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Artist
Enzo Gragnaniello
12+ albums
neapolitanworldtraditional mediterranean musicitalian traditional musicworld-jazz
about
One amongst the most outstanding representative of a complex cultural renovation in Naples, namely in its song traditon, Enzo was born the 24 Oct. 1954 in vico Cerriglio, perhaps the narrowest vicolo over all Napoli. He was teen in the docks’ quartiere Porto, doing all kind of jobs. Then he’ll bring Americans in night clubs. At 18 his early compositions: popular songs of love and rage (as he’ll title an album 26 years later). In 1977 he forms the “Banchi nuovi” group, whose name is the same as the “organised unemployed” committee Enzo belonged to, and represents a novel approach to the popular roots of the great, sublime Neapolitan tradition. Early albums: * 1983 - Enzo Gragnaniello (DDD, 25738) * 1985 - Salita Trinità degli Spagnoli (DDD, 26459) - this is where he actually lives, in the famous, for good and bad, risky Quartieri Spagnoli: just upside Via Roma on the last Vomero hill slopes. Enzo's new blood enters as a shock into such a long but orthodox, repetitive and a bit sleepy tradition (with such exceptions as Roberto Murolo "custode della tradizione" on the one hand, and pop injections by Peppino di Capri on the other); his harsh voice is echoing blues singers. 15 other albums will follow, with a language shift from Neapolitan to Italian as well, from 1993. In 1986 and 1990 he wins the Premio Tenco for the best song in “dialect”; and best song in October 1999. He has been one of the main authors for the great interpreter Mia “Mimì” Martini (in many respects the gr
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