Luciano Ligabue
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Luciano Ligabue (born March 13, 1960), also known as Liga, is an Italian rock singer-songwriter, film director and writer.
Biography
Ligabue was born at Correggio, in the province of Reggio Emilia. Before becoming a reckoned singer, he held various job, including agriculture and mechanical industry worker. He entered in the music world in 1987, when he founded the amateur band Orazero. For this band he wrote several original songs, with which they participated to several local and national contests. The following year his fellow Emilian singer-songwriter Pierangelo Bertoli was the first to discover his writing talents, and included one of Ligabue's songs, "Sogni di Rock'n'Roll" ("Rock'n'Roll Dreams"), in his new LP.The following year Bertoli introduced him to producer Angelo Carrara, to finish an LP of his own, Ligabue, which was released in May 1990. Ligabue soon gained a fame as one of the most successful Italian rock stars, finding fans mainly among younger audiences. His most famous hit include Balliamo sul mondo (Let's Dance Over the World), Ho perso le parole (I've Lost the Words) and the most successful of all, Certe Notti (Certain nights), which was voted as "Italian song of the 1990s" in a poll held by a popular music magazine. He also collaborated with another famous singer-songwriter, Francesco Guccini, who also had a part in Ligabue's first movie (see later).
Ligabue directed his first movie, Radiofreccia, in 1998, a semi-autobiographical story of a local radio station. Critics acclaimed it as a surprisingly well shot for a newcomer, and the film received 3 David di Donatello (the highest award of Italian cinema). He also composed the soundtrack. Four years later he shot DaZeroADieci ("From Zero to Ten"): however, it was not as well welcome as the first work, both by critics and fans.
On September 10, 2005, Ligabue held a concert in Reggio Emilia to celebrate his first 15 years of activity. This attracted the record audience for a single artist pay concert in Europe, with a crowd of 180,000 come to listen his songs.
Ligabue has also published a short story collection, Fuori e dentro il Borgo, which won several literary awards, and a science-fiction novel La neve se ne frega (2005).
Political involvement
In the 1980s Ligabue was member of the communal council of his native Correggio, elected for the Italian Communist Party. Though no more assuming a public high level political position, Ligabue, together with Jovanotti and Piero Pelù, released the single "Il mio nome è mai più" ("My Name Is No More"), a song against the war in Kosovo.Discography
- "Anime in plexiglass" (1989, single)
- Ligabue (1990)
- Lambrusco coltelli rose & popcorn (1991)
- Sopravvissuti e sopravviventi (1993)
- A che che ora è la fine del mondo? (1994)
- Buon compleanno Elvis! (1995)
- Su e giù da un palco (1997, live)
- Radiofreccia (1998, soundtrack)
- Il mio nome è mai più (1999)
- Miss Mondo (1999)
- Fuori come va? (2002)
- Giro d'Italia (2003, live)
- Nome e cognome (2005)
Filmography
- Radiofreccia (1998)
- DaZeroaDieci (2001)
Bibliography
- Fuori e dentro il Borgo (1995)
- La neve se ne frega (2004)
External links
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