APRIL, 2021

by Maria A. Avveduto

Alessandro Guido Baroni is the full name of the singer Alex Baroni.
Alex graduated in chemistry at the University of Milano and this passion is handed down to him and his brother Guido by his mother Marina who is a mathematician and by his father Giovanni who is a physicist.
But Alex shows since childhood an innate passion for music and forms a group with some friends with whom he begins to sing covers of well-known singers.
In the 90s he devoted himself to music singing in Milanese clubs, then he began to be part of choirs in some albums, first of all "Another road" by the Genoese singer-songwriter Massimiliano Cattapani.
Then he becomes a chorister of great musicians such as Eros Ramazzotti, Ivana Spagna, Francesco Baccini and Rossana Casale. He forms a band with Andrea Zuppini and realizes his first album "Don't forget Disneyland" produced by Eros Ramazzotti with whom Alex duets in the song that gives the title to the album.
In the reissue of the disc which took place in 2007 the song "Lettera" was also added, which was then republished in the "Alex Baroni Collection" published in 2007.
Shortly after she joined the RAI Orchestra and as a chorister participates in the Sanremo Festival in 1996.
In 1997 he began the collaboration with his producers Marco Rinalduzzi and Massimo Calabrese who will write with him almost all the songs in his repertoire.
He made his debut in the "Youth" category of the Sanremo Festival in 1997 with the song "Cambiare" and won the prize as "Best voice" of the Festival awarded by the jury chaired by Luciano Pavarotti.
At the same time his album comes out under the record label "Dischi Ricordi" which contains the Sanremo song "Cambiare" and other successful songs. The album reaches an important place in the charts or 38 and is placed in the "Top 200" of 1997 at 176th place.
In 1997 he collaborated on the Italian version of the soundtrack of the Walt Disney film, "Hercules", giving voice to the male protagonist at a young age.
In the same year he is also present at the well-known "Premio Città di Recanati" where he sings with an emerging singer.
He returns to the Sanremo Festival the following year, in 2018, with the song "Sei o lei (What I want)" this time in the "Big" category thanks to the place obtained in the charts with the previous album.
In 2018 in May, Alex Baroni participates in "Sanremo Top" from where his tour will begin.
In February 1999 Alex Baroni was awarded in the Capitol with the "Oscar dei Giovani" award for the previous year.
He participates in Ivan Graziani's posthumous album interpreting a song with Umberto Tozzi entitled "It was a journey", a song signed by Graziani himself for the music while the lyrics are signed by Renato Zero.
Also in 1999 he released his third album entitled "Ultimamente" which contains the song "Liquid Floor", which also sees the participation of Renato Zero as the author of the text of the song "And the sky took me with him".
He tries again the selection at the Sanremo Festival with the song "Liquid floor" but is not allowed.
Unfortunately, the album does not get the success of the two previous albums but Alex still begins his tour which will last two years and does not give up free and charity concerts.
He collaborates with the singer Giorgia for the album "Girasole" and in particular for the drafting of "E 'the truth" and then later the collaboration will continue with the song "Before tomorrow" contained in the album "Senza Ali" by Giorgia released in 2001.
Giorgia on her part will also participate in Alex's projects, collaborating with him on the text of "Outside my window".
Alex Baroni will start international collaborations such as with Simon Le Bon, singer and lyricist of Duran Duran, George Michael the ex Wham !, and Boy George ex leader of the Culture Club.
His life is brutally interrupted following a road accident that took place on the afternoon of March 19, 2002 in Rome when he was hit by a car while he was on board his motorcycle. Alex was thrown from the bike and catapulted into another car that was traveling at high speed.
He is hospitalized with an irreversible state of coma at the "Santo Spirito" hospital and dies 25 days later on the morning of April 13 at the young age of 35.
His funeral takes place in Milan two days after his private death and today Alex is buried in the "Greek" cemetery in Milan.
Everyone remembers the important love story he had with the singer Giorgia whom he met in 1997 and was by her side until the day of her disappearance.
Giorgia experienced moments of great suffering that marked her profoundly.
Last year Alex's mother Marina went missing after contracting the coronavirus.
In 2002, immediately after her death, a collection entitled "Simply Alex Baroni" was released, which will become the singer's best-selling album and will reach position number 2 in the charts and will even be placed at number 17 in the Italian chart in the same year. exit.
His beloved Giorgia dedicated three songs to him: Forever, Gocce di memoria and Marzo. But Alex's presence also inspires the songs "L'eternità" and "Parlo con te".
Over the years numerous collections dedicated to the artistic memory of the great Alex Baroni have been released, the latest being the "Alex Baroni Collection".
In honor of him, the "Voci Nuove" award of the Adriatic Festival has been renamed the "Alex Baroni Award".
The Sanremo Festival also dedicates a tribute, albeit momentarily, to Alex, dedicating him the "Critics Award" for the "New Proposals" category.
The Paola & Chiara album entitled "Festival" and Giorgia's album entitled "Things never go as you think" are dedicated to him.
A few days ago, the thirteenth of April, marks the nineteenth anniversary of the death of the young and extraordinary singer-songwriter who left us early, too soon.
"Divi & Cinema" wants to remember him in this way with a memory of the director Annarita Campo who met him a few years before his death and met the day before his tragic death.
<<I met Alex in 1996. Our friendship was born as a result of a fax sent by me to a television broadcast that Alex kept and then he replied by letter giving me his phone number. A splendid person with a beautiful and pure soul. Then we got lost for some time due to both private and professional commitments and we met again by fate the day before his accident. I was at the studios studying as a director and he happened to be there to meet someone. I went to the bar and he went out. As soon as he saw me his eyes sparkled and he came to meet me calling me by name, he had a great joy to see me. He went back to the bar with me and we had coffee together. We both went out we said. Let's take a picture together so we can immortalize this moment. And that was the last photo taken of Alex Baroni. He got on his motorbike and ran away to meet what would have been his destiny. premature of him. I will always remember his sweetness, his splendid smile, the clear eyes that shone with cleanliness and I will always remember his songs and listening to his songs I will always remember him. Of the wonderful Alex with the beautiful heart! >>.
This is how we remember Alex Baroni 19 years after his death. 
 

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