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I Gufi - Biographies
Roberto Brivio
Biography
Graduated from the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in 1959, in 1964 the meeting with Nanni Svampa and Lino Patruno, subsequently joined by Gianni Magni, gave birth to the musical group I Gufi, which in those years contributed to creating the musical cabaret in Italy, using the Milanese dialect.
The role of writer of original texts, with a noir background, created for Brivio the nickname of "cantamacabro". In an interview with Teatro e Musica News he stated that he would have liked to continue the experience of the quartet, but his colleagues decided to take different paths.
Brivio's television career as a single artist is mainly linked to Antenna 3 Lombardia, the historic commercial broadcaster of Legnano. On Antenna 3 Brivio was, in 1980, the star of "Lo Squizzofrenico" and, at the same time, Gufo of "Meglio Gufi che mai", both programs directed by Beppe Recchia.
In 1986 he led, again with Recchia as director, "Il Parapiglio" - where a corner was reserved for the former colleague Gianni Magni - and the following year "La Festa", directed by Paola Combe.
Brivio was also the owner and manager of numerous theatres and clubs in Milan including "Il Refettorio" - where artists such as Marco Messeri had the opportunity to take their first steps - and the "Ariberto Theatre". Together with his wife Grazia Maria Raimondi he was for years the mask of "Milano Meneghino".
Brivio was also the protagonist of numerous operettas, also broadcast on TV, including Ah !! The operetta, where he acted with his wife and with Gigi Giuffrida, to music by Gino Bettoni.
Artistic Director of La Scala della Vita and Stemec Theatre (Society of the Theatre of Music and Cinema).
He director and set up of prose shows, musicals, operettas, works in about 60 shows. Radio, television and theatrical author with over 30 programs overall. Film and television screenwriter.
He has worked as a non-registered journalist with La Notte, Il Giorno, Orizzonti Italiani, Travaso.
Lyricist with over 250 songs deposited and as many recorded as a solo voice and paired with Grazia Maria Raimondi - his artistic partner for about 15 years - and with I Gufi.
He formed and directed the Teatro del Corso, the Refettorio, Cabaret in via S. Maurilio, Art Mondial Cabaret, the Briviotenda, the Cristallo Theatre, the Ariberto Theater, the La Scala della Vita Theatre. Producer and organiser of shows, creative, creator of spectacular events.
Director of the Teatralia project: history of theatre from the Greeks to the present day, scheduled at La Scala della Vita Theatre. Organizer and teacher at the course of diction and declamatory art active from October 2007 at the IULM University of Milan.
Director and teacher at the Roberto Brivio Academy of Dramatic Art, a theatre school dedicated to speech and practice.
Actor, reader, speaker, director, producer and organizer of shows: prose, musical, operetta, opera, cabaret. Last directions: Each in his own way by Luigi Pirandello, Pericles, Prince of Tire by William Shakespeare, Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Eugène Ionesco's The Bald Singer for a French company.
Among his most famous programs: "Martino and Martina", "Hurray for the holidays", "Nonno Tobione", "The big family", "Le svisavole", "Why why do you say". Among the minor programs we remember instead I giallo del Briv ... io (with Gigi Giuffrida).
Film and television screenwriter. He collaborated for over a year with the radio newspaper of Radio Montecarlo holding a column entitled "Cabaret per due", in which he commented on the events of the week.
He has written and published seven books: 2 editions of "I canti Goliardici", "El Liber di Parolasc", "Better Bastards than ever ... from a dog's diary", "Dirty songs at the tavern", "Cabaret di merda "," Malalcoolia, stories of red and witty whites "and" The novel of the Merry Widow ".
He has also participated in many television and radio broadcasts including Zelig, Domenica in, Maurizio Costanzo Show, Il Gioco dei Nove, Fresco fresco, Il Cappello sui 23, Blitz ..
With Michele Moramarco (author of the volume The mythical I Gufi) and Andrea Ascolini, he proposed Fragments of Gufology to schools and social centres.
Bibliography
Michele Moramarco, The mythical Gufi (Edishow, Reggio Emilia 2001)
Roberto Brivio, Andrea Ancona Don't cheat us if you can (Gelmini Editions, 2009)
Roberto Brivio, El gran liber di parolasc (Meravigli editions-Premiata Libreria Milanese, Milan 2012)
Roberto Brivio, Beware of the Gufi - And adèss ve la cunti mì (Meravigli edizioni, Milan, 2013)
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This text was added on 24 January 2021 by Paolo Bolzoni on his own initiative, and was not checked by the family of Mr. Roberto Brivio.
Roberto Brivio was updating his biography when he suddenly left us on 22 January 2021, a victim of COVID-19.
It is a colossal feat to recall his frenetic activity from 2013 to today to pay homage to such a great artist and legend from the cabaret.
I just want to indicate some of his initiatives and performances. You can find them on YouTube by searching for “Roberto Brivio”.
* Foreign press review, the major world news broadcasts the news of his candidacy as Mayor of Milan, May 5, 2016.
* Roberto Brivio and Grazia Maria Raimondi read the Promessi Sposi in Milanese at the Urban Center in Milan, March 17, 2016.
