Mango (singer)

thumb|Mango in 1985 Giuseppe "Pino" Mango (6 November 1954 – 8 December 2014), better known mononymously as Mango, was an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Quotes (About the album entitled L'albero delle Fate) In my mind, the L'Albero delle Fate is a tree that we should all climb to reach the highest branch and pick the most beautiful, most important fruit. All adults should strive to rediscover the Tree of Fairies. It is, if you like, a metaphor for the imagination we have as children but lose as we grow up. Without imagination, man is nothing. From the interview to sundayradio.it. My roots are important. I think of a blank sheet of paper on which I draw a dot with a pencil. It is essential to be able to recognise oneself in a more general context. But if globalisation means taking into account the positive aspects of many realities, I continue to be Lucano, but I am open to what others can teach me. Therefore, as someone once said, I become a citizen of the world without losing the link with my origins. From the interview to sundayradio.it. I am a believer in my own way: I cannot believe that everything is born and ends, otherwise life would have no reason to exist; I do not bother with divinities, I believe first and foremost in man. I do not choose this or that confession: religions create too many prejudices. Mango al Saschall la voce degli angeli diventa bestseller , repubblica.it, 23 October 2002. My relationship with communication is good in some ways and disastrous in others. Those who participate in Sanremo, for example, have four minutes to tell you a little about their world. Television is a truly absurd medium, capable of destroying any type of artist. Quoted in I consigli di lettura di... Mango, wuz.it, 18 March 2005. In Gaber, the solidarity between words and sound becomes a gesture and a place in which to push the song: and thus Teatro Canzone is born, intelligent cabaret made up of sound and satire, daily tears and ancestral smiles, artistic paintings and popular songs. With Giorgio Gaber, words traverse the space of life and passionately engage in dialectical encounter with the voice of the heart: just like those who know that words are silk pyjamas, and the night is the altar that takes on their contours. From Poeta come Neruda; in Andrea Pedrinelli (editor), Gaber, Giorgio, il Signor G. Raccontato da intellettuali, amici, artisti, Kowalski, Milano, 2008, p. 94. ISBN 978-88-7496-754-4. Words take up our fears and certainties, organising them in such a way as to give them a completely new life and colour: from time to time, they precipitate and climb them like new rural and urban destinies, as if they were mists drowned by the sun and distributed over the heads of real and uncertain men. From Poeta come Neruda; in Andrea Pedrinelli (editor), Gaber, Giorgio, il Signor G. Raccontato da intellettuali, amici, artisti, Kowalski, Milano, 2008 p. 93. ISBN 978-88-7496-754-4 (About Giorgio Gaber) A multifaceted artist to the point of confusing and mixing within himself his being a great actor and great singer, and then a mime, and then a subtle reciter, and then again a man with an unmistakable vocal timbre, marked like the brushstrokes of a great painter. From Poeta come Neruda; in Andrea Pedrinelli (editor), Gaber, Giorgio, il Signor G. Raccontato da intellettuali, amici, artisti, Kowalski, Milano, 2008, p. 94. ISBN 978-88-7496-754-4. I hate covers and the term “cover” because it means remaking songs. It's a concept that will never work because the comparison with the original, rightly considered untouchable, is inevitable, and it's also a bit stupid to make comparisons [...]. I try to discover the core of songs and make them my own with my style. Mango: "Odio le cover e le reinvento", tgcom24.mediaset.it, 24 May 2014. Quotes about He had a heavenly, world-class voice: if he had been born in a country other than Italy, he could have been even more successful. But he was happy at home, in Lagonegro. He was a quiet guy [...] Italian music has lost something very important, something he perhaps never fully understood. His full potential was never realised. Mara Maionchi, quoted in Mango, il ricordo di Mara Maionchi: una voce tra cielo e terra, ilgiornale.it, 17 December 2014. I started out in the 1980s singing “Lei Verrà” in piano bars. It was one of the songs that gave me the chance to start my musical career. The news of his death is shocking. Mango will always be remembered as a great artist, because death cannot silence a voice and a song. Marco Masini, RDF.it I have always respected Mango, a virtuoso and decent singer, always on stage performing his art, right up to the end. J-Ax, quoted in Mango, biografia e carriera: i messaggi di cordoglio dei colleghi spopolano sul web, Lanostratv.it, 8 December 2014. Mango's death is one of the most touching moments I can remember. An artist who feels ill on stage, apologises to the audience for the disturbance before dying is absolutely incredible. Of course, Mango's style was far from mine, but I wanted to celebrate the person, the artist who was true to himself until the very last minute, with incredible respect for his audience. .*Willie Peyote, quoted in Ernesto Assante, Willie Peyote, il rapper che non t'aspetti: "La morte di Mango è uno dei momenti più toccanti che ricordi", repubblica.it, 26 October 2019. I didn't know him very well personally. I met him a few times, but I was enchanted by his talent and his unique voice. I saw many of his concerts. Once, at the Sistina in Rome, I was in the audience and at the end his brother Armando, whom I knew better, approached me and took me to his dressing room to meet him. I went in and saw him putting his things in a bag. He smiled at me and shook my hand with simplicity and warmth. My village is 19 km from his, which made him my closest idol. I adore his songs, his inimitable style, his notes that pierce the glass of my soul like diamonds. Rocco Papaleo, quoted in La Basilicata (e l'Italia intera) piange il cantautore lucano Mango, trmtv.it, 8 December 2014. But why, in Italy, does a great artist have to die before he is recognised? Enrico Montesano, quoted in Tale e Quale Show – Il torneo: una serata ricca di ricordi e … risate!, superguidatv.it, 20 November 2016. One of the most beautiful voices in the Mediterranean. Pino Daniele, quoted in L'addio a Mango dei cantanti italiani, radioitalia.it, 8 December 2014. Mogol He was a generous artist. He had a kind heart and exceptional sensitivity, as all of Italy saw when he felt ill on stage. He was a true Lucanian, a different kind of artist with a unique quality that cannot be found even in other great artists. Quoted in Applausi e commozione, a Lagonegro l'ultimo omaggio a Mango, Repubblica.it, 10 December 2014. If you listen to Mango's records now, you realise that he is a world number one. Quoted in SIAE Racconta. Fedez incontra Mogol, Youtube.com, 28 November 2023. Mario Luzzatto Fegiz Mango was a unique case in Italian pop music: he was able to combine refined melodies with a touch of vocal experimentalism and a sprinkling of ethnic influences, without losing sight of rock or singer-songwriter music, genres from which he always carefully avoided drawing any effects, chords or practices that were in any way predictable. Quoted in Mango, la voce divenuta strumento che ha rinnovato la musica leggera, corriere.it, 8 December 2014. Metaphorically speaking, one could say that Mango plays the part of an elf who moves nimbly and stealthily in a complex architectural environment, without knocking over the crystal glassware whose exact location only he knows, in a very pictorial and never banal vocal-instrumental ensemble. In his case, one can speak of “a voice that becomes an instrument with special modulations”. Quoted in Mango, la voce divenuta strumento che ha rinnovato la musica leggera, corriere.it, 8 December 2014. External links Giuseppe Mango Mango Category:1954 births Category:2014 deaths Category:Musicians from Italy Category:People from Basilicata Category:Singers from Italy Category:Songwriters from Italy