{{Short description|Italian singer-songwriter and actor (1952–2026)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = David Riondino | image = David Riondino.jpg | caption = | image_upright = 1.1<!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1952|6|10}} | birth_place = Florence, Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2026|3|29|1952|6|10}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | instrument = {{flatlist| *Vocals *guitar }} | genre = | occupation = {{flatlist| *Guitarist *singer-songwriter }} | years_active = 1974–2026 | label = | website = {{website|davidriondino.com}} }}
'''David Riondino''' (10 June 1952 – 29 March 2026) was an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer.
==Life and career== Riondino was born in Florence, Italy on 10 June 1952, the son of a teacher. He started his career in the mid-1970s as a member of the musical ensemble Collettivo Victor Jara.<ref name="curcio">Andrea Terrinoni. "David Riondino". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1470–1.</ref><ref name=Deregibus>{{cite book|last=Enrico Deregibus|title=Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana|date=8 October 2010|publisher=Giunti Editore, 2010|isbn=978-8809756250|pages=397–8}}</ref> In 1979 he made his solo debut with the album ''David Riondino'', and the same year he was the opening act in a series of concerts by Fabrizio De André and Premiata Forneria Marconi, including those in Florence and Bologna, where De André's live album ''Fabrizio De André in concerto - Arrangiamenti PFM'' was recorded.<ref name="curcio"/><ref name=Deregibus/> In 1980, following his second album, ''Boulevard'', with arrangements by Shel Shapiro, he focused on his live performances, where he mixed improvisation, music, and cabaret.<ref name="curcio"/>
Starting from the second half of the 1980s Riondino enjoyed a large success thanks to the semi-regular participation in the Canale 5 show ''Maurizio Costanzo Show'', where he used to improvise surreal songs imitating the style of the Brazilian singer-songwriters.<ref name="curcio"/><ref name=Deregibus/><ref name=music>{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|year=2009|publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=978-8863462296|page=873}}</ref> In 1987 he released his third album ''Tango dei miracoli'', whose booklet was illustrated by Milo Manara.<ref name="curcio"/>
Riondino's variagated career includes films, TV series, comedy plays as well as novels, poems and several collaborations with newspapers and magazines as a humorist and a semi-serious columnist.<ref name="curcio"/><ref name=Deregibus/><ref name=music/>
Riondino died in Rome on the morning of 29 March 2026, at the age of 73.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.unionesarda.it/news/italia/addio-a-david-riondino-lattore-e-cantautore-fiorentino-e-morto-a-73-anni-lqc98cpd|title=Addio a David Riondino: l’attore e cantautore fiorentino è morto a 73 anni|work=L'Unione Sarda|date=29 March 2026|language=Italian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=È morto David Riondino, addio al cantautore “irregolare” partito dalla Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze |url=https://www.iltirreno.it/firenze/cronaca/2026/03/29/news/e-morto-david-riondino-firenze-perde-la-voce-irregolare-del-cantautore-irregolare-1.100850354 |access-date=29 March 2026 |website=Il Tirreno |language=it}}</ref>
==Filmography== * ''To Love the Damned'' (1980) * ''The Night of the Shooting Stars'' (1982) * ''Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan'' (1987) * ''Zanzibar'' (TV, 1988) * ''Cavalli si nasce'' (1989) * ''La cattedra'' (1991) * ''Ilona Arrives with the Rain'' (1996) * ''Cuba Libre – Velocipedi ai tropici'' (1997, also director) * ''Donna selvaggia'' (1998) * ''Vado e torno'' (TV, 1998) * ''L'erba proibita'' (2002) * ''Viva Zapatero!'' (2005) * ''L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa'' (2009) * ''Amici miei – Come tutto ebbe inizio'' (2011) * ''The Invisible Player'' (2016)
==Discography== * 1979 – ''David Riondino'' (Ultima Spiaggia, ZPLS 34061) * 1980 – ''Boulevard'' (RCA Italiana, PL 31547) * 1987 – ''Tango dei miracoli'' (L'ALTernativa, ALT 003) * 1989 – ''Racconti picareschi'' (CGD, CGD 20932) * 1991 – ''Non svegliate l'amore'' (CGD, CGD 9031 74383-1) * 1994 – ''Temporale'' (CGD, CGD 4509 96185-2) * 1995 – ''Quando vengono le ballerine?'' (Rossodisera Records-Sony, RDS 480351)
==Books== * ''Rombi e milonghe. João Mesquinho e altre canzoni''. Feltrinelli, 1993. {{ISBN|88-07-81231-2}}. * ''Viaggio a Cuba'', with Valerio Peretti Cucchi. Zelig, 1997. {{ISBN|88-86471-49-1}}. * ''Epos 92–97. L'Italia in terzine da Tangentopoli all'Ulivo'', Grugliasco, Edizioni Arti grafiche San Rocco, 1998. {{ISBN|88-900156-1-6}}. * ''Rumba. Itinerari cubani al ritmo della capitale'', con Roberto Perini, Milano, Lizard, 1999. {{ISBN|88-86456-70-0}}. * ''Dante Inferno'', with Sandro Lombardi, con CD, Milano, Garzanti, 2002. {{ISBN|88-11-12007-1}}. * ''Cantata dei pastori immobili. Racconto di un presepe vivente'', illustrations by Sergio Staino. Donzelli, 2004. {{ISBN|88-7989-900-7}}. * ''John Martin. Il trombettiere di Apricale. Da Garibaldi a Custer'', with Claudio Nobbio. Fratelli Frilli, 2007. {{ISBN|978-88-7563-312-7}}. * ''Firenze''. Effequ, 2013. {{ISBN|978-88-89647-85-1}}.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{official website|http://www.davidriondino.com/}} * {{IMDb name|0727838}} * {{discogs artist|David Riondino}}
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