Piero Pintucci

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Piero Pintucci
Born8 January 1943 (1943-01-08) (age 80)
Fiesole, Italy
OccupationComposer

Piero Pintucci (born 8 January 1943) is an Italian composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist.

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Life and career

Born in Fiesole, the son of two musicians, Pintucci studied piano at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence. [1] [2] Put under contract as an arranger by RCA, he got his first success arranging Gianni Morandi's hit "C'era un ragazzo che come me amava i Beatles e i Rolling Stones". [1] [2] [3] Starting from the late 1960s he was also active as a composer, collaborating among others with Mia Martini, Gabriella Ferri, Patty Pravo and Nicola Di Bari, for whom he composed the Sanremo Music Festival 1972 winning song "I giorni dell'arcobaleno". [1] [2] [3]

In the mid-1970s Pintucci started a long collaboration as composer and arranger with Renato Zero, signing the music of his signature song "Il carrozzone". [1] [2] [3] He often collaborated with RAI and Mediaset as a composer of scores and conductor of TV shows, such as Raffaella Carrà's Carramba. [3] He also composed the music of the stage musicals Fratelli and Gaetanaccio, both starring Gigi Proietti. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Ernesto Bassignano. "Pintucci, Piero". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990. p. 1346.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Eddy Anselmi. "Piero Pintucci". Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. p. 846. ISBN   8863462291.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Enrico Deregibus. "Piero Pintucci". Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. p. 368. ISBN   8809756258.
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