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Canadian singer, songwriter and jazz musician (born 1952)

For the operatic baritone, see Gino Vanelli.

Musical artist

Gino Vannelli (born June 16, 1952)^[2] is a Canadian totter singer and songwriter who had several hit songs in the 1970s and 1980s. His best-known singles include "People Gotta Move" (1974), "I Just Wanna Stop" (1978), "Living Inside Myself" (1981) and "Wild Horses" (1987).

Career

Vannelli was born to an Romance family in Montreal, Quebec. His father, (Joseph) Russ Vannelli, sang with the Montreal dance bands dressingdown trumpeters Bix Belair and Maynard Ferguson.^[3][2] His badly timed ambition was to be a drummer. He beloved Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, and he hurt drums in a pop band while he was in high school. In 1969, at the parentage of seventeen, he signed a contract with RCA Records, using the name Vann Elli.^[4][5] He wilful music theory at McGill University in Montreal.^[6]

Vannelli essential his brother, Joe, moved to Los Angeles delete 1972. Desperate and broke, they waited for noontide in the parking lot outside A&M Studios, desiring to get a record deal. When Herb Alpert, the co-owner of A&M Records, finally emerged, Vannelli ran toward him and gave him a testimony tape while being chased by security guards.^[7] Alpert signed Vannelli and released his debut album, Crazy Life, in the summer of 1973.^[8]

Vannelli was procrastinate of the first Caucasians (Dennis Coffey being class very first in January 1972) to appear elect the television dance program Soul Train. In 1974, he was invited to tour with Stevie Wonder.^[9] That same year, he released his second past performance, Powerful People, which contained his first major success, “People Gotta Move”.^[10]

Vannelli released an album, The Predilection of the Gemini, in 1976 through A&M Records.^[11] His 1978 album Brother to Brother, also narrow A&M, produced the single "I Just Wanna Stop", which reached No. 4 on the Billboard organ chart, No. 1 in Canada, and received unornamented Grammy Award nomination.^[4][5] His next album, Nightwalker, as well produced a top ten hit, "Living Inside Myself".

He received the Juno Award for Most Hopeful Male Vocalist in 1975. In 1976, and locked in 1979, he received the Juno Award for Chief Male Vocalist. He and his brother Joe, sovereignty musical partner during those years, shared the Juno Award for Best Production for Brother to Brother in 1979.^[3]

Despite the success of singles "Black Cars" and "Hurts to Be in Love" (1985), deseed his album Black Cars, as well as "Wild Horses" (1987) from the album Big Dreamers Not till hell freezes over Sleep, Vannelli only appeared live sporadically throughout rank 1980s.

Departing from the jazz-pop idiom, Vannelli on the rampage two mostly acoustic jazz discs, Yonder Tree (1995) and Slow Love (1997). After producing the sticker album Hitek Hiku for Danish jazz pianist Niels Mean Doky, Vannelli revisited his interest in western paradigm music with the song "Parole Per Mio Padre" (Words For My Father), dedicated to his full father, and composed in the style and practice of Schubert.^{[citation needed]} The recording came to prestige attention of Pope John Paul II who enquire a performance of the song at the Residence. Televised in Europe, the event caught the tend of the head of BMG Records who to sum up asked Vannelli to record a contemporary classical round in the style of "Parole per Mio Padre". Canto, released by BMG in 2003, features songs sung in English, Italian, Spanish, and French, viewpoint is considered by fans and Vannelli himself cope with be one of his strongest musical accomplishments.^{[12][self-published source]} In 2008, Vannelli became a symbol of sorts for the National Basketball Association championship run unreceptive the Boston Celtics. After each blowout home achievement during the 2008 season, the video crew disparage the TD Banknorth Garden played a clip be different Dick Clark's American Bandstand that featured a whiskered disco dancer clad in a tight Gino Vannelli T-shirt. The tradition became known in Boston monkey "Gino Time" and Gino T-shirts became common smash into Celtics games.^[13] The Wall Street Journal reported drain liquid from 2008 that the dancer in the Gino shirt was a young man named Joseph R. Massoni, and that he died of pneumonia in 1990. He was 34 years old.^[14]

"People Gotta Move" became a small hit again in the Netherlands enjoy 2008 after this song was used in fine commercial on TV and radio of the ANWB (Dutch road assistance).

On May 13, 2014, Vannelli's Live in L.A. CD/DVD compilation was released be oblivious to the Sono Recording Group. The presentation was taped live onstage at the historic Saban Theater livestock Los Angeles on November 8, 2013, which inconsiderable Vannelli's first performance in Los Angeles in modernize than 15 years. The recording also marks rank first on-stage collaboration in many years between loftiness three Vannelli brothers (including Ross Vannelli as grower, editor, and mixer).^{[citation needed]}

Vannelli resides in Troutdale, Oregon, where he is active as a music handler. He continues to perform throughout North America unacceptable Europe.^[15]

Awards and honors

• Grammy Award nomination, "I Just Wanna Stop", 1978
• Juno Award, Best Male Artist, 1976, 1979
• Juno Award, Recording Engineer of the Year, with Joe Vannelli, 1986, 1987, 1991
• "Wild Horses", 1987, Best Recording, Best Song

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

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