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She starts her solo career with the track "Annie Belle", included in the movie soundtrack of "La fine dell'innocenza" ("The End of innocence"). In 1980 she participates in the Sanremo Festival with "Va pensiero", written by Pippo Caruso. She also performed in the track "Mater tenebrarum", composed by Keith Emerson for the movie soundtrack of "Inferno".
He composed several original scores for documentaries, short movies, advertisings, tv series and movies, working with italian and international production companies. He signed the soundtrack for the tv series "Tutti pazzi per amore" and "E' arrivata la felicità", aired by RAI television.
Pianist and composer who wrote soundtracks for plays by Strehler, Gassman, Dario Fo and also for the cinema. It is important to remember his fortunate artistic partnership with the director Luigi Comencini, for whom he signed the beautiful soundtrack of the movie "La Storia" ("History").
Born in Minneapolis, he begins his career as a pianist and keybordist. At the end of the 70s, together with his brother John, he founds the band "The Lounge Lizards" which mixes jazz with punk and new wave influences. He composed several tv and movie soundtracks. In 1988 he meets the italian actor and director Roberto Benigni with whom he starts a long and fortunate collaboration, starting from the soundtrack of "Il piccolo diavolo" ("The Little Devil"). Some tracks from this score were re-used in Academy Awards winners "Silver Linings Playbook" and "American Hustle".
His debut was encouraged by Nino Rota, for whom he was an assistant. Amongst his first film scores, the ones for Nanni Moretti's "Io sono un autarchico" ("I am self sufficient"), "Ecce bombo" and "Sogni d'oro" ("Sweet dreams"). The composer's career takes off thanks to the success of these movies. He writes soundtracks also for directors like Risi, D'Amelio and Bertolucci. The soundtrack of "Sogni d'oro" is released by Cinevox.
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