues in 1993.

The live album Live at the Kremlin emerged from two concerts that Zucchero gave in 1990 in the Moscow Kremlin . In 1991 he recorded a new version of Senza una donna with Paul Young , which made the song his most internationally known hit. The following year, Zucchero was the only Italian singer to appear at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert ; he sang the song Las palabras de amor . This also began the musical collaboration and friendship with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor . Zucchero's sixth studio album Miserere was released in 1992 and was able to build on the successes; The musician recorded the title track with Luciano Pavarotti , with whom he then appeared at the first edition of the Pavarotti & Friends concert series.

At the 1993 World Music Awards , Zucchero was recognized as the most successful Italian performer, and in 1994 he was the only participant from Italy at the Woodstock II concert . The album Spirito DiVino followed , and in 1996 Zucchero's first Best Of was released. At the invitation of Sting , Zucchero performed in 1997 at a benefit concert in Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Rainforest Foundation , where he performed his own version of the popular Verdi -Arie Va, pensiero . This brought him great success in the single charts, which Zucchero was able to repeat in Italy with Blu , the first single from the next studio album Bluesugar , which just missed the top of the chart. With Baila (Sexy Thing) the musician had his first number one hit in 2001, which was followed by the album Shake .

With Zu & Co. , Zucchero presented an album at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 2004 , on which he played new and old songs in a duet with international stars such as Sting, Miles Davis , Dolores O'Riordan , Vanessa Carlton , Maná and Macy Gray sang; In addition to Italy, it also reached the top of the charts in Austria and Switzerland. The single Il grande Baboomba (with Mousse T. ) became a summer hit in Italy and won the festival bar competition. As part of the worldwide Live 8 benefit concerts on July 2, 2005, Zucchero performed in both Rome and Paris . The next studio album Fly was produced by Don Was and was released in 2006. Following the following world tour, the musician also released the Best of All the Best in 2007 and the live album Live in Italy in 2008 .

When Zucchero's daughter Irene Fornaciari first took part in the Sanremo Festival in 2009, Zucchero revived Adelmo ei suoi Sorapis with Dodi Battaglia, Maurizio Vandelli and Fio Zanotti and performed together with Irene in Sanremo. The next studio album, Chocabeck , was released in 2010, but in 2011 the musician published his autobiography Il suono della domenica . This was followed in 2012 by La sesión cubana , an album recorded in Havana on which the musician presented his own songs in a new arrangement as well as covers and a few new songs; an Italian version of the classic Guantanamera was released as the first single . The concert, recorded during the following world tour in Cuba, was included in the 2013 album Una rosa blanca . In 2015 Zucchero took part in the solidarity concert Voices for Refugees in Vienna.

In 2016 a new studio album was released with Black Cat . This includes u. a. the song Streets of Surrender (SOS) , written by Bono , about the terrorist attacks in Paris and the refugee crisis ; Zucchero took on Mark Knopfler .

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

• Un po 'di Zucchero (1983)
• Zucchero & The Randy Jackson Band (1985)

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK
1986	Rispetto	IT7 (29 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Polydor
1987	Blues	IT1 (39 weeks) IT	-	-	CH18th platinum (4 weeks)CH	-	Polydor sales: + 50,000
1988	Snack bar Budapest	IT14 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Polydor soundtrack
1989	Oro incenso & birra	IT1 gold (… Where.)IT	-	-	CH1 platinum (22 weeks)CH	-	Polydor sales: +75,000
1992	Miserere	IT1 (24 weeks) IT	-	-	CH8th platinum (10 weeks)CH	-	Polydor sales: + 50,000
	Miserere (International Version)	-	-	-	CH9 (5 weeks) CH	-	Polydor
1993	Waltz d'un blues	IT11 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Mercury as Adelmo ei suoi Sorapis
1995	Spirito DiVino / Stray Cat in a Mad Dog City	IT1 (72 weeks) IT	DE17 (18 weeks) DE	-	CH3 platinum (38 weeks)CH	-	Polydor sales: + 50,000
	Spirito DiVino (edizione Natale)	IT22 (3 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Polydor Christmas Edition
1998	Bluesugar	IT1 (32 weeks) IT	DE72 (3 weeks) DE	AT14 (15 weeks) AT	CH6th platinum (20 weeks)CH	-	Polydor sales: + 50,000
2001	shake	IT1 (69 weeks) IT	DE25 (10 weeks) DE	AT16 (9 weeks) AT	CH1 × 3 Triple platinum (45 weeks)CH	-	Universal sales: + 120,000
2006	Fly	IT1 (61 weeks) IT	DE23 (9 weeks) DE	AT3 gold (29 weeks)AT	CH1 platinum (45 weeks)CH	-	Polydor / Universal sales: + 45,000
2010	Chocabeck	IT1 × 5 Quintuple platinum (89 weeks)IT	DE16 (15 weeks) DE	AT7th gold (23 weeks)AT	CH2 platinum (50 weeks)CH	-	Universal sales: + 340,000
2012	La sesión cubana	IT1 × 3 Triple platinum (63 weeks)IT	DE40 (5 weeks) DE	AT1 gold (36 weeks)AT	CH5 (37 weeks) CH	-	Universal sales: +190,000
2016	Black Cat	IT1 × 2 Double platinum (64 weeks)IT	DE13 (11 weeks) DE	AT2 gold (33 weeks)AT	CH1 (40 weeks) CH	-	Universal sales: + 107,500
2019	DOC	IT2 gold (17 weeks)IT	DE27 (4 weeks) DE	AT6 (9 weeks) AT	CH1 (18 weeks) CH	-	Universal sales: + 25,000

