Mario Venuti
Though he came to represent the music scene that came out of Catania in the 1980s and '90s, Mario Venuti was born in Siracusa (on October 28, 1963) and lived in various other places in Sicily before his family finally settled down in the city under Mt. Etna. He grew up listening to the Beatles and studying piano and guitar, and in 1984 he joined the group Denovo, right when a new kind of rock music was beginning to spread across Italy (characterized by artists like Ligabue and Vasco Rossi). Denovo -- for whom Venuti played guitar and sang -- released five albums before breaking up in 1990, and the young musician used this opportunity to travel to Brazil, an experience that greatly inspired his later work. In 1994 his first solo album, Un Po' di Febbre, which combined his Mediterranean upbringing with his British pop and Brazilian bossa nova influences, was released, followed by 1996's Microclima.
That same year Venuti also collaborated with former manager Francesco Virlinzi's new prodigy, a fellow Catanian named Carmen Consoli, co-writing her debut single, "Amore di Plastica," off her debut album, Due Parole. Consoli returned the favor by appearing on the duet "Mai Come Ieri," the title cut off his 1998 record, and a song that brought Venuti into the spotlight. After the death of Virlinzi in 2001, the Sicilian moved to Musica & Suoni, an independent label distributed by Universal, for the release of 2003's Grandimprese, a record whose singles "Veramente" and "Crudele" brought him more national attention (the latter won two first-place awards at the annual San Remo Festival). In the following years, Venuti kept busy by writing for other artists, appearing in the Taormina, Sicily, production of the musical Datemi Tre Caravelle, about the life of Christopher Columbus, and beginning work on his fifth solo record, Magneti, which came out in 2006.
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Grandi imprese
Pop - Released by Microclima-Musica e Suoni on 1 Jan 2003
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Motore di vita
Pop - Released by Microclima - Puntoeacapo on 7 Apr 2017
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Un po' di febbre (Deluxe Version)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 13 Jun 1994
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Tropitalia
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 7 Sep 2021
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L'officina del fantastico
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 29 Feb 2008
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L'ultimo romantico
Pop - Released by Microclima-Musica e Suoni on 8 May 2012
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Ma che freddo fa
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 7 May 2021
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Mai come ieri
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 23 Jun 1998
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L'alba
Pop - Released by Microclima - Musica e Suoni on 1 Jan 2015
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Il tramonto dell'Occidente
Pop - Released by Microclima - Musica e Suoni on 1 Jan 2014
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Magneti
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 3 Mar 2006
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Recidivo
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 9 Oct 2009
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Casacasa Live Session (Live)
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 24 Apr 2020
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Tra la carne e il cielo
Pop - Released by Microclima on 19 Apr 2024
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Microclima (Deluxe Version)
Pop - Released by Puntoeacapo SRL, Microclima on 27 May 1996
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Caduto dalle stelle (Get Far Fargetta Remix)
Dance - Released by Microclima - Puntoeacapo on 30 Jun 2017
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