Biography
Francesco Gabbani is an Italian singer, representing Italy at Eurovision 2017.
Francesco Gabbani was born 09.09.1982 in the Italian town of Carrara, in the Tuscany region. The boy's family owned the store of musical instruments, so the boy met with music still in infancy.
As a child, Francesco seized the game on the drum installation, but soon the boy realized that he needed to master another tool to compose his own songs. Gabbani chose the guitar, and already in his youthful age mastered the piano and bass guitar.
Music
At 18, Gabbani, a student of a classic lyceum in Carrara, became a member of the Pop Rock of the TRIKOBALTO group. The group also entered the striker Matteo Zorké and guitarist Nikolo Zorké, the younger brother Matteo.
The history of the group can be called successful: the first album will be perceived extremely positively, two singled into the rotation of the main music TV channels of Italy, musicians were not invited to television broadcasts, and in 2007, the trio took part in HEINEKEN Jammin 'Festival, the annual music festival in Venice.
In 2007, TRIKOBALTO was played by heating from the famous group Oasis in Milan, and three years later, the musicians opened a concert of the popular British rock band "Stereophonics" in Milan.
In 2010, the TRIKOBALTO group released the second album with which the musicians went to the tour in France. After the exit of the clip to the song "Preghiera Maledetta" in the spring of the same year, Gabbani left the group to start the solo career.
In 2011, Francesco released the debut singles "Estate" and "Maledetto Amore". The first album of the musician called "Greitist IZ" came out on May 27, 2014, taking the 59th place in the Italian landscape chart.
In 2016, Gabbani, who signed a contract with a record company BMG Rightsmanagement, won the 66th Festival Di Sanremo Song Competition in the Novichki Festival.
Surprisingly, the fate of the artist could have to work out otherwise: at one stage of the Gubbani competition, he dropped out of the competition, losing the singer Miele, but soon the voting error was revealed. The results of re-voting allowed the musician to go into the next round, and then win a loud victory.
Francesco's song "AMEN" received a prize of critics Mii Martini, Sergio Bardotti Prize for the best text and the Emanuel Lazzati Award. Subsequently, the song took 4 place in the song Chart Italy, having received the hot recognition of the public.
On February 12, 2016, the artist released the second studio album "Eternamente Ora", which took the 18th place in the Italian album chart. The album entered the song "AMEN" and eight previously unnecessary tracks.
In the same year, the musician wrote music to the Italian comedy "Poor, but Rich" director Fausto Bricezi with Christian De Sika, Enrico Brignano, Luce John and Ludovik Komelo in high roles. The world premiere of the film took place on December 15, 2016.
Also this year, Francesco managed to work with other performers. In particular, together with the Italian composer Fabio Ilaccua Gabbani wrote the song "L'Amore SA" for singer Francesco Rang.
In the autumn of the same year, together with the Italian composer and producer Celso Valley Francesco created the song "Il Bambino Col Fucile" ("A child with a rifle"), which entered the second joint studio album of the actor and singer Adriano Celentano and the performer Mina Mazini.
Eurovision 2017
In February 2017, Gabbani again became the winner of the San Remo festival - this time, among experienced artists. Francesco became the first performer who received the main award of the musical festival two times in a row.The source of inspiration for the creation of the song "Occidentali's Karma", with which Gabbani performed at the competition, served as the book Desmond Morris "Naked Monkey": the text is ridiculed and it is criticized by the progress in progress, love for selfie and a total passion for eastern practices.
The song immediately became a hit number 1 in Italy, in Charter Malta, the song took 3rd place, in the Swiss Charter - 4th place. Also, the song was popular in iTunes at least 15 European countries.
Funny, bright video for a song in a couple of months from the date of exit scored almost 100 million views. A few weeks in a row, the clip was in the top 100 most viewed music video of the world on Youtube.
After the victory of the musician in San Remo Gabbani received a proposal to submit Italy at the Eurovision-2017 competition in Kiev. For the competition was chosen such a popular song "Occidentali's Karma" - True, a song was reduced to 3 minutes and supplemented by an English fragment.
Personal life
The last five years Gabbani meets with Tattoo Master Dalila Jarddell. Like Francesco, Dalila was born and grew up in Carrara. On the body of the girl there are several large tattots, but the Gabban has no one.
"After so many years of living together, I do not imagine my life without Dalili," Gabban shared in one of his interviews.According to the recognition of the artist, the secret of their relationship in strong quarrels and absolute loyalty:
"Relationships should be based on mutual trust. I would never betray my soul mate. If you want to spend a fun, it is better to break up immediately. "
The singer admitted that at the beginning of their relationship he was extremely quick-tempered - during one quarrel, the musician even broke the guitar. But, according to Gabbani, now it has become much calmer.
Francesco has a bull terrier Hector. Gabbani nourishes gentle feelings for her pet, regularly divided on a page on Facebook photos of a pet and tells about his dog solely as a family member.
Francesco Gabbani now
In April 2017, Gabbani announced on social networks that his third Studio Album "Magellano" will be released on April 28 of the current year.
The album will include a song with which he will perform on Eurovision. From June 19 to September 9, 2017, a few concerts in Italy will spend in support of Album Gabbani.
Discography
- 2017 - Magellano.
- 2016 - Eternamente Ora
- 2014 - Greitist IZ