Marco Masini is one of the most famous italian singers.
He was born on the 18th of September 1964 in Florence. His mother, Anna Maria, sang and played the piano and stopped teaching (she was a teacher at the elementary school) for her family. His father, Giancarlo, worked as a representative of products for hairdresser.
When Marco was 3, he received as a present for Christmas a pianola: he put on it his hands and he soon succeed in playing by ear White Christmas. Because of the advise of his uncle, some years later Marco began to have lessons of music, studying Bach, Chopin and Mozart, although he loved also Pop, Rock and Italian music.
When he was 11 he had the occasion to play at the feast of the patron of a little city near Florence. In those year he played every kind of music, from liscio to Revival and to disco music.
During lyceum he founded, together with some friends, a musical group called Errata Corrige, but he had another passion, soccer: when he was 15 Marco played in a team called Sanger and made also a specimen to enter in the team of the young footballer of Fiorentina as a goalkeeper. However, he had to leave sport because of his love for music.
The incompatibility between the tiring life of the musician (who brought him to go out every night and to come back home very late) and the life of a student brought him to leave school when he was at the 4th year of the school of accountancy, causing a first contrast with his family, but also with his friends.
For a while Marco worked with his father as a representative. In 1980 his family opened a bar in Florence, where Marco gave a hand with his sister Susanna. But the quarrels between Marco and his father increased, causing a strong sufferance in his mother.
Some years later she had a tumour and her husband was bound to sell the bar: Marco leaved to serve in the army (in the military aeronautic of Florence) and, the day after his return, on the 22th of August 1984, his mother died, with the deep sorrow of Marco, who regretted for ever the fact that he couldn’t be near her in the last moments of her life.
His engagement in the music increased: he went to Modena for 6 months, making arrangements for disco-music in a recording studio, so he came back to Florence because he had to continue his studies of composition, harmony and melody, while he made piano-bar wherever. He had as a teacher Walter Savelli, the pianist of Claudio Baglioni and the teacher of a lot of famous artists.
Although he had composed a lot of pieces (also a signature tune for a discotheque), Marco found difficulties in the moment of their presentation to the record companies, who accused him of the fact that “he hadn’t a right face for an artist” and of the fact that he produced songs which had too atypical lyrics rather than what the public expected to hear.
Thanks to Bob Rosati, who makes arrangements and is the proprietary of a studio in Sesto Fiorentino, Marco began to make the first specimens: he met Beppe Dati, a compositor and poet, with whom he wrote some pieces. In 1986 he had the important meeting with Bigazzi, in the studio situated in Settignano, where Marco made him hear some specimens. Bigazzi helped him to increase his gifts: Marco participated to the realization of some sound-tracks (Mediterraneo, Mary per sempre, Ragazzi fuori), he was the guide voice of Si può dare di più (sung by Morandi, Ruggeri and Tozzi at Sanremo Festival) and he participated to the tournée of Tozzi at the Royal Albert Hall of London (Marco made the arrangements, keyboards and remix of Immensamente). He leaved for the first tour in 1987, then he was in the tournée with Raf and he was the responsible of the realization and of the arrangements of his album Cosa resterà....
In 1988 he made a disc called Uomini, because of the initiative of Mario Ragni, with which he had to participate to Sanremo Festival, but that year Charlie Deanesi participated instead.
Marco didn't give up! After his reconciliation with his father, he began to write Disperato working with Bigazzi and Dati on the text. In 1990 he participated with this song to Sanremo Festival, arriving at the first place in the section of "Young Artists". Coming back from America (where he participated to Sanremo in the World), Marco began the realization of his first album, Marco Masini, for which there were just Disperato and Dal buio (written to be sung by Massimo Ranieri) done.
When he finished his first album, he worked soon on his second one to participate to Sanremo ’91. He prepared a piece entitled Ossigeno, but then they chose another song Perché lo fai, who won the third place after Riccardo Cocciante and Renato Zero, and the single sold more then any other in Italy in 1991.
The new album was published with the title Malinconoia (a new word coined by Marco which indicates a mix of melancholy and paranoia), term that could then be found in the Dictionary of Italian Language edited by G. Devoto and G. C. Oli. Marco began