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK
1991	Live at the Kremlin	IT6 (15 weeks) IT	-	-	CH28 (1 week) CH	-	Polydor
2008	Live in Italy	IT7th gold (19 weeks)IT	-	AT31 (5 weeks) AT	CH91 (2 weeks) CH	-	Polydor / Universal sales: + 40,000
2013	Una rosa blanca	IT10 gold (31 weeks)IT	-	-	CH50 (3 weeks) CH	-	Universal sales: + 30,000

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK
1991	Zucchero	-	DE9 (20 weeks) DE	-	CH7th platinum (20 weeks)CH	UK29 (4 weeks) UK	London Records Sales: + 50,000
1996	The best of… greatest hits	IT1 (44 weeks) IT	DE10 gold (62 weeks)DE	AT7th platinum (19 weeks)AT	CH2 × 2 Double platinum (46 weeks)CH	-	Polydor sales: + 400,000
	The Best of… Greatest Hits (Limited Edition)	IT27 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	-	Polydor
1997	The Best of… Greatest Hits (New Version)	IT24 (38 weeks) IT	-	AT31 (15 weeks) AT	-	-	Polydor
1999	The Best of… Greatest Hits (Special Edition)	-	-	AT35 (24 weeks) AT	-	-	Polydor
2001	Best Of (New Version)	IT51 (14 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Polydor / Universal
2004	To & Co.	IT1 (73 weeks) IT	DE4th platinum (27 weeks)DE	AT1 platinum (31 weeks)AT	CH1 × 2 Double platinum (42 weeks)CH	-	Polydor / Universal sales: + 310,000
2005	To & Co .: The Ultimate Duets Collection	IT53 (16 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Polydor / Universal
2007	All the best	IT1 platinum (110 weeks)IT	DE16 gold (21 weeks)DE	AT6 (59 weeks) AT	CH2 platinum (53 weeks)CH	-	Polydor / Universal sales: + 180,000
2014	All The Best + Zu & Co.	-	-	-	CH37 (1 week) CH	-	Polydor / Universal
2017	Wanted (The Best Collection)	IT3 platinum (31 weeks)IT	DE94 (1 week) DE	AT20 (10 weeks) AT	CH15 (15 weeks) CH	-	Universal sales: + 50,000
	Number one albums	IT13IT	DE-DE	AT2AT	CH6thCH	UK-UK
	Top 10 albums	IT19thIT	DE3DE	AT8thAT	CH15thCH	UK-UK
	Albums in the charts	IT26thIT	DE13DE	AT14thAT	CH21stCH	UK1UK

More compilations

• Six Mix (1988)
• Diamante (1994)

Singles (selection)

