Album Tracks:
01. Track One 02. Track Two 03. Track Three 04. Track Four 05. Track Five 06. Track Six 07. Track Seven 08. Track Eight 09. Track Nine 10. Track Ten 11. Track Eleven 12. Track Twelve 13. Track Thirteen 14. Track Fourteen
Biography:
Rino Gaetano was a famous Italian satirical singer/songwriter of the 1970s. When young Rino was ten years old, his family moved from Crotone (Calabria) to Rome in search of work. The singer would spend the rest of his life in the capital city, but his humble Southern roots would be in evidence throughout his career. Indeed, Gaetano was predisposed from the start to assume the role of the outsider, a public persona that he constructed, artfully and gleefully, in a series of iconoclastic records and stage appearances. His irreverent and idiosyncratic lyrics and singing style were at odds with both the commercial mainstream and the politically engaged Italian artists of the time, so Gaetano`s early recordings, 1973`s single "I Love You Marianna" and 1974`s album Ingresso Libero, failed to make waves. Recognition finally came with the song "Il Cielo è Sempre Più Blu," a typically corrosive description of Italian society that unexpectedly made it to the top of the charts in 1975. Between 1976 and 1980 Gaetano recorded a string of successful albums (Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico, Aida, Nuntereggae Più, Resta Vile Maschio Dove Vai), that cemented his reputation as Italy`s foremost ironic com ...
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