Collage (Italian band)

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Collage (also spelled as I Collage) are an Italian pop music group, mainly successful in the 1970s.

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Career

The group formed in 1971 in Olbia, Sardinia, as the result of the merging of two previous groups, MAL P2 and The Angels. [1] In 1976 they won the Castrocaro Music Festival with the romantic "Due ragazzi nel sole", which turned to be a hit and peaked at third place on the Italian hit parade. [2] [3]

The following year the group entered the main competition at the Sanremo Music Festival ranking second with the song "Tu mi rubi l'anima", which also charted #2 on the Italian hit parade. [2] [3] [4] Following a series of minor hits, starting from the second half of the 1980s the band mainly devoted themselves to live performances and concerts. [2] [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Giacomo Serreli. Sardegna rock 1960 - 1990 : 30 anni di musica nell'isola dal beat al pop, dal jazz all'etno rock. GIA Editrice, 1991.
  2. 1 2 3 Enrico Deregibus. Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. ISBN   8809756258.
  3. 1 2 Dario Salvatori. Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989. ISBN   8876054391.
  4. 1 2 Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN   8863462291.


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