Giovanni "Tata" Giacobetti (24 June 1922 - 2 December 1988) was one of the singers of Quartetto Cetra

Quartetto Cetra

Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and...

, a very famous Italian

Italy

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 vocal quartet.

Biography

Born in Rome

Rome

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, Tata Giacobetti was a self-taught musician. He sang at the students' parties at the time when he attended scenography

Scenography

-Usage:Whilst also aligned with the professional practice of the scenographer, it is important to distinguish the individual elements that comprise the 'design' of a performance event from the term 'scenography' which is as an artistic perspective concerning the visual, experiential and spatial...

 classes at the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. In 1940 he founded a vocal quartet called Quartetto Egie

Quartetto Egie

Quartetto Egie was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during 1940s.It formed in Rome in 1940. The four singers were Tata Giacobetti, Iacopo Jacomelli, Enrico Gentile e Enrico De Angelis. The name EGIE came from their initials....

, that changed line-up and name twice, becoming Quartetto Ritmo

Quartetto Ritmo

Quartetto Ritmo was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Egie, after Iacopo Jacomelli left the formation...

 first and then Quartetto Cetra

Quartetto Cetra

Quartetto Cetra, or simply I Cetra, was an Italian vocal quartet established during the 1940s.The group originated from the previous Quartetto Ritmo following the replacement of one singer. Felice Chiusano filled the vacancy left by Enrico Gentile and joined Tata Giacobetti, Virgilio Savona and...

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As part of Quartetto Cetra, Giacobetti's show business

Show business

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 career lasted for over forty years. He was singer and actor for radio

Radio

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, stage

Stage (theatre)

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, TV, cinema

Film

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 and advertising

Advertising

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Besides singing, he was the group's lyricist

Lyricist

A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

, while Virgilio Savona

Virgilio Savona

Antonio Virgilio Savona was one of the members of the Italian vocal group, the Quartetto Cetra.-Biography:Antonio Savona was born at Juventus, Italy. His artistic career had a very early start. In 1926, aged 6, he began studying music...

, also a member of the quartet, composed the music. They worked together for four decades and produced hundreds of songs which made up Quartetto Cetra's vast repertoire.

Tata Giacobetti also wrote lyrics for famous Italian composers of that era, such as Gorni Kramer

Gorni Kramer

Gorni Kramer was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.- Biography :He was born Kramer Gorni at Rivarolo Mantovano . Despite the exotic sound of Gorni Kramer in Italian language, which lead part of his audience to believe he was a foreigner or had adopted a fancy pseudonym, it was his...

, Giovanni D'Anzi

Giovanni D'Anzi

Giovanni D'Anzi was an Italian songwriter.D'Anzi was born in Milan. In 1935 he wrote music and lyrics of "O mia bela Madonina" , a song dedicated to his hometown which soon became very popular and a sort of unofficial city anthem.Between 1930s and 1950s Giovanni D'Anzi and Alfredo Bracchi formed a...

, Armando Trovajoli.

He died in Rome in 1988.