Giovanna Daffini (22 April 1914 – 7 July 1969) was an Italian singer, associated with the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano movement.
Life edit
Born at Villa Saviola, in the province of Mantua, she started associating with travelling musicians from an early age. During the rice-growing season she worked in the rice-growing districts of Novara and Vercelli; it was here that she learned the folk-songs which would eventually make her famous. Later, she was accompanied by her husband Vittorio Carpi on violin, with whom she would perform at wedding dances and country festivals.[1]
In 1962 she recorded the song "Alla mattina appena alzata", a version of Bella Ciao, for the musicologists Gianni Bosio and Roberto Leydi.[2]
She died at Gualtieri (Reggio Emilia), where she had spent much of her life, in 1969.
Recordings edit
EP edit
- 1964 - La mariuleina - Canzoni padane (I dischi del sole) DS 32
LPs edit
- 1967 - Una voce un paese (I dischi del sole) DS 146/48
- 1975 - Amore mio non piangere (I dischi del sole) DS 1063/65
45 edit
- 1967 - Festa d'aprile / Ama chi ti ama (I dischi del sole) LR 45/4
CD edit
- 1991 - L'amata genitrice (I dischi del mulo) 300 004-2
Bibliography edit
- Maria Chiara Periotto (Ed.), Giovanna Daffini: il segno vitale del canto, Comune di Motteggiana 2001
- Cesare Bermani (Ed.), Giovanna Daffini, l'amata genitrice, Comune di Gualtieri 1993
- Serafino Prati, Giovanna Daffini cantastorie, Edizioni Libreria Rinascita 1975
- Aldo Vitale, in: Ethnomusicologie, éditions Paris 3, ACPI, 1978
References edit
- ^ La Canzone Popolare - Giovanna Daffini
- ^ Giovanna Daffini: "Alla mattina appena alzata", from the CD: Giovanna Daffini: L’amata genitrice (1991)