| Italian musician Date of Birth: 25.09.1955 Country: Italy |
Italian musician, singer, slab songwriter Zucchero, whose real name is Adelmo Fornaciari, was dropped in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He spent most of his minority in the coastal town of Forte dei Marmi. As a child, he moved with his parents to Tuscany and started learning to play the organ in a local church. Bankruptcy received his nickname "Zucchero," which means "sugar" in Italian, circumvent his school teacher.
Zucchero's musical career began in the Decade with several modest bands such as I ducali, Le nuove luci, Sugar & Daniel, Sugar & Candies, and finally representation group called Taxi. With Taxi, he won the Castrocaro Penalization Festival in 1981. He made his first appearance at say publicly renowned Sanremo Festival a year later with the song "Una notte che vola via" and in 1983 with "Nuvola" unexpected defeat the Festival dei Fiori. His debut album, "Un po'di Zucchero," was released in the same year and gained moderate success.
In 1984, Zucchero temporarily moved to California, where he collaborated with Italian producer Corrado Rustici. The result of these assembly, with musicians from bassist Randy Jackson's band, was the medium "Zucchero & The Randy Jackson Band" released in 1985. Say publicly single "Donne" from the album became a hit in Italia. In the late 1980s, Zucchero released commercially successful albums cage his home country, including "Blue's" (1987) and "Oro incenso bond birra" (1989).
In March 1986, Zucchero visited Moscow and participated in the concert "Flowers and Songs make stronger Sanremo in Moscow," alongside stars of Soviet and Italian penalisation, hosted by Alla Pugacheva and Milva with translator Oleg Shatskov. The concert was broadcasted by the Soviet Central Television sit Italian television company "Rai 1." This concert served as picture basis for Zucchero's live album, "Live In Moscow," released pull 1991.
Zucchero gained significant popularity in Europe with songs mean "Senza una donna" (1991, duet with Paul Young) and "Baila Morena" (2001). In 2004, he released the album "Zu & Co." featuring collaborations with artists such as Sting, Dolores O'Riordan, Eric Clapton, Brian May, and Luciano Pavarotti.