UMBERTO BINDI borns on 1932 near Genoa, he begins to study, very young, the piano, graduated at the Conservatory, deals with opera, operetta and little threatre shows, called 'rivista'.
His first song, "T'ho perduto" - (Did I lost), and 1950.
Hired by Ariston (the Sanremo's acting company, the same threatre were Italian Music festival plays ), debuts in Sanremo music festival as author.
Together Paolo Conte, Fabrizio de André, Gino Paoli and Bruno Lauzi he is one of 'genonian's song-writers", a group of musicians comes from Genoa very important for the 'revolution of italian popular music'.
Umberto Bindi ,in particular, is the most prepared musically of them, and his propensity for a stylish melody and lavish arrangements resemble him the singers from classic music.
His best compositions have texts of a fellow countryman, lyricist Giorgio Calabria.
The italian world 'cantautore' (song-writer) was 'letteral' invented for Umberto Bindi!!
That thing is only to explain the importance of Bindi for the italian music world , but... but he was a problem.
Umberto Bindi was a gay, and, in the Italian society of '60's and '70's who was omosexual cannot be a VIP; he couldn't show himself in Tv, that's the big problem for Bindi's career: when, in '70's his sexuality becomes pubblic his career stopped; problem that leads him to die in poverty in 2002.
That big musicians, We found him only on '96, in Sanremo - as You can see in the video n.12 of video playlist belowe -.
That's happen, unfortunately, in Italy, the Country where Vaticano lives, and, still now, who isn't 'normal' has big problems in the 'italian pubblic life', also if the most part of italian society, now, accepted these diversities...
In the last times, thanks to Morgan, one of three judges of Italian X Factor, the musical Tv-show, Umberto Bindi is re-descovered by many teenagers, and that is a really good thing.
