Eugenio Bennato
- Folk
- world
- Singer
- guitarist
- songwriter
- Vocals
- guitar
- Emi Records
- Philips Records
- Bubble Records
- Taranta Power/Cramps Music
Eugenio Bennato (born 16 March 1948) is an Italian folk musician and songwriter. He is the brother of the musician Edoardo Bennato.
Biography
In 1969, he cofounded the folk band Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, discovered by the author Eduardo De Filippo, who admitted them in his theater. After four studio records, he left and cofounded Musicanova in 1976.
The band wrote the film soundtrack of L'eredità della priora, television film directed by Anton Giulio Majano. In the early 80's he started a solo career.
In 1989, he won a Nastro d'Argento for Best Score, with the movie Cavalli si nasce, directed by Sergio Staino.
In 1990, he participated at the Sanremo Music Festival with Tony Esposito, playing a song called Novecento aufwiedersehen.
In 1998, he founded a musical movement called Taranta Power, with the aim of promoting south-Italian folk culture through music, cinema and theater.
In 2003, he wrote, along with his brother Edoardo, the soundtrack of the animated cartoon Totò Sapore e la magica storia della pizza.
In 2006, he taught laboratory of ethnomusicology at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples.
In 2008, he returned at the Sanremo Festival with the song Grande Sud.
He is a supporter of esperanto language.
Discography
Nuovo Canto Popolare
- Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare (1971)
- NCCP (1973)
- Li Sarracini adorano lu sole (1974)
- Tarantella ca nun va 'bbona (1975)
Musicanova
- Garofano d'ammore (1977)
- Musicanova (1978)
- Quando turnammo a nascere (1979)
- Brigante se more (1980)
- Festa festa (1981)
Solo
- Eugenio Bennato (1983)
- Dulcinea (1984)
- Eughenes (1986)
- La stanza dello scirocco (1988)
- Le città di mare (1989)
- Novecento auf Wiedersehen (1991)
- Mille e una notte fa (1997)
- Taranta power (1999)
- Lezioni di tarantella (2000)
- Che il Mediterraneo sia (2001)
- Sponda Sud (2007)
- Grande Sud (2008)
- Questione meridionale (2011)
References
External links
- Eugenio Bennato official site
- Taranta Power official site
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- Renzo Rossellini (1947)
- Renzo Rossellini (1948)
- Alessandro Cicognini (1949)
- Roman Vlad (1950)
- Giovanni Fusco (1951)
- Mario Nascimbene (1952)
- Valentino Bucchi (1953)
- Mario Zafred (1954)
- Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1955)
- Angelo Francesco Lavagnino (1956)
- Nino Rota (1957)
- Nino Rota (1958)
- Carlo Rustichelli (1959)
- Mario Nascimbene (1960)
- Giovanni Fusco (1961)
- Giorgio Gaslini (1962)
- Piero Piccioni (1963)
- Nino Rota (1964)
- Ennio Morricone (1965)
- Armando Trovajoli (1966)
- Carlo Rustichelli (1967)
- Mario Nascimbene (1968)
- Nino Rota (1969)
- Ennio Morricone (1970)
- Stelvio Cipriani (1971)
- Ennio Morricone (1972)
- Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis (1973)
- Tony Renis (1974)
- Giancarlo Chiaramello (1975)
- Adriano Celentano (1976)
- Fred Bongusto (1977)
- Armando Trovajoli (1978)
- Nino Rota (1979)
- Fred Bongusto (1980)
- Riz Ortolani (1981)
- Lucio Dalla / Fabio Liberatori (1982)
- Angelo Branduardi (1983)
- Riz Ortolani (1984)
- Ennio Morricone (1985)
- Tony Esposito (1986)
- Armando Trovajoli / Riz Ortolani / Giovanni Nuti (1987)
- Ennio Morricone (1988)
- Eugenio Bennato / Carlo D'Angiò (1989)
- Claudio Mattone (1990)
- Nicola Piovani (1991)
- Pino Daniele (1992)
- Manuel De Sica (1993)
- Federico De Robertis (1994)
- Luis Enríquez Bacalov (1995)
- Lucio Dalla (1996)
- Paolo Conte (1997)
- Nino D'Angelo (1998)
- Eugenio Bennato (1999)
- Ennio Morricone (2000)
- Ennio Morricone (2001)
- Edoardo Bennato (2002)
- Nicola Piovani (2003)
- Paolo Fresu (2004)
- Banda Osiris (2005)
- Negramaro / Roy Paci / Fabio Barovero / Simone Fabbroni / Louis Siciliano (2006)
- Ennio Morricone (2007)
- Paolo Buonvino (2008)
- Paolo Buonvino (2009)
- Rita Marcotulli (2010)
- Negramaro (2011)
- Franco Piersanti (2012)
- Ennio Morricone (2013)
- Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2014)
- Nicola Piovani (2015)
- Carlo Virzì (2016)
- Enzo Avitabile (2017)
- Pivio and Aldo De Scalzi (2018)
- Nicola Piovani (2019)