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Giovanni Lindo Ferretti
12+ albums
italiansinger-songwriteralternativealternative rockemilia
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Giovanni Lindo Ferretti (born 9 September 1953) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and author born in Cerreto Alpi, in the province of Reggio Emilia, in the western part of the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. After completing his studies and working as a psychiatric nurse for five years, Lindo Ferretti traveled around Europe. CCCP – Fedeli Alla Linea In East Berlin he met Massimo Zamboni, with whom, in 1982, he founded the band CCCP – Fedeli Alla Linea ("CCCP Loyal to the Line"). CCCP – Fedeli Alla Linea soon became a benchmark of the so-called "alternative music" in Italy. The band dissolved in 1990. C.S.I. In 1992, again with Massimo Zamboni and with an original core member of the Italian band Litfiba, Gianni Maroccolo, he founded a new band called Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti (Consortium of Independent Players), also known as C.S.I.. This band continued until 2000, when Massimo Zamboni departed. The bands' names followed the naming of the political entities of the Soviet Union and its dissolution in the late 20th century. "CCCP" is the Cyrillic lettering for SSSR (i.e. USSR), and "CSI" mimics the Italian acronym for the Commonwealth of Independent States. PGR From 2002, he led the band PGR, an abbreviation of Per Grazia Ricevuta ("For a Received Grace"), with Gianni Maroccolo and Giorgio Canali. This is a stock phrase usually attached to mementos acknowledging miraculous divine gifts. The new band name, in fact, marked his own rediscovery of his Catholic r
