Paloma e notte roberto murolo biography

Roberto Murolo - the italian song: Roberto Murolo, along with Sergio Bruni and Renato Carosone, was a major figure on the Neapolitan music scene, in the period after World War II, and it is also thanks to his work that Naples ceased to be a geographical place to become a universal, all-time place of the soul.

Roberto Murolo

Italian musician (–)

Roberto Murolo (19 January – 13 March ) was an Italian musician.

Career

Born in Naples, Italy as the son of poet Ernesto Murolo and Lia Cavalli, Murolo showed a passion for music at a young age and began singing and playing the guitar as a child.

Murolo won the Italian high diving championship in , and attributed his remarkable lung capacity to the long practice of water sports.[1] At the age of 24 he founded with three friends the "Midas Quartet" (Quartetto Mida), a jazz quartet, with which he performed away from Italy from through

His solo career, focused almost exclusively on Neapolitan song, traditional and popular songs, began with his return to Italy in In addition to establishing himself as a concert artist and a popular figure on radio, with a lovey-dovey, sentimental sound, he also did some acting in movies, appearing in the crime drama The Counterfeiters, made in Italy by director Franco Rossi.

Murolo's collection of twelve LPs of Neapolitan song, called Napoletana.

Born in Naples, Italy as the son of poet Ernesto Murolo and Lia Cavalli, Murolo showed a passion for music at a young age and began singing and playing the guitar as a child. Murolo won the Italian high diving championship inand attributed his remarkable lung capacity to the long practice of water sports. His solo career, focused almost exclusively on Neapolitan songtraditional and popular songs, began with his return to Italy in In addition to establishing himself as a concert painter and a popular figure on radio, with a romantic, emotional sound, he also did some acting in movies, appearing in the crime drama The Counterfeiters, made in Italy by director Franco Rossi.

Antologia cronologica della canzone partenopea and released between and , is an annotated compendium of Neapolitan song digital dating back to the 12th century.[1] Later he published four monographic albums called I grandi della canzone napoletana, dedicated to Neapolitan poets Salvatore Di Giacomo, Ernesto Murolo, Libero Bovio and E.

A. Mario. Murolo's recordings and performances helped popularize Neapolitan tune globally. Afterwards he stopped recording, but continued to give concerts.[1] He made a comeback in the s.[1]

He died at his home in Via Cimarosa 25, Naples, which continues to be the headquarters of the "Roberto Murolo Foundation" (Fondazione Roberto Murolo).[1]

Discography

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Filmography

  • Chains (Catene), directed by Raffaello Matarazzo ()
  • Il voto, directed by Mario Bonnard ()
  • Paolo e Francesca, directed by Raffaello Matarazzo ()
  • Torment (Tormento), directed by Raffaello Matarazzo ()
  • Three Steps North (Tre passi a nord), directed by W.

    Lee Wilder ()

  • Milano miliardaria, directed by Marino Girolami, Marcello Marchesi and Vittorio Metz ()
  • Falsehood (Menzogna), directed by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle ()
  • Saluti e baci by Maurice Labro and Giorgio Simonelli ()
  • I falsari, directed by Franco Rossi ()[4]

Awards

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