David Riondino

David Riondino
Born 10 June 1952 (1952-06-10) (age 63)
Florence, Italy

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

Life and career

Born in Florence, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s as a member of the musical ensamble 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.[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

Discography

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Andrea Terrinoni. "David Riondino". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1470-1.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Enrico Deregibus. Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. pp. 397–8. ISBN 8809756258.
  3. 1 2 Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. p. 873. ISBN 8863462291.

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