Alex Baroni
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Alex Baroni, born Alessandro (December 22, 1966 – April 13, 2002) was an Italian
white soul / pop commercial singer, active between 2001 and 2002. He released 4 albums during his lifetime. A fifth posthumous record, a tribute album, and two more collections (one of which double, both of them containing previously unreleased material, and his greatest songs) were out after his death.
, Baroni began his career singing in Milan clubs, during the 1990s, after getting his chemistry
degree at the university, and while still working as a teacher. He sang the backing vocals for many famous artists, including Eros Ramazzotti
, Spagna
and Rossana Casale, before forming his own group, called Metrica, and releasing an album with them. His very first album was called Fuorimetrica, its title, which played with the name of the band, hinted at freedom of expression, irrespective of metrics. Though the record was produced by international star Eros Ramazzotti, and released on the latter's own label, in 1994, it didn't trouble the charts.
In 1997, he was critically acclaimed, winning two prizes, as a newcomer, at the popular Festival di Sanremo, the Festival of the Italian Song, for both best arrangement and his amazing vocal performance (Pavarotti Award), with the self-penned track "Cambiare". He was soon hailed as the "Italian Stevie Wonder
", due to a very high range, and a black-like soulful voice. His second self-titled album, Alex Baroni, which produced many promotional single tracks (including the song presented at the Festival, and a cover version of The Beatles
' classic "In My Life
"), entered the Italian Top 50, peaking at Number 38, and was classified at Number 138 in the final annual chart, making him one of the best newcomers of the year, which was spent by the singer in performing an uncountable number of duets with too many artists to mention.
Later in 1997, he sang for the Italian version of Walt Disney
's Hercules soundtrack, giving teenage Hercules his voice, on the song called "Posso farcela" - the English
version, entitled "Go the Distance", was performed by Michael Bolton
, while the Spanish
rendition was "No importa la distancia", by Latin America
n singer Ricky Martin
.
In 1998, Alex again took part to the Sanremo Festival, this time in a higher category (either called 'Big' or 'Champions'), because of his million-selling 1997 album, but he wasn't able to duplicate the success of the previous year. His new song, "Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio)", rather different from the heartfelt ballad
(seemingly dedicated to his father), which had won him so much acclaim, twelve months before, was a high-spirited uptempo, which suggested a sexually confused reality, and wasn't appreciated by the critics, who started accusing him of breathless singing 'above the lines'. However, his third album, titled after the sub-title of the song, Quello che voglio, again entered the Top 50, peaking at Number 42, four positions lower than his predecessor, but it went no further than the very last position in the Top 200 of the final yearly chart, also getting out of the charts some weeks earlier than Alex Baroni, though hard promotion and a videoclip which got high rotation on MTV Europe
for the tune ambiguously called "Dimmi che ci sei" - its title being indeed general, the track was labelled by some as a gay love song, only adding up to the confusion of the Festival song. The album, though, did produce a smash hit, the summer anthem called "Onde", his most famous song internationally, and probably the best known in Italy too, second only to "Cambiare": "Onde" has a killing hook showing Alex at his best vocally, and a videoclip where the singer displays his skills as a diver, as well as a finely built musclebound. The song also gives its title to Baroni's 1998 international album, Onde, exclusively composed of songs taken from Alex Baroni and Quello che Voglio, and distributed in many Europe
an countries, including The Netherlands, Germany
and Belgium
.
While touring for his 1998 album, Baroni participated in the Sopot Festival
in Poland
, which he won. After a triumphant return back home, he left again for Africa
, along with the Italian songstress Giorgia
, who had become his girlfriend, in the meantime. The two shot the videoclip for Alex's next single, an interesting pop soul upbeat song, poeticly called "Pavimento liquido" (meaning "liquid floor"), with dreamy lyrics and soaring vocals. The tune didn't get the usual publicity coming from Sanremo, and, though it did get much airplay, with Alex appearing on almost each and every channel on the TV (he even performed on children afternoon programmes), it wasn't a big commercial success, this time due to another accusation, which saw in the song lyrics an invitation or a praise to drug.
