Claudio Baglioni (born 16 May 1951) is an Italian musician. His various works include the official Anthem for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turin. He has also written for previous sporting events.
His musical career began in 1965 when he entered a competition for new talents in the Rome district of Centocelle. Between 1965 and 1968 he composed a musical suite to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe entitled
Annabel Lee, made a test recording for RCA, released his first album
Claudio Baglioni. In 1969, he entered the
Disco per l'estate competition with the song
Una favola blu and the
Festivalbar competition with
Signora Lia. The following year, Baglioni released his first album
Claudio Baglioni, which didn't sell well and was retired from the market a few weeks after initial release.
Following the release of his second album
Un cantastorie dei giorni nostri in 1972, he made the big-time with
Questo piccolo grande amore. He set off for his first tour in 1973, the year of
Gira che ti rigira amore bello. On 4 August 1973, he married Paola Massari. In 1974 he produced
E tu in Paris in collaboration with Vangelis and in 1975
Sabato pomeriggio with arrangements by Louis Enriquez Bacalov. In 1977 he released
Solo and began a tour of the United States and Canada. 1978 was the year of
E tu come stai?, released by his new record company CBS.
In 1981 he produced the hugely successful album
Strada facendo and gave a series of concerts in the palasport buildings. For the birth of his son Giovanni, in 1982, he composed
Avrai, a song dedicated to his newborn son Giovanni, and set off for the highly acclaimed
Alé-oó tour, which spawned an album of the same name. In 1985 he produced
La vita è adesso and the following year set off for the
Assolo tour, a three-hour tour-de-force of vocals, guitar and piano. After two years of work, he released
Oltre, an album which included the participation of numerous illustrious names from the international music world, such as Paco De Lucia, Pino Daniele, Mia Martini, Youssu N'Dour, Phil Palmer, Tony Levin and others.
From then until 1994 he went on a series of tours around Italy. In 1995 he produced
Io sono qui, followed by the
Tour Rosso in palasport buildings. In the summer of 1998 his dream of holding concerts in the main Italian stadiums came true. In 1999 he released the album
Viaggiatore sulla coda del tempo.
In 2003, Baglioni released a new album,
Sono io, l'uomo della storia accanto, and won the Lunezia Prize.
Crescendo e cercando and
Tutti qui - Collezione dal 1967 al 2005 followed two years later.
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