Dick Danello

Dick Danello
Born Filippo D'Anello
(1943-01-01)January 1, 1943
Belvedere Marittimo, Calabria, Italy
Occupation Singer, composer, producer, actor, presenter
Home town Belvedere Marittimo, Calabria, Italy
Religion Catholic

Musical career

Genres
Instruments Vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar
Years active 1964–present
Labels Odeon, Som Livre, Philips Records
Associated acts Jovem Guarda, Brazilian rock
Website www.dickdanello.com

Dick Danello, stage name of Filippo D'Anello (Belvedere Marittimo, January 1, 1943), is an italian singer, songwriter, producer, presenter and actor living in Brazil. He took part, in the '60, of the brazilian musical movement Jovem Guarda.


Biography

Filippo D'Anello was born in Belvedere Marittimo, city of Calabria, Italy. He started singing yet child in Convento dei Cappuccini just before immigrating to Brazil in 1955. He began his career as a professional singer in 1964, already as Dick Danello, with the album "O Reino da Juventude" released by the famous brazilian disc jockey Antonio Aguilar and counted on the participation of Sérgio Reis, The Vips, Marcos Roberto and other brazilian emerging artists.

In 1965 he recorded his first EP in Gravodisc, Santos, with the orchestra Élcio Alvarez and the vocal group Eloá. In the same year bursts the charts of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with the single Quando Vedrai La Mia Ragazza, which reached the 10th place of the charts. The backing band was the Jet Blacks, and the vocal group Os Titulares do Ritmo.

Since then, he became part of the Jovem Guarda and participate in the tv shows of the Roberto Carlos, who called him of the "The italianissimo" in the presentations.

In 1965 he recorded the single Ogni Mattina, with the accompanying band The Jordans and arrangements of the Pocho, a mexican conductor. The release also occupied the first places of the Brazilian charts and was bought by the BBC to run in England.

In the coming years several launches compact Nessuno Mi Può Giudicare, Caterina Caselli's song classified on the 1966 Sanremo Music Festival, Bisogna Saper Perdere, with arrangements of the famous brazilian maestro Edmundo Peruzzi, Il Mondo Non È Per Me, produced by Tony Campello, and many other hits that marked the 60s in Brazil.

In the early 70s, as already established artist, he has acted in movies and participate in musicals as actor and singer. In 1971 he composed the soundtrack and appeared in a movie with Renato Aragão and Dedé Santana, A Ilha dos Paqueras,[1] with the Fauzi Mansur's direction. He also composed the soundtrack and starred in the first film of renowned brazilian director Carlos Reichenbach, Corrida em Busca do Amor.[2]

He also participated in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice as an actor and singer, when the play comes to Brazil. The direction was made by the russian playwright Eugenio Kusnet. Other actors in the play that have been revealed were Ney Latorraca, Eduardo Conde and Stênio Garcia. He composed soundtracks for over 30 movies and novelas, including the song Passion Love Theme, which was part of the novela Fogo Sobre Terra and was successful in the voice of several artists like Altemar Dutra, Moacyr Franco, Eduardo Assad, Joelma and many other singers. He also composed for the first film of Vera Fischer, Red Signal - As Fêmeas, with the band Magnetic Sounds.[3]

Also in the 70s founded the Central Park Records, a record label which had great importance in the music production in the 70s, launching artists like Dave Maclean, Edward Cliff, Téo Azevedo, who was awarded the Latin Grammy in 2013, and many other regional and singers of the "False English" movement, that would mark the brazilian music industry in the 70s. Dave Maclean sold over 1 million copies in Latin America and Edward Cliff conquered Europe with the hit Nights of September, composition of the Dick Danello, that becoming of the first places in Italy and playing in the English BBC.

In 1982 it began with the radio program Parlando D'Amore, who began to publish the popular Italian music in brazilian territory. The program went through stations such as Radio Capital and Radio Gazeta, and winner of several prizes awarded by the municipal council of São Paulo as a recovery vehicle of foreign italian culture and enriching the São Paulo culture as itself. The history of the program today is research topic of a group of academics of the social communication at USP.[4]

In the 80's launches Parlando D'Amore and L'Italiano albuns, recorded in Milan and Rome and distributed in Brazil. Begin to show in the Rede Manchete annual editions of the Sanremo Music Festival, launching in Brazil Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, Amedeo Minghi, Andrea Bocelli and other artists today devoted worldwide.

In the '90s continues with radio program and is hired by the italian company Costa Crociere, to elaborate cruises with italian themes along the Brazilian and South America coast. He made the musical research for various projects of Rede Globo, including for Terra Nostra novela, one of the biggest recent successes of Brazilian Tv.

In 2004 he released the Cuore Italiano album and, in the same year, is awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Art, Culture and History for his artistic contribution to the country. In 2009 he released the album Nelcuorenellanima, recorded in studios in Milan, Udine and Florence, bringing an original songs and a duet with italian singer Edoardo de Angelis. In 2013 release Rock Italiano album, that makes a tribute to the roaring years of Italian music.

In 2014 receives the Order of the Musicians of Brazil an award in honor of his 50-year career and goes on tour with the band The Clevers to commemorate the anniversary of the Jovem Guarda, singing on the Costa Favolosa cruise, Homs Club and in the Virada Cultural of São Paulo.

Discography

Albums

Soundtracks

EPs

Singles

Actor (partial filmography)

Awards

References

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