, "Mother Nature's Son
", and a disco
favourite, totally sung in English, entitled "Everything" (later translated into Italian, due to a lack of interest from his label in having him sing original songs in foreign languages). Ultimamente was promoted for two years, instead of the usual eight months, and the related tour also lasted longer than the ones for the two previous records, but, Alex Baroni's success was beginning to pay its toll: the album was indeed "cloned" illegally in million copies, so, though it did reach in fact large audiences, it didn't succeed in officially entering the charts, and it never cracked into the Top 200! The disc produced a couple of promo videos, and many well known songs, but though its wide bootleg distribution, it didn't get that love and attention that Alex Baroni and Quello che voglio had instead received from fans and critics, respectively.
After the two-year long promotion and tour, which left the artist exhausted and disillusioned, but eager to start anew, Alex Baroni decided to make a little break, during which he wrote and recorded many tracks, a number of which with different producers than the trio he had always been working with until 1999 ("I Piloti", for Italian historical label, Ricordi). Unfortunately, he would never be able to present his loyal fan-base and adult audience with his new compositions, since he died from a street accident in Rome, while he was driving his motorbike, apparently too fast, as it seems from the latest legal investigations. He got involved in the accident on March 19, 2002, and after three weeks in a coma, he finally died on April 13, 2002 in Rome
.
. The legal action which subsequently took place ended in 2007, when the accused, who pleaded not guilty, was declared to be innocent, because, as it seems, the singer was driving too fast in the traffic of the capital
Promoted during late 2002 and most of 2003, the album became indeed hugely successful, especially thanks to one of the three previously unreleased tracks, the opening song called "La distanza di un amore" (literally meaning "The distance of a love", probably describing his love story with his girlfriend), which was airplayed as a single, but the singer wasn't there to witness it; even fans couldn't express any joy or satisfaction for such a huge hit, finally achieved, but, unluckily, come too late. At the same time, his former girlfriend and singing colleague, Giorgia, released her own greatest hits compilation, dedicated in its entirety to his ex boyfriend, and appropriately titled Le cose non vanno mai come credi (literally: "Things never happen as you think they will"). Her record included a heartfelt song, called "Marzo" ("March"), describing the mood of that strange month, when the guy (who was barely 35 at the time) got caught in the mortal accident, and was complemented by a suggestive videoclip, all in black and dark hues, where the girl appears in all her pale and sad beauty.
A whole posthumous new album, the fifth, entitled C'è di più, was released in 2004, containing songs recorded during the 1998–2002 period, and never before released, including the title-track of this record, "C'è di più", a live medley of the Beatles' "Yesterday
" and John Lennon
's "Imagine
", and another title-track, this time to his 1999 last album, Ultimamente, which, in perfect Culture Club
style, was left out of the final track listing, and never featured there. The song "Ultimamente" was proposed for one more "Festival di Sanremo" by Alex himself, when he was still alive, but had been refused; it was used instead, as a single, to promote this second posthumous work. The album peaked at Number 17, and was classified at Number 186 in 2004 annual chart (his second best achievement ever, again, unfortunately, posthumous).
Besides the many no profit live concerts, theatre plays and various kinds of shows, regularly performed, around the towns of Italy, by friends and colleagues, playing, singing, interpreting and re-elaborating Baroni's repertoire, three more recording works were subsequently released to keep the memory of Alex alive. First of all, the 2002 CD compilation Semplicemente was re-released, in 2006, as a dual disc, including that same greatest hits collection plus a DVD
side, with all his videoclips, and a beautiful photo gallery. Secondly, a tribute came out, simply called Alex, realized by peer musicians and friends, covering some of his songs from all his albums, chosen following the artists' personal feelings, that's why not all tracks on the tribute are well known. This was also released in 2006. Finally, in 2007, a double collection was out, simply called Alex Baroni Collection, totally containing 24 songs, with three previously unreleased tracks, "Sei la sola che vorrei" (Italian adaptation of Stevie Wonder
's "Another Star", translated and adapted by Alex himself), "La vita è un dado" and "Vorrei", plus a very hard to find tune from Metrica album Fuorimetrica, entitled "La lettera".
