Italian comic band, formed by the musician, actor and cartoonist Claudio "Greg" Gregori and by the actor Max Paiella. Since 2002, they have participated in several italian tv programmes like "Mmmmh!", "Bla bla bla", "Maurizio Costanzo Show" and "Suonare stella".
In the field of movie soundtracks, the neorealistic cinema found in Cicognini an absolute protagonist. The international success of "Sciuscià" ("Shoeshine") for which he signed the score that made him famous all over the world. Besides neorealistic cinema he composed the scores for immortal masterpieces of the italian comedy. A title for all? "Don Camillo" ("The little world of Don Camillo") by Duvivier.
Giorgio Giampà was born in 1982. He composed music for italian and international films, documentaries and short movies presented in Toronto, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, San Francisco, Busan, Goteborg and other film festivals.
He was nominated at the Golden Globes for the movie "Il sud è niente" by Fabio Mollo and he won the prize for best soundtrack with the movie "Wake me up" by Guillaume Protsenko.
He was selected in the workshops of the Berlin Festival (Berlin Talent Campus), of the Reykjavik Festival (Transatlantic Lab) and of the Moscow Festival (Generation Campus).
He also worked as producer for the short movie "Champs des Possibles" (Venice Festival 2015) and for the documentary "La natura delle cose" (Locarno Festival 2016).
Father of the italian "canzone", he signs unforgettable hits like "Mamma", "Parlami d'amore Mariù", "Violino Tzigano", "Il tango delle capinere". He composes the score of the firts italian talking movie and for his entire life he is strictly connected with the cinema. Brave and talented business man, he founds the Bixio Publishing Group and the recording labels Cinevox Record and Bubble Records.
Deeply connected with film music since his very early years, he starts his careeer collaborating with the director Silvano Agosti. He works with the songwriter Fabrizio De Andrè in creating the album "Non al denaro né all'amore né al cielo". He meets Marco Bellocchio, who asks him to compose the score for "Nel nome del padre" ("In the Name of the Father"). This experience consecrates Piovani as a soundtrack composer and leads him to meet with main italian directors, from Fellini to Monicelli, for whom he writes the score of "Il Marchese del Grillo" ("The Marquis of Grillo"). In 1999 he wins the Academy Award for the soundtrack of "La vita è bella" ("Life is Beautiful") by Roberto Benigni.
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