Pasquale Panella

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Pasquale Panella
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Born12 January 1950 (1950-01-12) (age 73)
Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)Lyricist, writer

Pasquale Panella (born 12 January 1950) is an Italian lyricist, playwright, poet and novelist. He sometimes used the pen names Duchesca and Vanera.

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Life and career

Panella was born in Rome. After graduating from the Istituto Magistrale, he started his career as author and sometimes also actor of avant-garde theatre. In 1976, he began collaborating as a lyricist with Enzo Carella, notably writing the lyrics of "Barbara", which placed second at the 29th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. [1] [2] [3]

In 1983, Panella was commissioned by Lucio Battisti the lyrics of the Battisti-produced Adriano Pappalardo's album Oh! Era Ora; starting from the 1986 album Don Giovanni , he then became the lyricist of Battisti's following albums. In the second half of the 1980s, he also started a successful and sometimes uncredited collaboration with Amedeo Minghi. His collaborations also include Zucchero Fornaciari, Mina, Mango, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Gianni Morandi, Angelo Branduardi, Marcella Bella, Anna Oxa, Mietta, Sergio Cammariere, Mino Reitano. [1] [2] [3]

Also active as novelist and poet, he collaborated with Riccardo Cocciante writing the lyrics of the Italian versions of the stage musicals Notre-Dame de Paris and Giulietta e Romeo . [2] His surreal and sometimes hermetic writing style has been variously described as dadaist, minimalist, avant-garde and miniaturist. [3]

Literary works

Novels
Collections of poems

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References

  1. 1 2 Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN   978-8863462296.
  2. 1 2 3 Enrico Deregibus (8 October 2010). Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. ISBN   978-8809756250.
  3. 1 2 3 Ernesto Bassignano; Lalla Cantore. "Panella, Pasquale". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990.