Alex Baroni's official website is maintained by his brother, Guido, who also founded the Comitato Alex Baroni (Alex Baroni Committee), to preserve his brother's artistic legacy and to raise funds for charity.
Alex Baroni (1997 - Ricordi
Disney's Hercules - Italian Original Soundtrack (1997 - Wonderland Music Company
Italian lyrics: Michele Centonze - Music: Alan Menken - Original lyrics: David Zippel
Quello che voglio (1998 - Ricordi
Onde - International Album (1998 - Ricordi
Compilation album for export abroad only, including tracks taken from the albums Alex Baroni and Quello Che Voglio.
C'è di più (2004 - Ricordi
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
white soul / pop commercial singer, active between 2001 and 2002. He released 4 albums during his lifetime. A fifth posthumous record, a tribute album, and two more collections (one of which double, both of them containing previously unreleased material, and his greatest songs) were out after his death.
Early career
Born in MilanMilan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Baroni began his career singing in Milan clubs, during the 1990s, after getting his chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
degree at the university, and while still working as a teacher. He sang the backing vocals for many famous artists, including Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti , known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Ramazzotti is enormously popular in Italy, and is well known in most non-English-speaking European countries and in the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both...
, Spagna
Spagna
Spagna is an Italian singer and songwriter.-Career:She started her career singing in English and in the early 1980s she provided vocals and wrote songs for an Italo Disco duo project called Fun Fun; as well as writing songs for many other dance music projects until 1986, when she embarked on a solo...
and Rossana Casale, before forming his own group, called Metrica, and releasing an album with them. His very first album was called Fuorimetrica, its title, which played with the name of the band, hinted at freedom of expression, irrespective of metrics. Though the record was produced by international star Eros Ramazzotti, and released on the latter's own label, in 1994, it didn't trouble the charts.
In 1997, he was critically acclaimed, winning two prizes, as a newcomer, at the popular Festival di Sanremo, the Festival of the Italian Song, for both best arrangement and his amazing vocal performance (Pavarotti Award), with the self-penned track "Cambiare". He was soon hailed as the "Italian Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
", due to a very high range, and a black-like soulful voice. His second self-titled album, Alex Baroni, which produced many promotional single tracks (including the song presented at the Festival, and a cover version of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' classic "In My Life
In My Life
"In My Life" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney . The song originated with Lennon, and while Paul McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent of his contribution is in dispute. George Martin contributed the instrumental bridge...
"), entered the Italian Top 50, peaking at Number 38, and was classified at Number 138 in the final annual chart, making him one of the best newcomers of the year, which was spent by the singer in performing an uncountable number of duets with too many artists to mention.
Later in 1997, he sang for the Italian version of Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
's Hercules soundtrack, giving teenage Hercules his voice, on the song called "Posso farcela" - the English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
version, entitled "Go the Distance", was performed by Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton is an American singer and songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, both on his early solo albums and those recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack...
, while the Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
rendition was "No importa la distancia", by Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
n singer Ricky Martin
Ricky Martin
Enrique "Ricky" Martín Morales , better known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican and Spanish pop singer and actor who achieved prominence, first as a member of the Latin boy band Menudo, then as a solo artist since 1991.During his career he has sold more than 60 million album copies worldwide...
.
In 1998, Alex again took part to the Sanremo Festival, this time in a higher category (either called 'Big' or 'Champions'), because of his million-selling 1997 album, but he wasn't able to duplicate the success of the previous year. His new song, "Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio)", rather different from the heartfelt ballad
Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later the Americas, Australia and North Africa. Many...
