was an Italian singer of pop music, known for its interpretations of songs Romanesque and Popular Neapolitan , as well as stage actress.
The beginnings: Luisa and Gabriella
Born and raised in the Roman district of Testaccio , is the daughter of Victor, a itinerant trader sweet admirer of the song in the Roman dialect, stops soon to study because of an accident.
Gabriella has the ambition to become a model and to realize this job carries a lot of work as the working and committed.
knows Luisa De Santis (daughter of director Giuseppe , famous for Bitter Rice) and became close friends: together they create a duo under the name of Luisa and Gabriella, who tries to rediscover the folk repertoire Roman.
They start so early shows, based on the repertoire of traditional Roman songs (as Barcarolo Roman) and songs from pub (like the company of big eaters), and one evening to ' Intra's Club of Milan (in that period are hosted by Camilla Cederna ), were noticed by Walter Guertler , which puts them under contract and released their first 45 laps with the Jolly , a reworking of the popular song The society of big eaters.
Also in 1963 have their first experience on television, in the transmission of dreams The fair presented by Mike Bongiorno , where they sing the company of big eaters who, in the days following the appearance on television, selling one million seven hundred thousand copies, becoming one of the hymns of the youth of those years.
Born and raised in the Roman district of Testaccio , is the daughter of Victor, a itinerant trader sweet admirer of the song in the Roman dialect, stops soon to study because of an accident.
Gabriella has the ambition to become a model and to realize this job carries a lot of work as the working and committed.
knows Luisa De Santis (daughter of director Giuseppe , famous for Bitter Rice) and became close friends: together they create a duo under the name of Luisa and Gabriella, who tries to rediscover the folk repertoire Roman.
They start so early shows, based on the repertoire of traditional Roman songs (as Barcarolo Roman) and songs from pub (like the company of big eaters), and one evening to ' Intra's Club of Milan (in that period are hosted by Camilla Cederna ), were noticed by Walter Guertler , which puts them under contract and released their first 45 laps with the Jolly , a reworking of the popular song The society of big eaters.
Also in 1963 have their first experience on television, in the transmission of dreams The fair presented by Mike Bongiorno , where they sing the company of big eaters who, in the days following the appearance on television, selling one million seven hundred thousand copies, becoming one of the hymns of the youth of those years.
released in cinemas in 1965 Italian and foreign companies, perhaps their first and only movie musical content in the film director and producer of Ritmo 008 Operation Tullio Piacentini. The Jolly
therefore enter the market a new single of the artists who draw this time at the Sicilian folk recording their own version of sciuri sciuri and Vitti'na crozza: this second single was extremely successful and the artists affected third 45 The poor turn composed of Cecilia, a traditional song often sung by minstrels and side B is all my stuff, borrowed from the show The cabal and music by Ennio Morricone .
therefore enter the market a new single of the artists who draw this time at the Sicilian folk recording their own version of sciuri sciuri and Vitti'na crozza: this second single was extremely successful and the artists affected third 45 The poor turn composed of Cecilia, a traditional song often sung by minstrels and side B is all my stuff, borrowed from the show The cabal and music by Ennio Morricone .
solo career
The duo, however, does not last, because of shyness Luisa, who does not like to sing in public; Gabriella then continues on its own, recording an album in 1966, the same year is a tour in Canada, along with other members of the folk as Caterina Bueno, Othello Profazio and Lino Toffolo in a play that was directed by Aldo Trionfo .
After years spent in Milan, he returned to Rome in late 1966 and is brought to Bagaglino of Rome, where he became the lead singer; here know Pintucci Piero, who became one of his usual musical collaborator, and recorded a 45 rpm in 1968 for the ARC , is now down in the evening, which in Italy has not a big commercial success.
The b-side of this single, I'll give you my eyes, reaches the top of the charts in South America and Gabriella affect in English with the title mis ojos Te gift by selling several million copies: it takes a tour of the South American country with dazzling success before returning to perform at Bagaglino with Enrico Montesano .
