Fausto Leali

Fausto Leali

Fausto Leali in 2006
Background information
Born (1944-10-29) 29 October 1944
Origin Nuvolento (Brescia), Lombardy, Italy
Genres Pop, soul, blues
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter
Years active 1960–present
Labels Music, Jolly, Ri-Fi, Philips Records, CBS, CGD, Itaca, Dischi Ricordi
Website faustoleali.com

Fausto Leali (born 29 October 1944, Nuvolento, Brescia, Italy) is an Italian singer, famous for his rough and aggressive voice, in sharp contrast with Italian melody conventions. Due to his voice, he is nicknamed "The black white" ("Negro bianco").

Biography

Beginnings

Leali began his musical career as a singer in several bands in his native Brescia. His first guitar teacher was Tullio Romano, of the band Los Marcellos Ferial. He released his first single in 1962 as 'Fausto Denis', for the magazine Nuova Enigmistica Tascabile.[1]

Then he joined a group from Alessandria, the Novelty,[2] which had already released an EP in 1961. With the group he managed to obtain a recording contract with the record label,[3] and began to release singles, including two covers of Beatles songs, "Please Please Me" and "Lei ti ama" ("She Loves You").[4] Most of the other tracks released in the period were included in their first album, released in 1965. In 1966 Leali and the band Novelty changed their record label from Music to Ri-Fi.

Success

His first real success was "A chi" in 1967 (an Italian version of an 1954 American song "Hurt", written by Roy Hamilton, which was also issued years later by Francesco De Gregori).[5] "A chi" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[6] In the same year Leali took part for the first time in the television festival Un disco per l'estate, with the song "Senza di te", but he did not progress beyond the first round.[7]

The following year he married the singer Milena Cantù, a former member of Clan Celentano,[3] with whom he had a daughter, Deborah, so named after the success of the homonymous song sung in that year Festival di Sanremo edition with Wilson Pickett (fourth place).

In 1969, 1971 and 1974, he returned to Un disco per l'estate with the songs "Tu non meritavi una canzone", "Si chiama Maria", and "Solo lei". After a period of obscurity, he came back to fame in 1976 with the single, "Io camminero", which reached the top of charts,[8] and in 1980 with a performance of Totò's song "Malafemmena". In late 1980s he had several successful performances at Sanremo festival; in 1987 with "Io amo" (fourth place),[9] 1988 with "Mi manchi" (fifth place)[10] and in 1989 in duet with Anna Oxa, with the song "Ti lascerò" which won the contest.[11] The same year Oxa and Leali represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest with "Avrei voluto".[12] The song placed 9th. He came back to Sanremo in 2002, with "Ora che ho bisogno di te", sung in duet with Luisa Corna,[13] and the next year with the successful, platinum disc single, "Eri tu".[4][14]

After taking part in 2006 in the Rai Due reality show, Music Farm, where he reached the finals,[15] Leali released a new album Profumo e Kerosene, with ten new songs, all in a different musical styling.