(seemingly dedicated to his father), which had won him so much acclaim, twelve months before, was a high-spirited uptempo, which suggested a sexually confused reality, and wasn't appreciated by the critics, who started accusing him of breathless singing 'above the lines'. However, his third album, titled after the sub-title of the song, Quello che voglio, again entered the Top 50, peaking at Number 42, four positions lower than his predecessor, but it went no further than the very last position in the Top 200 of the final yearly chart, also getting out of the charts some weeks earlier than Alex Baroni, though hard promotion and a videoclip which got high rotation on MTV Europe
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
for the tune ambiguously called "Dimmi che ci sei" - its title being indeed general, the track was labelled by some as a gay love song, only adding up to the confusion of the Festival song. The album, though, did produce a smash hit, the summer anthem called "Onde", his most famous song internationally, and probably the best known in Italy too, second only to "Cambiare": "Onde" has a killing hook showing Alex at his best vocally, and a videoclip where the singer displays his skills as a diver, as well as a finely built musclebound. The song also gives its title to Baroni's 1998 international album, Onde, exclusively composed of songs taken from Alex Baroni and Quello che Voglio, and distributed in many Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an countries, including The Netherlands, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
.
While touring for his 1998 album, Baroni participated in the Sopot Festival
Sopot International Song Festival
The Sopot International Song Festival is an international song contest held in Sopot, Poland. It was the biggest Polish music festival altogether with the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, and one of the biggest annual song contest in Europe...
in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, which he won. After a triumphant return back home, he left again for Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, along with the Italian songstress Giorgia
Giorgia Todrani
Giorgia Todrani, best known as Giorgia is an Italian female singer and song-writer, known for her soulful voice, which is aided by a wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities. She is one of the most iconic and famous Italian singers. She has released ten studio albums,...
, who had become his girlfriend, in the meantime. The two shot the videoclip for Alex's next single, an interesting pop soul upbeat song, poeticly called "Pavimento liquido" (meaning "liquid floor"), with dreamy lyrics and soaring vocals. The tune didn't get the usual publicity coming from Sanremo, and, though it did get much airplay, with Alex appearing on almost each and every channel on the TV (he even performed on children afternoon programmes), it wasn't a big commercial success, this time due to another accusation, which saw in the song lyrics an invitation or a praise to drug.
Later career
The single did far better than his fourth album, released in the Fall of 1999, called Ultimamente, which bombed totally. The record contained 13 songs, including the single as its opening track, a cover version of another classic by The BeatlesThe Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
, "Mother Nature's Son
Mother Nature's Son
"Mother Nature's Son" is a Lennon–McCartney song, written primarily by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on The Beatles . It was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while the Beatles were in India. The same lecture inspired Lennon's unreleased song "Child of Nature",...
", and a disco
Disco
Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...
favourite, totally sung in English, entitled "Everything" (later translated into Italian, due to a lack of interest from his label in having him sing original songs in foreign languages). Ultimamente was promoted for two years, instead of the usual eight months, and the related tour also lasted longer than the ones for the two previous records, but, Alex Baroni's success was beginning to pay its toll: the album was indeed "cloned" illegally in million copies, so, though it did reach in fact large audiences, it didn't succeed in officially entering the charts, and it never cracked into the Top 200! The disc produced a couple of promo videos, and many well known songs, but though its wide bootleg distribution, it didn't get that love and attention that Alex Baroni and Quello che voglio had instead received from fans and critics, respectively.
After the two-year long promotion and tour, which left the artist exhausted and disillusioned, but eager to start anew, Alex Baroni decided to make a little break, during which he wrote and recorded many tracks, a number of which with different producers than the trio he had always been working with until 1999 ("I Piloti", for Italian historical label, Ricordi). Unfortunately, he would never be able to present his loyal fan-base and adult audience with his new compositions, since he died from a street accident in Rome, while he was driving his motorbike, apparently too fast, as it seems from the latest legal investigations. He got involved in the accident on March 19, 2002, and after three weeks in a coma, he finally died on April 13, 2002 in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
.
