Among the most famous in the history of Italian songwriting, Rino Gaetano (born in Crotone on October 29, 1950 and died in Rome on June 2, 1981) was a provocative and irreverent multifaceted author and musician.
Ironic poet and juggler with an innate theatricality, Rino Gaetano has always had a strong and marked comic-political trend expressly visible in the musical art he created.
Here are some of them the best songs by Rino Gaetano e the most famous phrases.
Who is Rino Gaetano: the #RinoGaetanoDay
Rino Gaetano is a celebrity of Italian music and has written so many songs in his course career as a songwriter, many of which have remained in the collective imagination of Italian music after his death.
For this reason, every year, in memory of the mythical character who went to Sanremo in tails with an infinite amount of “honor” medals and sneakers pinned on, we celebrate the day of his mysterious death (June 2) also online , under the hashtag heading #RinoGaetanoDay.
Her influence on mass culture it has been huge over the years and still persists today. Thanks to his irreverence towards trends and fashion, Rino Gaetano was an innovator and precursor of the musical genre of the impertinent and cheeky Italian singer-songwriter.
The best songs of Rino Gaetano
If we had to choose between them all the most beautiful and famous songs by Rino Gaetano, the list could be long. Some of the best songs are:
- But the sky is getting bluer
Probably, But the sky is getting bluer is the most famous song ever by Rino Gaetano. The text consists of a list of events and characters that are sewn to a political background to which the author often referred.
- Nuntereggae more
Always current, Nuntereggae more is what could be called the “manifesto song” by Rino Gaetano, with its very long text enumerating Italian personalities and political parties that the author “No longer holds”.
- Aida
One of the most famous songs by Rino Gaetano who wants to be an opportunity to retrace the entire Italian history of the 20th century through the imagination of a woman named, precisely, Aida.
- Gianna
The irreverence of the singer-songwriter also turns with Gianna to a female character. Perhaps, this is the most famous song (among those referring to women) by Rino Gaetano with the opening words: “Gianna, Gianna, Gianna supported theses and illusions”.
- The violets faded
With The violets faded we find ourselves in the flow of consciousness between love story and historical surrealism always dear to the author.
- Berta filava
The Berta rowing to which Rino Gaetano refers in the song of the same name derives from a popular saying: “the time in which Berta was spinning has passedWhich was used colloquially in common jargon to point out the difference between present and past.
- There Maria
With his text apparently full of frivolous lightness (and always under the pretext of the female character), There Maria it is – once again – marked by the surreal and musically more catchy than ever.
- For example, I like the south
A poetic masterpiece that marries the music of the Italian singer-songwriter, a song that perhaps ranks among the least famous, as it is more reflective, For example, I like the south it is undoubtedly one of the most melancholy and least “easygoing” that Rino Gaetano has written.
- My brother is an only child
Many are the themes addressed in this song, from discomfort to marginalization. Mostly, My brother is an only child speaks of the ever-present difficulty of communicating in society and of a theme extremely dear to the author: the refusal for approval.
The most famous phrases of Rino Gaetano
The poetics of the Italian singer-songwriter can be summed up in the following quote: “Dreaming of life, living a dream, singing to have nothing”. Nothing, apart from the music that has been perpetrated over the years, leaving an unmistakable echo to the political and artistic personality of Rino Gaetano: here are some of the most famous phrases of his songs.
I look for in all the songs
and in a sparrow on the branch
a starting point for the revolution.
(Seeking, 1978)
Blue car
Blue blood
Blue skies
Blue love
Rock and blues
[Nun te reggae più]
(Nuntereggaepiù, 1978)
For example, I like to steal
Ripe pears on the branches if I’m hungry
But when I drink I’m ready to pay
Water, which in that land is more than bread
(For example I like the south, 1981)
Suppose one morning
you get up and love me.
(Suppose a love, 1974)
And when your mind takes flight
you realize that you are left alone.
[TiTiTiTi1980)[TiTiTiTi1980)
The summer that came with clouds swollen with hope
New loves to be placed under the sun
The burning sun, long silicon beaches
And you grew, you grew more and more beautiful
The violets bloomed
And the sun was beating down on me
And you took my hand
While I
I waited
(The violets faded, 1976)
Gradually you realize that the wind
It blows on your face and steals a smile from you
The beautiful season that is about to end
It blows on your heart and steals your love
Little by little it melts into tears
That sweet memory faded by time
When you lived in a room with me
There was no money but a lot of hope.
(A mano a mano, 1978)
If this summer we go to the sea, alone, money and lots of love,
and we will live in terror of our silverware being stolen,
it is more prose than poetry.
(Nuntereggaepiù, 1978)
Pick my rose of love
Give your perfume to people
Take my rose of nothing
(Pick my love rose, 1976)
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