* Roberto Brivio and Grazia Maria Raimondi sing "the Mass" at the Urban Center in Milan, March 17, 2016.
* Last concert for Nanni Svampa with Lino Patruno, 8 June 2018.
* Ariston Sanremo Theater, Tenco Award, 2019.
* Regionalia: one, two and three. By Roberto Brivio with his art partner Grazia Maria Raimondi and many other guest artists of each evening. Music, theatre, cabaret and films dedicated to Lombardy. October 2019.
* Brivio Web Cabaret, 2020.
* One Tuesday morning at Roberto Brivio's house. "Inscì tant per tegnes in forma", 13 Dec 2020.
In short, a frenetic and magmatic activity never stopped until hospitalisation. Every now and then someone asked him if he had decided what to do when he grew up. Answer: "Of course not. I will never be great, neither inwardly nor in fame. But I am happy like this."
"The cursed Covid took away from us, after so many Lombard artists and intellectuals who disappeared in recent months, also the desire to sing, to give joy and fun to a great multifaceted artist like Roberto Brivio", remembers the regional councillor for Autonomy and Culture of Lombardy, Stefano Bruno Galli. "An authentic performer, a 'stage lion' who knew how to enchant the audience with so much energy and great passion, singing the stories of our Lombardy, the traditional songs, in our dialects, which he mastered in Having collaborated intensely with him in recent years and up to the last few months - continued the Lombard councillor - I want to remember him for his commitment to keep alive and spread, even among young people, 'el noster dialett', an expression of our traditions, through popular songs and ballads that he brought to the stage in his shows ".
Flavio Oreglio, who had wanted him as a member of the Historical Archive of the Italian Cabaret, which he founded together with Patruno, recalled him on Fb sharing the memory of Sagoma publisher who on his website underlines that "the world of Italian cabaret has lost a real pillar, one of those that the cabaret show has invented, from scratch ". A memory with the words of many comedians who knew him.
"His macabre songs were hilarious. Really a gem in the panorama of humorous songs. We hired them many times at the Derby - said Cochi Ponzoni -. I respected him a lot because he was a volcanic person, with a lot of interest" ».
Inscì avaghen - so have it! - was his motto.
Farewell Roberto, thank you. Now you can continue creating with your dear friends Gianni and Nanni.
Gianni Magni
Biograhy
Born into a family with circus traditions, he made his debut at a young age (in 1953) on the Milanese theatrical stages and while still a teenager he performed with Nino Castelnuovo, Ferruccio Soleri and Giancarlo Cobelli in the team of mimes who supported Cino Tortorella in the broadcast of Rai Zurlì, magician of Thursday.
In 1959 he enrolled in the acting school of Giorgio Strehler's Piccolo Teatro di Milano, which he also combined with classes in classical dance and choreography.
In 1960 he participated in the role of supporting actor in some broadcasts with the singer Milva as the protagonist.
Returning from military service he met the musicians and actors Lino Patruno, Nanni Svampa and Roberto Brivio, with whom in 1964 he created the first Italian cabaret group, I Gufi.
After breaking up in 1969, Magni starred in the part of Olonese in the television program La filibusta and then in the cinema, and then returned to television in 1978 with the comedy program La sberla by Giancarlo Nicotra. He also hosted some programs for the then fledgling private TV Antennatre.
Abroad he conducted with Walter Valdi the "Din Don" program which was recorded for TSI (Italian Swiss Television), in which he played the role of Don Quixote.
In 1971 he is John Buffy in Il Fiore delle Hawaii for the Verdi Theater (Trieste) with Daniela Mazzucato, Sergio Tedesco, Mario Basiola, Carlo Rizzo, Gloria Paul, Graziella Porta, Sandro Massimini, Eno Mucchiutti and Orazio Bobbio under the direction of Massimo Scaglione in the Politeama Rossetti Stable Theater.
In 1981, the original line-up of the I Gufi came together for a cycle of 40 episodes entitled Meglio Gufi che mai, broadcast by the regional broadcaster Antenna 3 Lombardia and directed by Beppe Recchia. This collaboration continued until 1984 with two editions of "O la va o la spacca" and one of "Caffè Doppio" alongside Alexander and Anna Mazzamauro.
In 1987, again on Antenna 3, he participated as a regular guest of honor in Roberto Brivio's program "Il Parapiglio".
In 1989 he made a very brief cameo in I promessi sposi and published a book called No (comma) tu fai il toad, where he collected various comic texts and where he talked about love and Milan.
There were also numerous appearances of him in Rai programs such as "The good and the bad", "Loretta Goggi in quiz" and "The history of wine".
He also participated in one of the last editions of the famous Sperlari candy spot with Gianrico Tedeschi.
He died suddenly, struck down by a heart attack, on July 16, 1992, at the age of 51.
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Lino Patruno
Biography
Born in Crotone, Calabria, he moved at a young age first to Rome, then to Milan, the hub of the Italian jazz movement, where he began performing in 1954, founding some jazz bands including the Riverside Jazz Band. Later he moved to the Milan College Jazz Society.
