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Birth name
  
Luca Bassanese

Name
  
Luca Bassanese

Role
  
Singer

Years active
  
2003–present

Genres
  
Folk rock, World music

Website
  
Official web site


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Born
  
18 December 1975 (age 48) Italy Vicenza, Italy (
1975-12-18
)

Instruments
  
Vocals, guitar, Piano, Harmonica

Labels
  
Venus dischi, Carosello records, Buenaonda Etichetta Discografica

Albums
  
La rivoluzione, Al mercato

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, humanitarian

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Luca Bassanese (born 18 December 1975, Vicenza, Italy) is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, writer and musician, very practicing in social issues. He won the MEI Plate 2015 (Independent Labels Meeting) as best folk music artist, the Recanati Musicultura Award and the Certificate of merit for the Civil Commitment (National Award "Marcello Torre"). Bassanese is one of the most important exponent of the new Italian folk music. His lyrics are both poetic and satiric and denounce the contradictions of his country through an unconventional (original) language.

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Career

Three stages signed the way that Luca Bassanese will decide to begin in his artistic path: the assiduous listening of Fabrizio De André Volume III album, the daily contact with his father harmonica player and the meeting with the composer, author and producer Stefano Florio with whom he begins an artistic and human fellowship that will take him to collaborate in the realization of his albums and his performances. An artist in tune with environmental and civil commitment movements, he has been disclosed to the general public in 2004 when he won the XV Recanati Musicultura Award edition with the piece (song) Confini. After several concerts from the beginning of his artistic career in Italy and the collaboration with National and International artists and musicians such as Antonio Cornacchione, Jacopo Fo and the Original Kocani Orkestar of Macedonia, Luca Bassanese flies to France to promote his sixth album "Popolare Contemporaneo" and on 23 November 2013 he get (achieved) a very big success of public and critic with a concert to the prestigious Cabaret Sauvage in Paris within Le Bal Rital happening.

On 11 December 2013, Bassanese was awarded with the Certificate of merit for the Civil Commitment (National Award Marcello Torre).

In 2014 his album entitled "L'amore (è) sostenibile" argues about the sustenibility issue, inside it the song entitled "La balata dell'emigrante" is dedicated to Italian migrants.

On 17 October 2014 he opens the Grand Soufflet Festival in Bretagne (France), followed by a new band created for the European tour called Tarantella Circus Oschestra.

On 4 October 2015 Luca Bassanese receives the "MEI (Indipendent Labels Meeting) Plate as the best artist for the saveguard of Italian folk music with particular reference to the environmental, cultural and social sustenability issues".

Awards and nominations

  • 2004 – Recanati/Musicultura Award, XV Edition, for the song "Confini”
  • 2013 – Vrban Eco-festival Award "for the continuous research and civil commitment through his music and writing on social and environmental sustainability issues"
  • 2013 – Certificate of merit for the Civil Commitment (National Award "Marcello Torre")
  • 2015 – Best original soundtrack Award "Icilio Sadun" dedicated to Roberta Bartali
  • 2015 – MEI (Independent Labels Meeting) Plate as the best artist for the safeguard of Italian folk music with particular reference to the environmental, cultural, and social sustainability issues
  • Videography

  • A Silva – directed by Stefano Florio
  • Maria – directed by Riccardo Papa
  • Guernica – directed by Stefano Florio
  • Santo Subito! – directed by Stefano Florio
  • Canzone d'amore (contro la violenza sulle donne) – directed by Stefano Florio
  • La leggenda del pesce Petrolio – directed by Stefano Florio, Marco Donazzan, Lorenzo Milan
  • La Canzone del laureato – directed by Stefano Florio
  • Qui si fa l'Italia o si muore – directed by Michele Piazza
  • Signora speranza – directed by Michele Piazza
  • Fuck Austerity! (prima che questo tempo ammazzi l'allegria) – directed by Michele Piazza
  • Ho visto un re – directed by Michele Piazza
  • La ballata dell'emigrante – directed by Francesco Mastronardo
  • La Classe Operaia (Non va più in paradiso) – directed by Francesco Mastronardo
  • Ola ola ola (tu sei Superman, tu hai venduto Peter Pan) – directed by Francesco Mastronardo
  • Theatrical performances

  • L'Italia Dimenticata – with songs of Domenico Modugno dirigé par Stefano Florio
  • Un Nuovo Mondo è Possibile – with Domenico Finiguerra, dirigé par Stefano Florio
  • "A Silva… la storia, la vita e l'arte di tramandarla attraverso la musica" – produced and directed by Stefano Florio
  • References

    Luca Bassanese Wikipedia