Alberto Camerini

Alberto Camerini (born 16 May 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician, who was commercially most active during the late-1970s and early-1980s.

Alberto Camerini
Born	(1951-05-16) 16 May 1951 (age 74) São Paulo, Brazil
Occupation	singer-songwriter

Life and career

Alberto Camerini was born in São Paulo, Brazil from Italian Jewish parents who had moved to South America a few years earlier. His parents moved back to Milan when Alberto was 11 years old.^[1] Camerini enrolled at the University of Milan, where he became friends with Eugenio Finardi, who introduced him to music;^[2] together with Eugenio Finardi, Camerini started two bands, Il Pacco and L'Enorme Maria. Camerini became a proficient guitarist and he later did session work for musicians such as Patty Pravo, Stormy Six, Fausto Leali and Eugenio Finardi himself.^[1][2]

Camerini started his solo career in 1976, with the single "Pane quotidiano" and three albums that proposed an original mix between rock and Brazilian music.^[1] In the eighties Camerini initiated a successful collaboration with lyrics author and record producer Roberto Colombo. Inspired by the krautrock movement that was dominant in Europe at the time, Camerini had a significant commercial success with a number of synthpop hits, particularly with the songs "Rock 'n' roll robot" and "Tanz bambolina".^[1][2] In 1984 Camerini participated to the Sanremo Music Festival where he finished 16th. Following the lukewarm reception to his 1986 album Angeli in Blue Jeans, Camerini took a break from music for about a decade.^[1][3] In 1995 Camerini reprised his career and recorded the album Dove l'arcobaleno arriva.

Discography

Selected singles

• 1976 – "Pane quotidiano"
• 1977 – "Gelato metropolitano"
• 1978 – "Sciocka"
• 1980 – "Sintonizzati con me"
• 1980 – "Serenella"
• 1981 – "Rock 'n' roll robot"
• 1982 – "Tanz bambolina"
• 1982 – "Questo amore"
• 1983 – "Computer capriccio"
• 1984 – "La bottega del caffè"
• 1986 – "Va bene così"

Studio albums

• 1976 – Cenerentola e il pane quotidiano
• 1977 – Gelato metropolitano
• 1978 – Comici cosmetici
• 1980 – Alberto Camerini
• 1981 – Rudy e Rita
• 1982 – Rockmantico
• 1986 – Angeli in blue jeans
• 1995 – Dove l'arcobaleno arriva
• 2001 – Cyberclown
• 2005 – Kids Wanna Rock