David Riondino
David Riondino is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer.
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. 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. 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.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. In 1987 he released his third album Tango dei miracoli, whose booklet was illustrated by Milo Manara.
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.
Filmography
To Love the Damned The Night of the Shooting Stars Kamikazen: [Last Night in Milan] Zanzibar Cavalli si nasce La cattedra Ilona Arrives with the Rain Cuba Libre – Velocipedi ai tropici Donna selvaggia Vado e torno L'erba proibita Viva Zapatero! L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizioDiscography
- 1979 – David Riondino
- 1980 – Boulevard
- 1987 – Tango dei miracoli
- 1989 – Racconti picareschi
- 1991 – Non svegliate l'amore
- 1994 – Temporale
- 1995 – ''Quando vengono le ballerine?''