I Santo California

[Geno]

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The Santo California is a historical complex of Italian music founded in the seventies, still in business.

The complex, in its first suite, includes five young musicians that base Nocera Inferiore and Angri: Pietro Barbella, Donato Farina, Domenico Aiello, Gianni Galizia, Massimo Caso, who have baptized their artistic association as the New Frontier. As a practice, the band starts playing in the venues, in the square parties, and in the summer at the seaside resorts of the Amalfi Coast. In 1974 the New Frontier performs on the stage of the patron saint of Nocera Inferiore in preview compared to the singer Iva Zanicchi: on this occasion the band is noticed by Elio Palumbo, a Roman record, which convokes the members of the complex in Rome at the record company Yep; Here, the five musicians sign a contract and change the name of the band, assuming that of Santa Claus. This training began to record in 1975 with the first 45-track disc called Tornerò (music by Ignazio Polizzy Carbonelli, Claudio Natili, Marcello Ramoino, Elio Palumbo's lyrics), a track that has become a major international success, a gold record for selling over a million of copies in Italy, launched by television broadcast On the Seven of the evening conducted by Christian De Sica.

With this song the complex imposes itself as one of the cornerstones of that pseudo-romantic lodging of the melodic music of the seventies.

The song Tornerò will be translated into several languages ​​and will give the band a great opportunity abroad, where it also receives a remarkable appreciation for the entire production; nevertheless in Italy the complex is subjected to the ostracism of certain organizers, which affects the (forced) absence of the band from the main TV shows.

In 1977, the band participated in the Sanremo Festival with the song Monica (music by Giacomo Simonelli and Paolo Pinna, text by Elio Palumbo), which is ranked third in the final standings.

The Santo Californian complex, which is still in business, in the years to come has gained track recordings with the publication of first edition songs until the first half of the eighties; later, though with some changes and re-training, he found space especially with anthologies of original production or with re-edited song proposals with new arrangements.

In 1994, the band released 1994 For A Better World, a very impressive concept album, in which the usual pop style of the band was embellished with busy texts devoted to the spirituality and the inner dimension of humanity. The album is still on sale in digital format.

In 2014, they participated in Gianni Turco's MilleVoci television broadcast.

In 2015, Checco Zalone puts their song back in his film Quo I Go ?.

[Geno]

Tornerò -  I Santo California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNM4-5YVSo

The song Tornerò will be translated into several languages and will give the band a great opportunity abroad, where it also receives a remarkable appreciation for the entire production; nevertheless in Italy the complex is subject to the ostracism of certain organizers, which affects the (forced) absence of the band from major television shows

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Please reload the Style for this song   :08:     Please keep in mind that whenever SMF sees an accent or something similar, it will not show correctly.......  I had to re-up the files after removing the "accent"

All you need to do, is to remove the accent and re-up..

Thanks
Ron