Umberto Bindi
(May 12, 1932 - May 23, 2002) Italy
Singer, songwriter
Born in Genoa, he co-wrote You're My World and . His songs, outside Italy, have been recorded by Dionne Warwick, Dalida, Glen Campbell, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones.
He was gay and didn't hide it, and this was a scandal in the 60s. He founded the "Genoa school" of "cantautori" (= singer-songwriters) that, starting with him, continues with Fabrizio De André, Gino Paoli and others. Just a little before his death he received the benefits of the "Bacchelli law", assisting elder artists in financial need. But it was too late - in fact for a long time he was ill and poverty stricken.
Umberto Bindi payd the scandal he aroused declaring publicly his homosexuality, with being emarginated notwithstanding his value as a singer-songwriter. Only his lover Massimo Artesi remained at his side and assisted him to his very last breath. Bindi died at Rome hospital from heart disease, aged 70.
His Records:
33 tours
- Umberto Bindi e le sue canzoni
- Umberto Bindi
- Con il passare del tempo
- Io e il mare
- D'ora in poi
- Bindi
- Di coraggio non si muore
45 tours
- Arrivederci
- Odio
- Amare te
- Nuvola per due
- Girotondo per i grandi
- Basta una volta
- Tu
- Non so
- Un giorno, un mese, un anno
- Lasciatemi sognare
- Appuntamento a Madrid
- Il confine
- E' vero
- Luna nuova sul Fuji Yama
- Il nostro concerto
- Se ci sei
- Chiedimi l'impossibile
- Un paradiso da vendere
- Marie Claire
- Non mi dire chi sei
- Riviera
- Vento di mare
- Ninna nanna
- Girotondo per i grandi
- Jane
- Carnevale a Rio
- Io e il mare
- Flash
- L'Alba
- Di coraggio non si muore
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