The Best Of Zucchero: Sugar Fornaciari's Greatest Hits (CD)

Zucchero is one of Italy's biggest pop exports, an international star whose style has more to do with American music than with the musical traditions of his own country. Zucchero (Italian for "sugar"), was born Adelmo Fornaciari in 1955. Heavily influenced by American blues, soul, and rock, he embarked on a singing career in the '70s, but he first became known in Italy through other artists' versions of his songs. In the '80s he became a star in his own right, and he crossed over to the UK market in the early '90s via a duet with Paul Young. Over the years, he's recorded and toured with a wide array of musical gentry from England and America, including John Lee Hooker, Eric Clapton, Sting, and Sheryl Crow.

• Category:  Music  »  European Music  »  Italian
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: April 22, 1997
• Label: Mercury
• UPC: 731453749221
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105802288
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #74538 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1241 in European Music (See Top 100 European Music Bestsellers)
• #153 in Italian (See Top 100 Italian Bestsellers)

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In the late 1980s and throughout the '90s, Zucchero (a.k.a. Adelmo Fornaciari) was one of the biggest musical stars in Italy, thanks to his fine songwriting and powerful, emotive singing. BEST OF ZUCCHERO provides a fine overview of the singer-songwriter's career, and includes his biggest hits as well as unreleased tracks. Though he is sometimes compared to countryman Andrea Bocelli, Zucchero has more of a rock-&-roll edge to his singing and composing, bringing a happy and sometimes propulsive energy to his take on adult contemporary pop.

Zucchero also broadens his appeal by singing in both Italian and English, and both are equally affecting, thanks to his rough-hewn, though quite lyrical voice (which bears a resemblance, at times, to Peter Gabriel's). Whether on atmospheric mid-tempo tracks ("Eppure Non T'amo"), surging ballads ("Senza Una Donna"), or uptempo rockers ("Diavolo In Me"), Zucchero has something for everyone, and BEST OF is the best place to sample his talents.

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