Ligabue
Luciano Ligabue was born in Correggio in 1960. His first concert, with the Emilian rock group Orazero, was held in a cultural centre in Correggio in 1987. A year later, Pierangelo Bertoli decided to publish a song written by Luciano Ligabue on his album Sogni di rock and roll. In July of the same year, Ligabue and the group Orazero won the Terremoto rock contest. Their prize was to be able to record a single containing the songs "Anime in plexiglass" (Plexiglass Souls) and "Bar Mario".
In May 1990, he recorded his first LP, Ligabue. With "Balliamo sul mondo" (Let's Dance on the World), Ligabue won Festivalbar Giovani and embarked upon a series of concerts (more than 250) which would continue until the end of 1993.
His two subsequent albums, "Lambrusco, coltelli (knives), rose (roses) & popcorn" and "Sopravvissuti e sopravviventi" (Survivors and Survivers), confirmed the exceptional talent shown in his debut album, but still they are not sufficient to mark him out as a major figure in Italian rock music in the eye of the public and critics.
In 1995, Ligabue released the album that once and for all established his reputation as a star of Italian rock. "Buon compleanno, Elvis" (Happy Birthday, Elvis) sold more than a million copies and stayed in the album charts for 70 weeks. Ligabue set off on a 15-concert tour that confirmed his now enormous success.