Gabriella Ferri, at that time, however, does not mind the beat, he also performed at the Piper Club : after signing a new recording contract with RCA Italian , participates in the 1969 Sanremo Festival but although presented in pairs with Stevie Wonder , una bella canzone con sonorità beat e rhythm'n'blues, scritta da Gabriella insieme al padre Vittorio e a Piero Pintucci , intitolata Se tu ragazzo mio, l'artista viene eliminata al primo turno e a Sanremo non tornerà mai più.
Il disco comunque è un successo, e la canzone viene reinterpretata da molti altri artisti (come I Camaleonti e Nada : questo spinge la RCA a pubblicare alla fine del 1969 l'album Gabriella Ferri , in cui canzoni più moderne si affiancano a brani della tradizione come Ciccio Formaggio; il disco è importante anche per il tentativo di creare una nuova canzone romanesca che si riallacci alla tradizione, ed emblematiche in this sense are fregnone Sor, written by Ferri on a music Vittorio Nocenzi (keyboardist of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso ) and Sinn me moro, a song written in 1961 by director Pietro Germi music by Carlo Rustichelli for the film Murder Rustichelli and sung by the daughter, Alida Chelli (Gabriella had already engraved in 1963 with Luisa De Sanctis).
Over the years, his physique, which had to be lean and thin, has been gradually strengthening and this new look is about her as a mother who holds Rome head (on TV in a broadcast that has become a cult, more times sent) to Claudio Villa : starlings, the two worst things are said and Gabriella comes out as the heir of a Roman general who is not only voice but also appearance.
Thus appropriates the songs, no matter old or new, that give her the chance to build some real numbers, almost like 'specks', but where there is no imitation of the old Neapolitan artists, but the filter an exuberant personality and irresistible: Where is so Zaza? that the war had been the symbol of Italy dissolved (Where is Zazà / Uh My Mother) was once again in its interpretation of a song full of malice and bitterness, and so had to Ciccio Formaggio old song sung by Nino Taranto . In the 70
increase his appearances on television: a special evening had been dedicated in 1971 , Tonight ... Gabriella Ferri, and the mid-seventies was also conducted for the television variety Where is Zaza (1973), who took the title of the reason for success that had helped to raise the voices of the Circus (1974) and Mazzabubù (1975). After the experience of television
Play a Variety ( 1980) and the recording of an album with some songs written for her by Elvis ( Gabriella In 1981, with the famous vamp), moved for some time in the USA , leaving television and cabaret to dedicate themselves entirely to music. Back in Italy
, recorded in 1987 the initials of the television variety Bottle .
Breaking The appearance and disappearance
his last two major artistic output occurred in 1996 the Premio Tenco Sanremo of where he performed with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel and July of 1997 Park with a concert in Rome Celimontana to (included in the event craving Years 60) in front of 7,000 spectators (if you waited a thousand). In 1997
records an album, Back to the future, then the final withdrawal from the scene, partly because of the serious consequences depression that tormented her on and off for years, with a few sporadic appearances in TV shows, chose to leading retired life. On April 3
Gabriella Ferri died in 2004, following a fall from a window in his house Corchiano ( VT). He had already tried to commit suicide in 1975, following the death of his father Vittorio. However, the family denies any suggestion of suicide , assuming that si possa essere trattato di un malore, causato magari dai medicinali antidepressivi di cui la cantante faceva uso. La famiglia, inoltre, sostiene che non è stato lasciato nessun biglietto di addio, e che la cantante avrebbe dovuto partecipare, il lunedì successivo alla morte , ad un programma televisivo, al quale non intendeva assolutamente mancare.
Per volontà del sindaco di Roma , Walter Veltroni , la camera ardente venne allestita in Campidoglio , nella Sala Protomoteca, dove migliaia di romani le resero omaggio.
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