Gianni Morandi on DeBaser: bargain bins, anthems, and a few false steps

The Profile

Gianni Morandi is an Italian pop singer and actor from Monghidoro (Bologna), active since the early 1960s and known for enduring hits and a major 1980s comeback.

Won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1987 with Umberto Tozzi and Enrico Ruggeri (“Si può dare di più”); hosted the Festival di Sanremo in 2011 and 2012 and returned as a co-host in 2023; prolific recording and touring career since the 1960s.

Three reviews cover Morandi’s arc from 1960s hits to an ’80s comeback. One celebrates the shambolic charm of a bargain-bin compilation, another salutes Uno su mille’s resilience, and a third calls Gianni cinque a misstep. Overall tone swings from affectionate irony to sharp critique. Publicly, Morandi remains a pillar of Italian pop from the 1960s onward.

Notable Quotes

❝ "Primo Piano: Gianni Morandi" from 1998 is a splendid example of a collection published without any logical criteria: it is so approximative and senseless that it becomes captivating in its ugliness.

❝ "Uno Su Mille" is known by everyone, also because sooner or later many find themselves humming it when times are tough, and you need an extra pinch of strength.