Fio Zanotti

Fio Zanotti
Born 20 November 1949 (1949-11-20) (age 66)
Bologna, Italy
Occupation producer, arranger, conductor, composer, musician

Fio Zanotti (born Fiorenzo Zanotti on 20 November 1949) is an Italian record producer, arranger, conductor, composer and multi-instrumentalist.

Born in Bologna, Zanotti graduated from the Conservatory of his hometown as a conductor.[1] His first musical experiences were as an accordionist in the Linetti Orchestra and as the organist in the musical group Judas.[2] The year 1980 was the turning point of his career when he started, during a tour, a long collaboration with Loredana Berté.[1][2] From then Zanotti started collaborating with a great number of notable Italian artists and groups, including Pooh (to whom he produced and arranged many of their albums from the mis-1980s), Zucchero Fornaciari, Adriano Celentano, Vasco Rossi, Renato Zero, Francesco De Gregori, Spagna, Claudio Baglioni, Anna Oxa, Fiordaliso, Gianluca Grignani.[1][2] In the 1990s he was a member of the supergroup Adelmo e i suoi Sorapis.[1] From the late 1990s he participated as a conductor in numerous RAI television programs .[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Enrico Deregibus. Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. ISBN 8809756258.
  2. 1 2 3 Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.

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