Roby Facchinetti

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If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article., After translating, must be added to the talk page to ensure copyright compliance., For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation., Camillo Ferdinando "Roby" Facchinetti (Bergamo, 1 May 1944) is an Italian musician, composer, singer and keyboard player of the Pooh (band). With the Pooh, he signed some of the greatest Italian hits, like "Piccola Katy" (1968), "Tanta voglia di lei" and "Pensiero" (1971), "Noi due nel mondo e nell'anima" (1972), "Parsifal" (1973), "Dammi solo un minuto" (1977), "Chi fermerà la musica" (1981), "Uomini soli" (1990), "La donna del mio amico (1996)." Early life and family edit: Camillo Facchinetti has been nicknamed "Roby" since childhood due to his short height. The nickname comes from the term Bergamo "robìn" (something little, small). He spent his childhood in his native village, Astino, an area of Bergamo. His grandfather is a composer and conductor of a choir. At age 4 he started playing a harmonica. Then at the age of 8, he studied accordion and two years later, studied piano. At age of 11 he started composing his first songs. His background in music led him to be part of several ensembles in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In 1970 he married Mirella Costa and they had two daughters: Alessandra (now known stylist, who is dedicated the Pooh self-titled album in 1972) and Valentina (1977). Later in 1979, he divorced his wife and lived with Rosaria Longoni. He and Rosaria had a son, Francesco Facchinetti, who became a singer and showman. After this cohabitation, in 1986, he met Giovanna Lorenzi and they married in 1989. They had two children: Roberto (1987) and Giulia (1991). Before The Pooh edit: His first group, "I Monelli" (the puckish boys) came out in 1958 and performed in unpretentious dance hall of Bergamo. After rising the ranks, the group performs at the Grand Hotel of Rimini and then meets Paolo Bacilieri, manager of "La Stalla" (the cowshed), a renowned joint in Rimini. The outcome of the audition is the engagement for 20 days in that joint, then renewed throughout the season thanks to the success and the consents obtained. Moved in 1964 to the "Pierfilippi e Les Copains" band, Roby wandered around Italy until one evening at the "Sporting Club" in Bologna, in the early 1965, the band played along with the Pooh. At the end of the exhibition, Roby was asked to join that group, as there was the need to replace Bob Gillot, an English guy who created some problems. He accepts, with the blessing of his old band, choosing as nickname "Roby," because his real name wasn't enough "rock." The Pooh edit: In 1966 the Pooh are still an "experimental" group, that has recently changed the organization, after the first five amateurish years under the name "Jaguars" when the young Facchinetti in May of the same year joined the group. He quickly became the composer of most of the pieces. The first non-cover song is in fact written by the couple "Facchinetti-Negrini." It is "Brennero '66," that competed to the "Festival delle Rose" in 1966, but had no success. Besides being the author, Roby is also its interpreter. The song is censored by RAI, and it's is also ordered the group to change the title and edit the text, under penalty of exclusion from the competition. So it becomes "Le campane del silenzio" (the bells of silence) in a radio performance disturbed by technical problems that avoided the listening. It placed in last place. Facchinetti's role in the group is predominant. He's the main author of the music: more than half of the songs were composed by him. Roby, who is considered the leader of the group even off the stage, besides being very prepared in terms of music, has an amazing, powerful and clean voice, which he shows out very often in recurring "solos." Until 1971, the musical compositions are all revised by him even if the interpretation is assigned to Dodi Battaglia or Riccardo Fogli. Roby has the pleasure of singing with Valerio Negrini, "La fata della luna" (1969) one of the most important songs of the album Memorie, already published the previous year as "La leggenda della Luna" in the album Contrasto (previously sung only by Roby). We recognize the voice of Facchinetti in other songs of that period as "Per quelli come noi," "Il cane d'oro" and "Mr. Jack." The first great success of the group is written by Roby, "Piccola Katy", side B of the less fortunate "In silenzio", 45-record published in 1968. Follow other less important single before coming to the songs that open up the world rankings for the quartet. In couple with the trusty lyric-writer Valerio Negrini, born "Tanta voglia di lei", "Pensiero", "Noi due nel mondo e nell'anima", "Nascerò con te", "Quando una lei va via", "Io e te per altri giorni", "Infiniti noi", "Parsifal." In the first album released by Pooh with the new label "CBS", in 1971, Roby was the only composer of the music and he sings only the final stanza of the song "Opera Prima." Since 1972, with the release of "Alessandra" (album and song dedicated to the Facchinetti's newborn daughter)also Dodi Battaglia begins writing and composing songs for the group. Even singing in the single "Cosa si può dire di te", "Mio padre, una sera" and alternating with Dodi in "La nostra età è difficile", Roby's voice is still in the background, dominated first by Riccardo Fogli and then by Dodi Battaglia. In the album Parsifal, which celebrates the final formation of the group, Roby carves out some vocal parts in "Lei e lei" (written by Dodi Battaglia), "L'anno, il posto, l'ora" and "Solo cari ricordi", alternating with Dodi and Red Canzian in the last two songs. Moreover, in this album there's the important achievement of his compositional skills, clearly evident in "Parsifal"; ability that we find in years to come in "Il tempo, una donna, la città", "Padre del fuoco, padre del tuono, padre del nulla", "Il ragazzo del cielo", "Viva", "Grandi speranze", "Il giorno prima", "Puoi sentirmi ancora", "Dove comincia il sole", to instance some songs. With the release of the single "Per te qualcosa ancora", the lead singer of the group becomes Roby, who then interprets the most successful songs of the decade, starting with "Linda", "Pierre", "Dammi solo un minuto", "Cercami" and "Ci penserò domani." In 1984 he released "Roby Facchinetti," solo album recorded with British musicians and the symphony orchestra of Monaco) and in 1993 "Fai col cuore", the second solo album recorded with a symphony orchestra, more introspective than the previous. Both records are strong mark of its culture and compositional skills. His role as a leading voice continues throughout the 1980s and culminates with the victory of Sanremo in 1990, when Roby sang the powerful refrain in "Uomini soli." Afterwards, his role as composer is put side by side by Red and Dodi, while the lyrics begin to be entrusted with greater frequency to Stefano D'Orazio, who writes songs on the musics of Roby Facchinetti important songs as "La donna del mio amico", "Dimmi di sì" (interpreted by D'Orazio). He participated at the 57th edition of the Festival di Sanremo, on the side of his son Francesco, with the song "Vivere normale," based on the theme of love and a father-son relationship. After the first performance, however, they were harshly criticized by Mario Luzzatto Fegiz at the "after-festival," despite the two ranked 8th. Recent activities edit: He wrote the soundtrack for the documentary film about Leonardo da Vinci, "Leonardo chi?", presented in Rome at the Film Festival in 2010. In September 2010 he wanted to perform in Bergamo, in a concert in front of an audience of over 40.000 people, as happened in 2008.

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