Nanni Svampa: Milanese singer-songwriter and Brassens interpreter

Nanni Svampa

Musician

Forfans of italian cabaret and folk, lovers of georges brassens' translations, and anyone interested in milanese dialect song and regional anthologies.
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The Profile

Milanese singer-songwriter and cabaret artist, leader of the group I Gufi, known for translating and adapting Georges Brassens' songs into Milanese/dialect and for compiling anthologies of Lombard/Milanese songs.

Leader of the Milanese cabaret group I Gufi; author/curator of the multi-volume 'Milanese. Antologia della canzone lombarda' (1970s, multiple LPs as documented in reviews); longtime interpreter of Georges Brassens' songs in Italian/Milanese; albums discussed in reviews include All'osteria (1978) and the live W Brassens! (released 1999 as noted in reviews).

Reviews highlight Nanni Svampa as a Milanese singer-songwriter and cabaret figure celebrated for his Milanese/dialect adaptations of Georges Brassens. His albums All'osteria and W Brassens! are praised for authenticity, irony and faithful recontextualization of Brassens' themes into Milanese life. Svampa is remembered as leader of I Gufi and compiler/performer of Lombard song anthologies.

Notable Quotes

❝ If you good folks like coming to the theater, I'll keep making songs: I don't need anything else; if you don't like them, I'll put them in the drawer and return to the hammock to enjoy my nice little dreams.

❝ Great Nanni Svampa, capable of making us smile by putting our little weaknesses into poetry and irony, a Trilussa of the North who wrote them but then also sang them.