Cesare Cremonini in concert

Born in Bologna on 27th March 1980, son of a dietician and a teacher, Cesare is encouraged to study the piano from a young age by his parents, and after a few years is giving small-scale classical music concerts. At the age of 12 he writes his first short stories and love poems, but when he is given Queen’s first album, he abandons his love of classical music and turns to the world of pop/rock.
“I was studying Chopin and Beethoven, then for Christmas my father gave me a Queen album. I realised that there were references to classical music in so many of their songs so I asked my teacher if I could study Bohemian Rapsody. She was happy! That’s how it all started.”
In 1997 he meets the producer Walter Mameli and with him he attempts to set up his own musical project. After nearly two years of intensive work, involving some classmates, he founds Lùnapop. In June 1999 “50 Special” is released on the radio and is immediately a success.
But it is when the album “…Squérez?” comes out that Lùnapop become a phenomenon.
In November 2002, when the Lùnapop dream had finished, he published his first solo album “Bagus” (“everything positive, likeable, pleasant and beautiful” in Indonesian), an album which is clearly a need for positivity and rebirth, as well as the search for new forms of expression which allow him to follow new paths, which intentionally aren’t the same as those which ensured the success of Lùnapop. The bass player Nicola “Ballo” Balestri, from the old line up, chooses to follow the same path, an original, eclectic and charismatic character, who therefore manages to hold his own, despite Cesare’s bubbly personality, which is less and less boyish but rapidly maturing.
The 250,000 copies sold confirm the start of this new experience.
On 10th June 2005 his second album, “Maggese”, is released, a new production experience, which took place entirely in London.
On 24th November 2006, a date strongly desired by Cesare (anniversary of the death of Freddie Mercury), the first live album, called "1+8+24", recorded in Milan during the “Maggese Theatre Tour”, is released.
Between 2007 and 2008 the Mille Galassie Studio was set up, a real artistic-musical factory, with recording studios and rehearsal rooms.
And it was precisely in these studios where “Dicono di me”, the new single of the new phase is recorded, released on 30 May 2008, and then played on the radio.
The new album was recorded during the summer of 2008 in the new studio in Bologna, still under the direction of Walter Mameli and with the collaboration of Steve Orchard.
During its production, a series of videocameras were used for the first time, which documented all phases of production live on the Internet, 24 hours a day.
The album is called “Il Primo Bacio Sulla Luna” (“The First Kiss on the Moon”), and the release date set for 26th September.

Cesare Cremonini in concert.
Grand Hotel Billia 9 p.m.

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