David Riondino

David Riondino
Background information
Birth name	Danod Riondino
Born	(1952-06-10) 10 June 1952 (age 72) Florence, Italy
Occupations	Guitarist singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals guitar
Years active	1974–present
Website	www.davidriondino.com

David Riondino (born 10 June 1952) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer.

Life and career

Born in Florence, Italy, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s as a member of the musical ensemble Collettivo Victor Jara. ^{[1] [2]} In 1979 he made his solo debut with the album David Riondino, and the same year he was the opening act in a series of concerts by Fabrizio De André and Premiata Forneria Marconi, including those in Florence and Bologna, where De Andre's very famous live album Fabrizio De André in concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM was recorded. ^{[1] [2]} In 1980, following his second album, Boulevard, with arrangements by Shel Shapiro, he focused on his live activity, where he mixed improvisation, music and cabaret. ^[1]

Starting from the second half of the 1980s Riondino enjoyed a large success thanks to the semi-regular participation to the Canale 5 show Maurizio Costanzo Show , where he used to improvise surreal songs imitating the style of the Brazilian singer-songwriters. ^{[1] [2] [3]} In 1987 he released his third album Tango dei miracoli, whose booklet was illustrated by Milo Manara. ^[1]

Riondino's variagated career includes films, TV series, comedy plays as well as novels, poems and several collaborations with newspapers and magazines as a humorist and a semi-serious columnist. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Filmography

• To Love the Damned (1980)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
• Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan (1987)
• Zanzibar (TV, 1988)
• Cavalli si nasce (1988)
• La cattedra (1991)
• Ilona Arrives with the Rain (1996)
• Cuba Libre – Velocipedi ai tropici (1997, also director)
• Donna selvaggia (1998)
• Vado e torno (TV, 1998)
• L'erba proibita (2002)
• Viva Zapatero! (2005)
• L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa (2009)
• Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio (2011)
• The Invisible Player (2016)

Discography

• 1979 – David Riondino (Ultima Spiaggia, ZPLS 34061)
• 1980 – Boulevard (RCA Italiana, PL 31547)
• 1987 – Tango dei miracoli (L'ALTernativa, ALT 003)
• 1989 – Racconti picareschi (CGD, CGD 20932)
• 1991 – Non svegliate l'amore (CGD, CGD 9031 74383-1)
• 1994 – Temporale (CGD, CGD 4509 96185-2)
• 1995 – Quando vengono le ballerine? (Rossodisera Records-Sony, RDS 480351)

Books

• Rombi e milonghe. João Mesquinho e altre canzoni. Feltrinelli, 1993. ISBN   88-07-81231-2.
• Viaggio a Cuba, with Valerio Peretti Cucchi. Zelig, 1997. ISBN   88-86471-49-1.
• Epos 92–97. L'Italia in terzine da Tangentopoli all'Ulivo, Grugliasco, Edizioni Arti grafiche San Rocco, 1998. ISBN   88-900156-1-6.
• Rumba. Itinerari cubani al ritmo della capitale, con Roberto Perini, Milano, Lizard, 1999. ISBN   88-86456-70-0.
• Dante Inferno, with Sandro Lombardi, con CD, Milano, Garzanti, 2002. ISBN   88-11-12007-1.
• Cantata dei pastori immobili. Racconto di un presepe vivente, illustrations by Sergio Staino. Donzelli, 2004. ISBN   88-7989-900-7.
• John Martin. Il trombettiere di Apricale. Da Garibaldi a Custer, with Claudio Nobbio. Fratelli Frilli, 2007. ISBN   978-88-7563-312-7.
• Firenze. Effequ, 2013. ISBN   978-88-89647-85-1.

References

1. Andrea Terrinoni. "David Riondino". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1470–1.
2. Enrico Deregibus (8 October 2010). Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. pp. 397–8. ISBN   978-8809756250.
3. Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. p. 873. ISBN   978-8863462296.

External links

• Official website
• David Riondino at IMDb
• David Riondino discography at Discogs