Death
His death happened in a car accident, while he was driving his motorbike, not far from the centre of RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. The legal action which subsequently took place ended in 2007, when the accused, who pleaded not guilty, was declared to be innocent, because, as it seems, the singer was driving too fast in the traffic of the capital
Posthumous recognition
In the fall of that same year, a compilation album was released, called Semplicemente ("Simply"), but also known as Semplicemente Alex Baroni, including three new songs Alex was working on at the time of his death, and 11 of his biggest hits, chosen by fans themselves through a radio survey, including "Cambiare", "Onde", "Pavimento liquido" (the only song taken from Ultimamente), "Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio)", "Dimmi che ci sei", and other stand-out tracks from Alex Baroni and Quello che voglio. The collection got straight to Number 2, and reached Number 27 in the final yearly chart (his best achievement ever, though unfortunately posthumous).Promoted during late 2002 and most of 2003, the album became indeed hugely successful, especially thanks to one of the three previously unreleased tracks, the opening song called "La distanza di un amore" (literally meaning "The distance of a love", probably describing his love story with his girlfriend), which was airplayed as a single, but the singer wasn't there to witness it; even fans couldn't express any joy or satisfaction for such a huge hit, finally achieved, but, unluckily, come too late. At the same time, his former girlfriend and singing colleague, Giorgia, released her own greatest hits compilation, dedicated in its entirety to his ex boyfriend, and appropriately titled Le cose non vanno mai come credi (literally: "Things never happen as you think they will"). Her record included a heartfelt song, called "Marzo" ("March"), describing the mood of that strange month, when the guy (who was barely 35 at the time) got caught in the mortal accident, and was complemented by a suggestive videoclip, all in black and dark hues, where the girl appears in all her pale and sad beauty.
A whole posthumous new album, the fifth, entitled C'è di più, was released in 2004, containing songs recorded during the 1998–2002 period, and never before released, including the title-track of this record, "C'è di più", a live medley of the Beatles' "Yesterday
Yesterday (song)
"Yesterday" is a song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. The song first hit the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. The song remains popular today with more than 1,600 cover versions, one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded...
" and John Lennon
John Lennon
John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
's "Imagine
Imagine (song)
"Imagine" is a song written and performed by the English musician John Lennon. It is the opening track on his album Imagine, released in 1971...
", and another title-track, this time to his 1999 last album, Ultimamente, which, in perfect Culture Club
Culture Club
Culture Club are a British rock band who were part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. The original band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay and Jon Moss...
style, was left out of the final track listing, and never featured there. The song "Ultimamente" was proposed for one more "Festival di Sanremo" by Alex himself, when he was still alive, but had been refused; it was used instead, as a single, to promote this second posthumous work. The album peaked at Number 17, and was classified at Number 186 in 2004 annual chart (his second best achievement ever, again, unfortunately, posthumous).
Besides the many no profit live concerts, theatre plays and various kinds of shows, regularly performed, around the towns of Italy, by friends and colleagues, playing, singing, interpreting and re-elaborating Baroni's repertoire, three more recording works were subsequently released to keep the memory of Alex alive. First of all, the 2002 CD compilation Semplicemente was re-released, in 2006, as a dual disc, including that same greatest hits collection plus a DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
side, with all his videoclips, and a beautiful photo gallery. Secondly, a tribute came out, simply called Alex, realized by peer musicians and friends, covering some of his songs from all his albums, chosen following the artists' personal feelings, that's why not all tracks on the tribute are well known. This was also released in 2006. Finally, in 2007, a double collection was out, simply called Alex Baroni Collection, totally containing 24 songs, with three previously unreleased tracks, "Sei la sola che vorrei" (Italian adaptation of Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
's "Another Star", translated and adapted by Alex himself), "La vita è un dado" and "Vorrei", plus a very hard to find tune from Metrica album Fuorimetrica, entitled "La lettera".
Alex Baroni's official website is maintained by his brother, Guido, who also founded the Comitato Alex Baroni (Alex Baroni Committee), to preserve his brother's artistic legacy and to raise funds for charity.