In 1964, together with Nanni Svampa, Roberto Brivio and Gianni Magni, he gave life to the I Gufi.
The group disbanded in 1969, and together with Nanni Svampa and Franca Mazzola, his theatrical and cabaret activities continued. For RAI he made some successful television series (La mia morosa cara, Farewell tabarin, One day after another, A beautiful Sunday in September ...) and he dedicated himself to the recording of jazz records. In 1977 he took part in the Portobello television program conducted by Enzo Tortora on Rai 2.
In 1997 he wrote the music for the film Ti amo Maria by Carlo delle Piane.
After moving to Rome, he founded the "Lino Patruno Jazz Show" with which he regularly performs in the Capitoline clubs and in jazz festivals in Italy.
In 1992 he ran for the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) with the Marco Pannella List in the constituency of Rome-Viterbo-Latina-Frosinone, without being elected.
In 2009 he wrote the book "When Jazz had swing" published by Editoriale Pantheon, Rome.
Since 2018 the members of the band are currently: Gianluca Galvani, cornet; Michael Supnick, trombone and vocals; Raffaele Gaizo, clarinet; Silvia Manco, piano; Guido Giacomini, double bass.
With Pupi Avati he wrote the subject and the screenplay of the film Bix which represented Italy at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991.
Among the international festivals of the United Nations in which Patruno took part we remember that of Sanremo in 1963, that of Nice in 1976 and 1977, that of Breda (Netherlands) in 1978, those of Pompeii, Palermo, Lugano, Lucerne, Berne, Sargans, Düsseldorf, Varadero (Cuba), all in the eighties, that of Davenport (Iowa, USA), that of Libertyville (Chicago) in the nineties, those of Ascona (1998/2003).
He records for Jazzology, the prestigious record company based in New Orleans. In the CDs he has made in recent years he has recorded with some great names of today's classic jazz: Randy Reinhart, Ed Polcer, Randy Sandke, Jon-Erik Kellso, Tom Pletcher, Dan Barrett, Bob Havens, Allan Vache, Evan Christopher, Jim Galloway , Mark Shane, Howard Alden, Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, Marty Grosz, Andy Stein, Frank Tate, Ed Metz Jr, Joe Ascione, Vince Giordano, David Sager, Rebecca Kilgore and others unknown.
In 2009 he participated in Gianni Turco's "MilleVoci" program with the orchestra "The Hot Stompers". In 2010 he was next to Arisa in the performance of Malamorenò in an episode of the 60th Sanremo Festival.
Lino Patruno lives in Rome.
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Nanni Svampa
Giovanni "Nanni" Svampa (Milan, 28 February 1938 - Varese, 26 August 2017) was an Italian singer, writer and actor, founder of the musical and cabaret group I Gufi.
Biography
Childhood
Nanni Svampa's father, Napoleone known as Nino (1905-1973), was originally from Cannobio (VB), and worked in Milan as an accountant at his father-in-law's construction company.
Nanni Svampa was born a few years before the Second World War, in Porta Venezia (to be precise in via Ponchielli 5, one of the ancient entrances to medieval Milan that still exists. It was a popular area, inhabited by workers and employees, who lived in constant contact in the houses of railings, houses that overlooked a common courtyard and shared daily life in common.
This popular formation will be strengthened by the outbreak of the conflict: however, in the Svampa home only Italian is spoken, by the explicit will of Nanni's parents.
He moved as a displaced person with his mother first to Sangiano and then to Porto Valtravaglia, in the province of Varese, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, he grew up in a still rural and provincial world, which will greatly influence his artistic future.
Musical studies and discoveries
After his scientific high school diploma, Svampa, advised and convinced by his father, enrolled at Bocconi and graduated in Economics and Commerce. The experience gained in the search for a first job, suited to his paternal will, inspired him to the song Io vado in bank (later brought to success in the cabaretist interpretation of I Gufi).
During his university period, in 1959, he approached the musical world, founding and participating as a voice and guitar as a whole: I soliti Idioti. The goliardic nature of the first stage adventures came to a halt in 1960, when Svampa began to listen to and appreciate the performances of Georges Brassens.
In 1961, enlisted in the military service, with the time available, he began to translate Brassens, from French to the Milanese dialect. This continuous exercise of learning dialectal expressions will bring him very close to popular songs and Lombard musical traditions.
The solo activity
After the dissolution of the I Gufi, Nanni Svampa continued his collaboration with Patruno, focusing his activity in theatrical performances, such as Addio Tabarin and Un giorno after another, and above all in the creation of an anthology of Milanese popular songs.
Divided into twelve volumes, Milanese - Anthology of Lombard song, it represents one of the major collections of study and research on the musical and dialectal history of the city.
At the same time his interest in Brassens did not cease, and he will continue to take care of the translations, both in Italian and in Milanese, of his songs by him.
He died in Varese on August 26, 2017 at the age of 79. He had been sick for some time.
Acknowledgments
After his death the Municipality of Milan decided to inscribe his name in the Pantheon After his death the Municipality of Milan decided to inscribe his name in the Pantheon of Milan, inside the Monumental Cemetery.
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