Alunni del Sole
Alunni del Sole in 1972
Alunni del Sole in 1972
Background information
OriginNaples,  Italy
Genres
Years active1968 – 2015
Labels
Past membersPaolo Morelli
Bruno Morelli
Giulio Leofrigio
Giampaolo Borra

Alunni del Sole ("Pupils of the Sun") are an Italian pop group, mainly successful in the seventies.

History

The group, which takes its name from the eponymous novel by Giuseppe Marotta, was born in the late sixties when two brothers of Naples, Paolo Morelli (piano and vocals) and Bruno Morelli (guitars), sons of a composer and of a pianist, decided moving in Rome to pursue a musical career and to be closer to the record companies; there they formed the group with Giulio Leofrigio (drums) and Giampaolo Borra (bass guitar).[1]

They were hired by Renzo Arbore for the 1969 RAI television program Speciale per voi[1] and had a first success with the song "Concerto".[2] which entered the Italian top ten,[3] They got their major hits a few years later, between 1973 and 1978;[2][3] notably, their song in Neapolitan "'A canzuncella" peaked at the third place on the Italian Hit Parade in 1977,[3] and it is considered as the progenitor of the Neapolitan musical new wave happened between late seventies and early Eighties.[4]

The band won the 1978 Festivalbar with the song "Liù".[2] The group disbanded in 1983, then reunited in 1992.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Luciano Gianfranceschi (13 May 2013). "Sangue fucecchiese negli Alunni del Sole". Il Tirreno.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Enrico Deregibus. Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. ISBN 8809756258.
  3. 1 2 3 Dario Salvatori. Storia dell'Hit Parade. Gramese, 1989. ISBN 8876054391.
  4. ↑ Vittorio Paliotti. Storia della canzone napoletana. Newton Compton, 1992. ISBN 8854100668.
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