Fuorimetrica (1994 - DDD)
- Rumore e musica
- Oceano
- Un grande cielo
- Sogni a mezzogiorno
- Non dimenticare Disneyland
- Inutile
- Sosta
- L'amore ha sempre fame
- Anima
- L'ospite
- Sosia (Reprise)
Alex Baroni (1997 - RicordiCasa RicordiCasa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...
)
- Dentro di te - 3:38 (Baroni/Lauria - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Cambiare - 4:13 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Non vivo - 3:48 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- La voce della luna - 4:07 (Marino - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Bersaglio mobile - 3:30 (P.Calabrese - Baroni/Fragile)
- Scrivi qualcosa per me - 3:26 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Ce la faro - 4:32 (Baroni/Lauria - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Male che fa male - 5:05 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Madonia/Zuppini)
- Io ci saro - 4:07 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Parlo di te e di me - 4:42 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- In My LifeIn My Life"In My Life" is a song by The Beatles written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney . The song originated with Lennon, and while Paul McCartney contributed to the final version, the extent of his contribution is in dispute. George Martin contributed the instrumental bridge...
- 2:39 (Lennon-McCartney)
Disney's Hercules - Italian Original Soundtrack (1997 - Wonderland Music CompanyWonderland Music CompanyWonderland Music Company, Inc. is a U.S. music publisher. Part of the Walt Disney Company's Disney Music Group, Wonderland was founded in 1951. It is based in Burbank, California, and is affiliated with the performing rights organization BMI....
)
Italian lyrics: Michele Centonze - Music: Alan Menken - Original lyrics: David Zippel- Ti vada o no (Single Version) - 3:16 - Paola & Chiara
- Shooting Star - 4:11 - Boyzone
- Go the Distance - 4:40 - Michael Bolton
- A Star Is Born - 2:03 - Jocelyn Brown
- The Gospel Truth - 4:26 - Jocelyn Brown
- I Won't Say (I'm in Love) - 3:16 - Belinda Carlisle
- No importa la distancia - 4:51 - Ricky Martin
- Zero to Hero - 3:57 - Sounds of Blackness
- Tempo Fa - 0:30 - Oreste Rizzini
- Questa è la realtà (Parte 1) - 2:24 - E.Cortesi/L.Francia/L.Feghaly/P.Repele/P.Folli
- Questa è la realtà (Parte 2) - 0:57 - E.Cortesi/L.Francia/L.Feghaly/P.Repele/P.Folli
- Questa è la realtà (Parte 3) - 1:04 - E.Cortesi/L.Francia/L.Feghaly/P.Folli
- Posso farcela - 3:13 - Alex Baroni
- Oh, possente Zeus (Posso Farcela Orchestra Only) - 0:45 - Instrumental
- Posso farcela (Reprise) - 0:56 - Alex Baroni
- L'ultima speranza - 3:00 - Giancarlo Magalli
- Ieri era zero - 2:19 - E.Cortesi/L.Francia/L.Feghaly/P.Repele/P.Folli/M.Ferrara/V.Draghi
- Ti vada o no - 2:19 - Barbara Cola & Coro
- È nata una star - 2:03 - E.Cortesi/L.Francia/L.Feghaly/P.Repele/P.Folli
- La grande oliva - 1:05 - Instrumental
- La profezia - 0:53 - Instrumental
- La distruzione di Agorà - 2:06 - Instrumental
- L'isola di Fil - 2:22 - Instrumental
- Rodeo - 0:39 - Instrumental
- Si parlava di disastri - 1:30 - Instrumental
- La battaglia con l'idra - 3:28 - Instrumental
- Il giardino di Meg - 1:14 - Instrumental
- La villa di Hercules - 0:36 - Instrumental
- Il più grande fra i tonti - 0:37 - Instrumental
- Un vero eroe/È nata una star (Cast Version) - 5:33 - Instrumental
Quello che voglio (1998 - RicordiCasa RicordiCasa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...
