Mario Lavezzi

Mario Lavezzi
Mario Lavezzi
	Lavezzi at the Sanremo Music Festival 2018
Born	Bruno Mario Lavezzi; 8 May 1948 (age 77); Milan, Italy
Occupation	singer-songwriter

Bruno Mario Lavezzi (born 8 May 1948) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and guitarist.

Life and career

Born in Milan, he studied piano and guitar at the Scuola Civica di Milano.^[1] He started his career in 1963, as the singer and guitarist for the band The Trappers.^[2]^[3] In 1966, following the dissolution of the band, he replaced Riki Maiocchi in the I Camaleonti until 1968, when he had to leave the band after being drafted into the Italian army.^[2]^[3] In 1969 he debuted as a composer with the Dik Dik hit "Il primo giorno di primavera".^[2] In 1970 he co-founded the pop-rock group Flora Fauna e Cemento, then in 1974 he was part of the progressive rock musical project Il Volo.^[2]^[3] In the second half of the 1970s Lavezzi started a solo career as singer-songwriter;^[4] he also started collaborating as a composer and a record producer for several albums of Loredana Bertè.^[2]^[3] He later wrote songs for many notable artists, including Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Anna Oxa, Spagna, Marcella Bella, Ornella Vanoni, Fiorella Mannoia,^[2]^[3]^[5] and scored the 1984 Carlo Vanzina comedy film Amarsi un po', which starred Tahnee Welch.

Lavezzi is the uncle of Italo-disco one hit wonder Diana Est.

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^ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Franco Mondini (5 November 1991). ""Passionalità", Lavezzi con i versi di Costanzo". La Stampa. No. 247. p. 23.
^ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 Eddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 978-8863462296.
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^ m.v. (2004-04-23). ""Passionalità", Lavezzi con i versi di Costanzo". La Stampa. No. 112. p. 34.