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Gino Paoli

Musician
Forlisteners curious about classic italian singer-songwriters, 1960s italian pop, and the genoese songwriting tradition.
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The Profile

Gino Paoli is an Italian singer-songwriter associated with the Genoese/Ligurian school of cantautori. Emerging in the early 1960s (label: Ricordi), he became known for poetic, introspective writing and enduring classics such as “Il cielo in una stanza,” “Sapore di sale,” and “Senza fine.” His career is described in the reviews as having a notable renaissance in the mid-1980s and renewed mass success in the early 1990s.

Publicly known as an Italian cantautore (singer-songwriter), born in 1934, closely linked to Genoa and the Genoese songwriting milieu. Widely credited with writing/performing major Italian standards including “Il cielo in una stanza,” “Sapore di sale,” and “Senza fine.”

Across these reviews, Paoli is portrayed as a cornerstone of Italian songwriting: refined, introspective, and capable of making simple forms feel profound. The focus lands on his classic 1960s repertoire, a creative rebirth around the mid-1980s, and broad success again in the early 1990s. Reviewers highlight his poetic approach to love, his independent character, and (in the book) major biographical episodes, including the 1963 suicide attempt. Ratings skew high, with a few more mixed takes on specific projects.

Notable Quotes

❝ “there is no answer. Each of us is everyone and no one. Love remains, perhaps, to tell us who we are”
❝ “the roads are right, even the wrong ones, just never be certain. I have no certainties but only doubts”
❝ “those who believe they can save themselves never save themselves alone, if you have no companions your road has no outlets to the sun”
❝ “Suicide is the only arrogant way given to a man to decide about himself. But I am proof that not even then you can truly decide,”
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