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- Non ho bisogno - 4:18 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio) - 4:22 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Onde - 4:15 (Baroni/Galli-Ravasini)
- Dimmi che ci sei - 4:24 (Marino-M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Chi mi aiuterà (You Keep Me Hanging On) - 3:48 (Italian lyrics: Gianco - Original lyrics and music: Mize/Allan)
- Ora lo so - 4:28 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/P.Calabrese)
- Dedicato a te - 4:11 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Non vedi? - 4:10 (Baroni - Baroni/Fragile/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Come sei (E quello che non sei) - 3:55 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Signora Fantasia - 5:01 (Galli - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Dimmi cos'è (Hip to Be Square) 3:45 (Italian lyrics: Baroni - Original lyrics and music: Gibson/Hopper/H. Lewis)
- Le cose che vorrei (Quello che voglio reprise) 3:02 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
Onde - International Album (1998 - RicordiCasa RicordiCasa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...
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Compilation album for export abroad only, including tracks taken from the albums Alex Baroni and Quello Che Voglio.Ultimamente (1999)
- Pavimento liquido - 4:04 (Baroni - Bertotti)
- Quando l'amore se ne va - 3:57 (Migliacci - Mattone)
- Perché - 3:44 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Sail On - 3:37 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Viaggio - 3:49 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Fuori di qua - 3:30 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Solo per te - 4:39 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Fuori dalla mia finestra - 3:57 (GiorgiaGiorgia TodraniGiorgia Todrani, best known as Giorgia is an Italian female singer and song-writer, known for her soulful voice, which is aided by a wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities. She is one of the most iconic and famous Italian singers. She has released ten studio albums,...
/Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) - Non ci pensare - 3:36(Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Voci di notte - 3:33 (Baroni/Tizianablu - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Everything - 4:02 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- E il cielo mi prese con sé - 3:29 (Renato ZeroRenato ZeroRenato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini , an Italian singer-songwriter and showman whose career spans a full 6 decades, from the 1960s to the 2010s....
- Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi) - Mother Nature's SonMother Nature's Son"Mother Nature's Son" is a Lennon–McCartney song, written primarily by Paul McCartney and released by The Beatles on The Beatles . It was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while the Beatles were in India. The same lecture inspired Lennon's unreleased song "Child of Nature",...
- 2:27 (Lennon/McCartney)
CD Audio Side
- La distanza di un amore - 3:56 (Baroni/Laurex) [previously unreleased]
- Binario 4 - 3:42 (Nocera/Torre/Guidetti) [previously unreleased]
- Speriamo - 4:02 (Galli/Baroni/Cosma) [previously unreleased]
- Onde - 4:15 (Baroni/Galli-Ravasini)
- Dimmi che ci sei - 4:24 (Marino-M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Pavimento liquido - 4:07 (Baroni - Bertotti)
- Cambiare - 4:13 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio) - 4:22 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Ce la farò - 4:32 (Baroni/Lauria - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Scrivi qualcosa per me - 3:26 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Male che fa male - 5:05 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Madonia/Zuppini)
- Signora Fantasia - 5:01 (Galli - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- La voce della luna - 4:07 (Marino - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Dedicato a te - 4:11 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
DVD Video Side
- Scrivi qualcosa per me
- Onde (videomix)
- Dimmi che ci sei
- Pavimento liquido
- Fuori di qua
- Galleria fotografica
C'è di più (2004 - RicordiCasa RicordiCasa Ricordi is a classical music publishing company founded in 1808 as G. Ricordi & Co. by violinist Giovanni Ricordi in Milan, Italy...