Discography

Studio Albums


Live Albums


Compilation Albums


Duets


Singles

  • 1961 Il mondo di Suzie Wong/Veleno dolce
  • 1961 I magnifici sette/Madonnina delle due strade
  • 1961 Lei/Non sono più la tua ragazza
  • 1961 Amarti così/Lo squilibrato
  • 1962 Un bacio e poi/Giochiamo all'amore
  • 1962 Portami tante rose/Non insistere
  • 1963 Please please me/5 giorni
  • 1963 Follie d'estate/Non voglio più piangere
  • 1964 La campagna in città/Ho perduto
  • 1964 Lei ti ama/Danza senza nome
  • 1964 Allora non era amore/Baby Jane
  • 1965 Raccontalo ad un altro/Un bacio in più
  • 1965 Sha la la/Sorriderai
  • 1966 È solo un gioco/Per un momento ho perso te
  • 1966 Mamma perdonami/E non lo scorderai
  • 1967 A chi/Se qualcuno cercasse di te
  • 1967 Senza di te/Oscurità
  • 1967 Senza luce (A whiter shade of pale)/Per un momento ho perso te
  • 1968 Deborah/Non importa se
  • 1968 Angeli negri/Potrai fidarti di me
  • 1968 È colpa sua/Chiudo gli occhi e conto a sei
  • 1969 Un'ora fa/Non l'hai capito
  • 1969 Tu non meritavi una canzone/Sono un uomo che non sa
  • 1969 Portami con te/Sei stata troppo tempo in copertina
  • 1970 Hippy/Una voce amica
  • 1970 Ave Maria no morro/Jasemine
  • 1971 Si chiama Maria/America
  • 1971 Lei/Piango per chi
  • 1972 L'uomo e il cane/La mia primavera
  • 1972 Karany karanué/Buongiorno professore
  • 1973 La bandiera di sole/Il vento lo racconterà
  • 1973 Samantha/Buongiorno professoreò
  • 1973 Quando me ne andrò/Canto per lei
  • 1974 Solo lei/Non andremo mai in paradiso
  • 1975 Amore amaro, amore dolce, amore mio/Dum dum la la
  • 1976 Io camminerò/L'ultima volta
  • 1977 Vierno/Di sera
  • 1978 Tu non mia/Soli non si può
  • 1980 Musica ti amo/A costo di morire
  • 1981 Malafemmena/Il tuo posto
  • 1981 Canzone facile/Non ti arrendi mai
  • 1982 Gente comune/Vado col vento
  • 1983 Canzone amara/Camminando
  • 1984 Io, io senza te/Allora no
  • 1986 Via di qua/Cosa manca (only side A with Mina; side B without Mina)
  • 1987 Io amo/Notte d'amore (side B with Loredana Berté)
  • 1988 Mi manchi/Col tempo
  • 1989 Ti lascerò/Ti lascerò (instrumental) (with Anna Oxa)
  • 1989 Avrei voluto/Avrei voluto (instrumental) (with Anna Oxa)
  • 1992 Perché
  • 1997 Non ami che te
  • 2002 Ora che ho bisogno di te (with Luisa Corna)
  • 2003 Eri tu
  • 2006 Nascerà
  • 2009 Una piccola parte di te
  • 2011 Sono tornato
  • 2016 A chi mi dice (with Mina)

References

  1. ↑ "Speciale Festival Artisti". Radio 105 Network.
  2. ↑ "Biografia". iMusic.
  3. 1 2 "FAUSTO LEALI". Libero.
  4. 1 2 "Biografia". faustoleali.com.
  5. ↑ "Francesco De Gregori". Rockol.
  6. ↑ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 224. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
  7. ↑ "Settimana 8 Aprile 1967". hitparadeitalia.it.
  8. ↑ "Fausto Leali". sanremostory.it.
  9. ↑ "Sanremo 1987 Classifica Sezione Unica/Big/Campioni". festivaldisanremo.com.
  10. ↑ "Sanremo 1988 Classifica Sezione Unica/Big/Campioni". festivaldisanremo.com.
  11. ↑ "Sanremo 1989 Classifica Sezione Unica/Big/Campioni". festivaldisanremo.com.
  12. ↑ "1989". esc-history.com.
  13. ↑ "Sanremo 2002 Classifica Sezione Unica/Big/Campioni". festivaldisanremo.com.
  14. ↑ "Sanremo 2003 Classifica Sezione Unica/Big/Campioni". festivaldisanremo.com.
  15. ↑ "Hit Parade della 7a settimana". musicfarm.rai.it.
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Preceded by
Massimo Ranieri
with "Perdere l'amore"		 Sanremo Music Festival
Winner
1989 		Succeeded by
Pooh
with "Uomini soli"
Preceded by
Luca Barbarossa
with Vivo (Ti scrivo)		 Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest
1989
(with Anna Oxa) 		Succeeded by
Toto Cutugno
with Insieme: 1992
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