David Riondino

David Riondino (born 10 June 1952) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer.

David Riondino
Background information
Birth name	Danod Riondino
Born	(1952-06-10) 10 June 1952 (age 73) Florence, Italy
Occupations	Guitarist singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals guitar
Years active	1974–present
Website	www.davidriondino.com

Life and career

Born in Florence, Italy, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s as a member of the musical ensemble Collettivo Victor Jara.^[1][2] In 1979 he made his solo debut with the album David Riondino, and the same year he was the opening act in a series of concerts by Fabrizio De André and Premiata Forneria Marconi, including those in Florence and Bologna, where De Andre's very famous live album Fabrizio De André in concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM was recorded.^[1][2] In 1980, following his second album, Boulevard, with arrangements by Shel Shapiro, he focused on his live activity, where he mixed improvisation, music and cabaret.^[1]

Starting from the second half of the 1980s Riondino enjoyed a large success thanks to the semi-regular participation to the Canale 5 show Maurizio Costanzo Show, where he used to improvise surreal songs imitating the style of the Brazilian singer-songwriters.^[1][2][3] In 1987 he released his third album Tango dei miracoli, whose booklet was illustrated by Milo Manara.^[1]

Riondino's variagated career includes films, TV series, comedy plays as well as novels, poems and several collaborations with newspapers and magazines as a humorist and a semi-serious columnist.^[1][2][3]

Filmography

• To Love the Damned (1980)
• The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
• Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan (1987)
• Zanzibar (TV, 1988)
• Cavalli si nasce (1988)
• La cattedra (1991)
• Ilona Arrives with the Rain (1996)
• Cuba Libre – Velocipedi ai tropici (1997, also director)
• Donna selvaggia (1998)
• Vado e torno (TV, 1998)
• L'erba proibita (2002)
• Viva Zapatero! (2005)
• L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa (2009)
• Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio (2011)
• The Invisible Player (2016)

Discography

• 1979 – David Riondino (Ultima Spiaggia, ZPLS 34061)
• 1980 – Boulevard (RCA Italiana, PL 31547)
• 1987 – Tango dei miracoli (L'ALTernativa, ALT 003)
• 1989 – Racconti picareschi (CGD, CGD 20932)
• 1991 – Non svegliate l'amore (CGD, CGD 9031 74383-1)
• 1994 – Temporale (CGD, CGD 4509 96185-2)
• 1995 – Quando vengono le ballerine? (Rossodisera Records-Sony, RDS 480351)

Books

• Rombi e milonghe. João Mesquinho e altre canzoni. Feltrinelli, 1993. ISBN 88-07-81231-2.
• Viaggio a Cuba, with Valerio Peretti Cucchi. Zelig, 1997. ISBN 88-86471-49-1.
• Epos 92–97. L'Italia in terzine da Tangentopoli all'Ulivo, Grugliasco, Edizioni Arti grafiche San Rocco, 1998. ISBN 88-900156-1-6.
• Rumba. Itinerari cubani al ritmo della capitale, con Roberto Perini, Milano, Lizard, 1999. ISBN 88-86456-70-0.
• Dante Inferno, with Sandro Lombardi, con CD, Milano, Garzanti, 2002. ISBN 88-11-12007-1.
• Cantata dei pastori immobili. Racconto di un presepe vivente, illustrations by Sergio Staino. Donzelli, 2004. ISBN 88-7989-900-7.
• John Martin. Il trombettiere di Apricale. Da Garibaldi a Custer, with Claudio Nobbio. Fratelli Frilli, 2007. ISBN 978-88-7563-312-7.
• Firenze. Effequ, 2013. ISBN 978-88-89647-85-1.