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		IT	DE	AT	CH	UK
1985	Donne Zucchero & The Randy Jackson Band	IT21 (2 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Contribution to the Sanremo Festival 1985
1987	Senza una donna / Con le mani Blue’s	IT14 (8 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
1991	Senza una donna (Without a Woman)	-	DE2 (26 weeks) DE	AT8 (13 weeks) AT	CH2 (23 weeks) CH	UK4 (12 weeks) UK	feat. Paul Young
	A Wonderful World Diamante	-	DE71 (5 weeks) DE	-	CH17 (2 weeks) CH	-	feat. Eric Clapton
1992	Diamante	-	DE20 (14 weeks) DE	-	CH11 (14 weeks) CH	UK44 (7 weeks) UK	feat. Randy Crawford
	Miserere Miserere	-	-	-	CH22 (2 weeks) CH	UK15 (5 weeks) UK	feat. Luciano Pavarotti
1995	Per colpa di chi Spirito DiVino	IT20 (2 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
1996	Il volo (My Love) Spirito DiVino - Stray Cat in a Mad Dog City	-	DE23 (27 weeks) DE	-	CH20 (6 weeks) CH	-
	She's my baby	-	DE98 (1 week) DE	-	-	-
1997	Va, pensiero	IT4 (8 weeks) IT	DE52 (9 weeks) DE	AT17 (12 weeks) AT	CH19 (17 weeks) CH	-	after Giuseppe Verdi
1998	Blu (Blue) bluesugar	IT2 (10 weeks) IT	-	-	CH35 (11 weeks) CH	-
2001	Baila (Sexy Thing) Shake	IT1 (17 weeks) IT	DE97 (1 week) DE	-	CH3 gold (39 weeks)CH	-	Sales: + 20,000
	Ahum (I'm in Trouble) Shake	IT16 (13 weeks) IT	DE84 (2 weeks) DE	-	CH72 (7 weeks) CH	-
2002	Dindondio shake	IT31 (2 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
2003	World	-	-	-	CH37 (6 weeks) CH	-	with Anggun
2004	Il grande Baboomba Zu & Co.	IT8 (18 weeks) IT	-	-	CH16 (14 weeks) CH	-	feat. Mousse T.
	Indaco dagli occhi del cielo (Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime) Zu & Co.	-	-	AT56 (7 weeks) AT	-	-	feat. Vanessa Carlton Original from The Korgis
2006	Baila morena Zu & Co.	-	-	-	CH10 (42 weeks) CH	-	feat. Maná
	Bacco perbacco Fly	-	-	-	CH32 (10 weeks) CH	-
2007	Tatting (Flying Away) Fly	-	DE60 (3 weeks) DE	-	CH56 (5 weeks) CH	-
2008	Wonderful Life All the Best	IT9 (10 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Original from Black
	Amen all the best	IT42 (3 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
	Tutti i colori della mia vita All the Best	IT7 (5 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
	Una carezza Live in Italy	IT4 (4 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
2010	A peccato the Chocabeck	IT5 gold (18 weeks)IT	-	-	CH41 (4 weeks) CH	-	Sales: + 15,000
	Someone Else's Tears Chocabeck	IT47 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	-
2011	Un soffio caldo Chocabeck	IT41 (14 weeks) IT	-	-	CH71 (1 week) CH	-
	Vedo nero Chocabeck	IT16 platinum (27 weeks)IT	-	-	-	-	Sales: + 30,000
	Chocabeck Chocabeck	IT38 (11 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
2012	Guantanamera (Guajira) La sesión cubana	IT11 platinum (19 weeks)IT	-	-	-	-	Sales: + 30,000
	So celeste	IT99 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	-	Zucchero & Cheb Mami was published in 2004
2013	Quale senso abbiamo noi Una rosa blanca	IT27 (11 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-
2016	Partigiano reggiano Black Cat	IT60 gold (9 weeks)IT	-	-	-	-	Sales: + 25,000
	Number one singles	IT1IT	DE-DE	AT-AT	CH-CH	UK-UK
	Top 10 singles	IT8thIT	DE1DE	AT1AT	CH3CH	UK1UK
	Singles in the charts	IT22ndIT	DE9DE	AT3AT	CH16CH	UK3UK

bibliography

• Il suono della domenica . Mondadori , 2011, ISBN 978-88-04-61383-1 .

