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Italian pop group
Alunni del Sole
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Alunni del Sole in 1972
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Origin
| Naples
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Italy
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Genres
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Years active
| 1968 – 2015
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Past members
| Paolo Morelli
Bruno Morelli
Giulio Leofrigio
Giampaolo Borra
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Alunni del Sole
("Pupils of the Sun") are an Italian pop group, mainly successful in the seventies.
History
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The group, which takes its name from the eponymous novel by
Giuseppe Marotta
, was born in the late sixties when two brothers of
Naples
, Paolo Morelli (piano and vocals) and Bruno Morelli (guitars), sons of a composer and of a pianist, decided moving in Rome to pursue a musical career and to be closer to the record companies; there they formed the group with Giulio Leofrigio (drums) and Giampaolo Borra (bass guitar).
[1]
They were hired by
Renzo Arbore
for the 1969
RAI
television program
Speciale per voi
[1]
and had a first success with the song "Concerto".
[2]
which entered the Italian top ten,
[3]
They got their major hits a few years later, between 1973 and 1978;
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[3]
notably, their song in Neapolitan "'A canzuncella" peaked at the third place on the Italian Hit Parade in 1977,
[3]
and it is considered as the progenitor of the Neapolitan musical new wave happened between late seventies and early Eighties.
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The band won the 1978
Festivalbar
with the song "Liu".
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The group disbanded in 1983, then reunited in 1992.
[2]
References
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- ^
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b
Luciano Gianfranceschi (13 May 2013). "Sangue fucecchiese negli Alunni del Sole".
Il Tirreno
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b
c
d
Enrico Deregibus.
Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana
. Giunti Editore, 2010.
ISBN
8809756258
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b
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Dario Salvatori.
Storia dell'Hit Parade
. Gramese, 1989.
ISBN
8876054391
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Vittorio Paliotti.
Storia della canzone napoletana
. Newton Compton, 1992.
ISBN
8854100668
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External links
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Performers
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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Songs
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1960s
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1970s
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1980s
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1990s
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- "Sotto questo sole"
- "Quattro amici"
- "Mare mare"
- "Il battito animale"
- "Io muoio di te"
- "Tieni il tempo"
- "
Piu bella cosa
"
- "Che male c'e"
- "Io no"
- "Un raggio di sole"
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2000s
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- "Qualcosa di grande"
- "Ti prendo e ti porto via"
- "Tutti vogliono viaggiare in prima"
- "
Un'emozione per sempre
"
- "Il grande Baboomba"
- "Lascia che io sia"
- "Happy Hour"
- "Parlami d'amore"
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