Vinicio Capossela
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Italy
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singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
. His style is strongly influenced by US singer and songwriter Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
(Capossela repeatedly recorded his songs with the help of Waits' guitarist, Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot born May 21, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer.His own work has touched on many styles, including no wave, free jazz, and Cuban music. Ribot is also known for collaborating with other musicians, most notably Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, and composer John Zorn.-Biography:Ribot was...
), though it also draws from the traditions of Italian folk music (especially those of Irpinia
Irpinia
Irpinia is a region of the Apennine Mountains around Avellino, a town in Campania, South Italy about 40 km east of Naples...
, the part of Campania
Campania
Campania is a region in southern Italy. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,590 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...
where his family moved from in the 1950s). Capossela's lyrics are highly original and are often inspired by literary sources such as John Fante
John Fante
John Fante was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter of Italian descent. He is perhaps best known for his work, Ask the Dust, a semi-autobiograpical novel about life in and around Los Angeles, California, which was the third in a series of four novels, published between 1938...
, Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...
, Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
and others.
Capossela was born in Hannover (Germany
Germany
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) from Italian parents, moved very early to Emilia Romagna. He has lived in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
since 1987.
Discography
- All'una e trentacinque circa - 1990
- Modì - 1991
- Camera a sud - 1994
- Il ballo di San Vito - 1996
- Liveinvolvo - 1998 - (Live Album)
- Canzoni a manovella - 2000
- L'indispensabile - 2003
- Ovunque proteggi - 2006
- Nel niente sotto il sole - Grand tour 2006 - 2007 - (Live Album)
- Da solo - 2008 - (ITA Platinum 90,000+)
- Solo Show Alive - 2009 - (Live Album)
- The Story-Faced Man - 2010
- La nave sta arrivando - 2011 - (EP)
- Marinai, profeti e balene - 2011
Books by Vinicio Capossela
- Vinicio Capossela, Non si muore tutte le mattine, ISBN 8807016478, Feltrinelli, Milan (2004)
- Vinicio Capossela, Vincenzo Costantino Cinaski, In clandestinità, ISBN 9788807017858, Feltrinelli, Milan (2009)
Books about Vinicio Capossela
- Elisabetta Cucco, Vinicio Capossela. Rabdomante senza requie, ISBN 8886784317, Auditorium, Milan (2005)
- Vincenzo Mollica, Niente canzoni d'amore + DVD Parole e canzoni, ISBN 880618668X, Einaudi, Turin (2006)
- Massimo Padalino, Il ballo di San Vinicio, ISBN 9788862310833, Arcana (2009)