Lucilla Galeazzi | |
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![]() Lucilla Galeazzi at the TFF Rudolstadt 2013 | |
Background information | |
Born | Terni, Italy | December 24, 1950
Genres | Italian folk music, baroque music, jazz |
Occupation | Singer |
Years active | 1977 to present |
Website | http://www.lucillagaleazzi.it |
Lucilla Galeazzi is an Italian folk singer. She performs modern versions of traditional Italian folk music and has also performed internationally in jazz, baroque music and operas. In the 1970s and 80s, she was one of the best-known voices of the Italian folk revival around Giovanna Marini. She began her solo career in 1987 and has produced albums with numerous other musicians since then.
Galeazzi began her career as a teenager in a pop group. Later, she was influenced by her encounter with the ethnomusicologists Valentino Paparelli and Alessandro Portelli. Following this, she took singing lessons with the Japanese soprano Michiko Hiroyama and the bass singer Gianni Socci. In 1977 she became a member of Giovanna Marini's vocal quartet, with whom she recorded four albums and also performed internationally. In 1986, she appeared in Roberto de Simone's production of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Naples Opera house and toured the USA. [1] [2]
In 1987, Galeazzi founded her first own trio, Il Trillo, with Ambrogio Sparagna and Carlo Rizzo, in which she interpreted traditional folk songs in a contemporary style. [3] In later productions, she expanded her repertoire to include baroque music and jazz. For example, she founded the Trio Rouge with jazz musicians Michel Godard and Vincent Courtois and was also a member of Christina Pluhar's baroque ensemble L'Arpeggiata for several years. Galeazzi was also a member of the Bella Ciao project, which reinterprets workers' and partisan songs from Italy. [4]
In 2019, she interpreted women's work songs with percussionist Carlo Rizzo, singers from Galicia and the Belgian ensemble Lalma on the album Alegria e Libertà. [5] Galeazzi also recalled major historical themes in her music. Her production Doppio Fronte. Oratorio per la Grande Guerra commemorated the role of women in the First World War, and the production La Nave a Vapore was dedicated to the history of emigration from Italy. [6]