{{short description|Italian singer and composer (born 1948)}} {{Infobox person | name = Mario Lavezzi | image = Sanremo Music Festival 2018 - Mario Lavezzi.png | caption = Lavezzi at the Sanremo Music Festival 2018 | birth_name = Bruno Mario Lavezzi | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|5|8}} | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|composer|record producer}} }} '''Bruno Mario Lavezzi''' (born 8 May 1948) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and guitarist.
== Life and career == Born in Milan, he studied piano and guitar at the Scuola Civica di Milano.<ref name=bio1>{{cite news|last1=Franco Mondini|title=Mario Lavezzi quel cantante che sente le Voci |issue= 247|newspaper=La Stampa|date=5 November 1991 |page=23}}</ref> He started his career in 1963, as the singer and guitarist for the band The Trappers.<ref name=bio>{{cite news|last1=Franco Mondini|title="Passionalità", Lavezzi con i versi di Costanzo|issue= 247|newspaper=La Stampa|date=5 November 1991 |page=23}}</ref><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}}</ref> In 1966, following the dissolution of the band, he replaced Riki Maiocchi in the I Camaleonti until 1968, when he had to leave the band after being drafted into the Italian army.<ref name=bio/><ref name=music/> In 1969 he debuted as a composer with the Dik Dik hit "Il primo giorno di primavera".<ref name=bio/> In 1970 he co-founded the pop-rock group Flora Fauna e Cemento, then in 1974 he was part of the progressive rock musical project Il Volo.<ref name=bio/><ref name=music/> In the second half of the 1970s Lavezzi started a solo career as singer-songwriter;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Coppola |first=Alessio |date=2022-05-12 |title=Mario Lavezzi, la biografia del celebre compositore e cantautore |url=https://www.true-news.it/facts/mario-lavezzi-chi-e-il-compositore-e-cantautore-canzoni-loredana-berte-moglie-vita-privata |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=True News. |language=it-IT}}</ref> he also started collaborating as a composer and a record producer for several albums of Loredana Bertè.<ref name=bio/><ref name=music/> He later wrote songs for many notable artists, including Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Anna Oxa, Spagna, Marcella Bella, Ornella Vanoni, Fiorella Mannoia,<ref name=bio/><ref name=music/><ref>{{cite news|last1=m.v.|title="Passionalità", Lavezzi con i versi di Costanzo|issue=112|newspaper=La Stampa|date=2004-04-23|page=34}}</ref> and scored the 1984 Carlo Vanzina comedy film ''Amarsi un po''', which starred Tahnee Welch.
Lavezzi is the uncle of Italo-disco one hit wonder Diana Est.
== Discography ==
; Albums
* 1974 - ''Il Volo'' * 1976 - ''Iaia'' * 1978 - ''Filobus'' * 1979 - ''Cartolina'' * 1983 - ''Agrodolce'' * 1984 - ''Guardandoti, sfiorandoti'' * 1991 - ''Voci'' * 1993 - ''Voci 2'' * 1997 - ''Voci e chitarre'' * 1999 - ''Senza catene'' * 2004 - ''Passionalità'' * 2009 - ''A più voci'' * 2011 - ''L'amore è quando c'è''
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *{{Official website}} * [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mario+Lavezzi Mario Lavezzi] at Discogs *{{IMDb name|0491996}}
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