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daily Watercolor - Angelo Branduardi

recently spoke Franco Battiato, Italian singer / songwriter well known in Spain. And since I did the post I started reescuchar of his music which, coincidentally, I store along with other lesser-known Italian singers. And one of them is a genius named Angelo Branduardi , well known in Italy (in Spain very little), that came to me by the hand of my wife Marta, whom her friend Luisa (high rider) he showed in his day, and that in turn had inherited it from her sisters, and so up to Kevin Bacon in 6 steps . The first song I knew it was " If puo fare" ("can do" ), a small wonder and very catchy.

Branduardi Cuggiono was born in 1950, and raised in Genoa. From a very early showed a penchant for music, so that their parents I enrolled in the local conservatory, where at 15 he made his debut as soloist in the orchestra of the same. Had to move on the guitar by physical problems with the violin, and studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of Milan. There he composed his first songs based on texts and poems by authors they like, as the famous " Confessioni di un malandrino" based on texts Esenin , the Russian poet. Take the opportunity to travel by hitchhiking through France, meeting other authors who befriended, and a love of France which is then reflected in the publication record sung in French, and in the many awards he has received in our country neighbor (including the prize for best French-language album "very important and critical acclaim in France). He has also released records in England and Germany, receiving several awards in both countries.


In 1974 he published his first album titled with your name, and it is a virtuoso on several instruments. It also has a particular interest in including forgotten instruments, ancient or exotic in their songs. Over the years he has published a number of albums, has composed soundtracks (even won the equivalent of Goya English at home), and has risked reviving XIV century music, instruments like the lute and poets like Yeats . In 93 published the disc's title to the song you said before, "S i puo fare," which is a major critical and commercial success.


watercolor on: it was very easy to choose what image to paint the good of Angelo. Those hairs that leads from his youth (now more recortaditos, but still with a similar hairstyle, but grayed) can "cut loose" also watercolorist. So I've got all kinds of colors while retaining a dark intonation, has not had a lot of mystery.


I leave you with a video of " The Moon" , another marvel of Angelo Branduardi.
Watercolor on Fabriano 18.5 x12cm.