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Belgium 1996: for the single Il volo (My Love) 1996: for the album Spirito DiVino 1997: for the album The Best of… Greatest Hits  France 1991: for the album Zucchero 1991: for the single Senza una donna (Without a Woman) 2004: for the album Zu & Co 2006: for the single Baila morena  Italy 2019: for the single 13 buone ragioni 2019: for the single Diamante (Zucchero & Ardent Gospel Choir)  Netherlands 1997: for the album Best of  Switzerland 2005: for the video album Live at the Royal Albert Hall  Sweden 1991: for the single Senza una donna (Without a Woman)

Platinum record  Europe 1996: for the album Spirito DiVino 2002: for the album Shake 2006: for the album Zu & Co  France 1996: for the album Spirito DiVino 3 × platinum record  Europe 2001: for the album The Best of Zucchero

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Belgium (BEA)	3 × gold3	-	75,000	ultratop.be
Germany (BVMI)	2 × gold2	platinum1	550,000	musikindustrie.de
Europe (IFPI)	-	6 × platinum6th	(6,000,000)	ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
France (SNEP)	4 × gold4th	platinum1	950,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Italy (FIMI)	8 × gold8th	14 × platinum14th	950,000	fimi.it
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	122,500	ifpi.at
Sweden (IFPI)	gold1	-	25,000	sverigetopplistan.se
Switzerland (IFPI)	2 × gold2	15 × platinum15th	663,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	25 × gold25th	39 × platinum39

Artist awards (selection)

• 1997: RSH Gold
• 2008: Baloise Session Award - Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2011: DIVA - German Entertainment Prize

literature

• Massimo Cotto: Zucchero - encounters with the devil and holy water. Edition Koch, Höfen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7081-0513-0 (Original edition: Incontri con il diavolo e l'acqua santa ).

Web links

Commons : Zucchero  - collection of images

• Official website
• Zucchero at Rockol.it
• Zucchero at laut.de
• Zucchero at Allmusic (English)
• Zucchero in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Zucchero on MusicBrainz (English)
• Works by and about Zucchero in the catalog of the German National Library

supporting documents

1. ^ David Dicaire: More Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Artists from the Later 20th Century . 2001, ISBN 0-7864-1035-3 , pp. 242 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ↑ Larry Katz: Musicians Love Zucchero . In: New Straits Times . August 13, 1997 ( online version [accessed May 12, 2016]).
3. ↑ Onorificenze, Fornaciari Sig. Adelmo in arte Zucchero. Presidenza della Repubblica, accessed May 12, 2016 (Italian). 
4. ↑ Gloria Pozzi: Così Zucchero torna Adelmo e gioca in blues fra amici . In: Corriere della Sera . RCS MediaGroup , November 16, 1993, p. 37 ( online ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on May 12, 2016]).
5. ↑ Silvia Bizio: Zucchero ora canta 'Va' pensiero ' . In: La Repubblica . April 28, 1997 ( online [accessed May 12, 2016]).
6. ^ Antonio D'Orrico: Zucchero: “Ecco il romanzo della mia vita”. In: Corriere.it. RCS MediaGroup, November 9, 2011, accessed May 12, 2016 (Italian). 
7. ↑ Una Rosa Blanca (Zucchero) - Product Detail, Universal Music, December 6, 2013
8. ↑ "People in need need attention". In: WZOnline. Wiener Zeitung , October 3, 2015, accessed on May 12, 2016 . 
9. ^ Lars Brandle: U2's Bono Has Written a Song for Paris. Billboard , December 7, 2015, accessed May 12, 2016 . 
10. ^ Zucchero: è 'Partigiano Reggiano' il primo singolo del nuovo album 'Black Cat'. In: ADNkronos. GMC SAPA, March 21, 2016, accessed May 12, 2016 (Italian). 
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources (albums):
    • Zucchero chart positions. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on May 11, 2016 (DE). 
    • Albums by Zucchero. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed on May 11, 2016 (AT). 
    • Albums by Zucchero. In: Hitparade.ch . Hung Medien, accessed on May 11, 2016 (CH). 
    • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on May 11, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT until 1995). 
    • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 187 (IT 1995-2012).
    • Albums by Zucchero. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed on May 11, 2016 (English, IT since 2013). 
    • Zucchero chart positions. In: Officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company , accessed April 29, 2015 (UK, English). 
12. ↑ Chart sources (singles):
    • Zucchero chart positions. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment, accessed on May 11, 2016 (DE). 
    • Zucchero singles. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed on May 11, 2016 (AT). 
    • Zucchero singles. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on May 11, 2016 (CH). 
    • M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi, accessed on May 11, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT until 1997). 
    • Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 160 f . (IT 1995-2012).
    • Zucchero singles. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed on May 11, 2016 (English, IT since 2013). 
    • Archivio classifiche Top Digital. FIMI, accessed May 11, 2016 (Italian). 
    • Zucchero chart positions. In: Officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company , accessed April 29, 2015 (UK, English). 
13. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1997