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- Libero - 4:05 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Ultimamente - 4:29 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Sei la mia canzone - 3:49 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- C'è di più - 3:24 (P.Calabrese - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Giorno dopo giorno - 3:31 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Un anno fa - 4:13 (Salerno - Guidetti/Caravano)
- Come te - 4:01 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Sei dentro di me - 4:07 (P.Calabrese - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo)
- Maria - 3:14 (Roversi/Ravasini)
- Rain - 2:09 (Morgan/Pastorius)
- E ti farò volare - 3:45 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi)
- Non mi fermo mai - 4:03 (Baroni - Ravasini)
- Medley: Yesterday/Imagine - 6:30 (Lennon - McCartney / Lennon - Lennon)
Alex (Tributo ad Alex Baroni) (2006 - Azzurra Music)
- Cambiare - (original version on "Alex Baroni", 1997)
- Male che fa male - (original version on "Quello che voglio", 1998)
- Onde - (original version on "Quello che voglio", 1998)
- Scrivi qualcosa per me - (original version on "Alex Baroni", 1997)
- La voce della luna - (original version on "Alex Baroni", 1997)
- Pavimento liquido - (original version on "Ultimamente", 1999)
- Sail On - (original version on "Ultimamente", 1999)
- Speriamo - (original version on "Semplicemente", 2002)
- Un grande cielo - (original version on "Fuorimetrica", 1994)
- Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio) - (original version on "Quello che voglio", 1998)
- Signora Fantasia - (original version on "Quello che voglio", 1998)
- Non vedi - (original version on "Quello che voglio", 1998)
- L'amore ha sempre fame - (original version on "Fuorimetrica", 1994)
CD 1
- Sei la sola che vorrei - 5:17 (S. Wonder/Italian lyrics: Baroni) [previously unreleased, 2007]
- La vita è un dado - 4:01 (Baroni) [previously unreleased, 2007]
- La distanza di un amore - 3:56 (Baroni/Laurex) [from "Semplicemente", 1999]
- Dimmi che ci sei - 4:23 (Marino-M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Quello che voglio", 1998]
- Sei tu o lei (Quello che voglio) - 4:19 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Quello che voglio", 1998]
- Signora Fantasia - 4:58 (Galli - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi) [from "Quello che voglio", 1998]
- Male che fa male - 5:07 (Baroni/P.Calabrese - Madonia/Zuppini) [from "Alex Baroni", 1997]
- Un anno fa - 4:14 (Salerno - Guidetti/Caravano) [from "C'è di più", 2004]
- Onde - 4:14 (Baroni/Galli-Ravasini) [from "Quello che voglio", 1998]
- La voce della luna - 4:09 (Marino - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Alex Baroni", 1997]
- Scrivi qualcosa per me - 3:28 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Alex Baroni", 1997]
- Ultimamente - 4:30 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "C'è di più", 2004]
CD 2
- Vorrei - 3:52 (Baroni/Ravasini) [previously unreleased, 2007]
- La lettera - 4:24 (Baroni/Zuppini) [from "Fuorimetrica" by Metrica, 2007]
- Cambiare - 4:13 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Alex Baroni", 1997]
- Pavimento liquido - 4:04 (Baroni - Bertotti) [from "Ultimamente", 1999]
- Io ci sarò - 4:08 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Alex Baroni", 1997]
- Dimmi cos'è (Hip to Be Square) - 3:42 (Italian lyrics: Baroni - Original lyrics and music: Gibson/Hopper/H. Lewis) [from "Quello che voglio", 1999]
- Fuori di qua - 3:29 (Baroni - Baroni/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi) [from "Ultimamente", 1999]
- Binario 4 - 3:44 (Nocera/Torre/Guidetti) [from "Semplicemente", 2002]
- Libero - 4:06 (Baroni - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "C'è di più", 2004]
- Ce la farò - 4:34 (Baroni/Lauria - M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi/D'Angelo) [from "Alex Baroni", 1997]
- Non vedi? - 4:07 (Baroni - Baroni/Fragile/M.Calabrese/Rinalduzzi) [from "Quello che voglio", 1998]
- Chi mi aiuterà? (You Keep Me Hanging On) - 3:48 (Italian lyrics: Gianco - Original lyrics and music: Mize/Allan) [from "Quello che voglio", 1998]