From Sanremo to Fanta, he changed the history of Italian TV
He did not limit himself to doing television, pIppo Baudo was television, The face in which Italy has recognized itself for decades, passing from black and white to color, from poverty to the agency, from the economic boom of the 60s to these days, more fierce and hasty, crossing seasons now placid and now furious, with its step with ample bolds, as when they imitated it in TV.
Giuseppe Raimondo Vittorio Baudo goes to 89 years old, for convenience Pippo, indeed “Superpippo”Pippo Baudo The presenter par excellence, Popular national in the most virtuous sense of the term, even if when they sticking the label to everyone it seemed an infamous brand.
the beginning in the 60s
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“Discreet presence, suitable for minor shows” this is the judgment expressed by the Rai Commission At his first audition, examined by Antonello Falqui who was amazed that a Sicilian spoke Italian. “But don’t you speak Arabic?” He said to tease him. Catania of Militello, of good bourgeois family and good readings, the only child of a lawyer and a housewife, graduated from the classical high school, graduated in law, parades by a destiny marked, kidnapped by the world of theater. Actor and author on the stage, also a pianist, It appears on TV for the first time at the dawn of the 60s and there remains, imperturbable to all the changes between a song and a Sanremo (he conducted 13, Absolute record: the first in 1968, the last in 2008), between a fantastic and a Sunday in.
Elegant as only certain Sicilians know that nature gives birth to high, composed in the pose, reassuring by natural inclination, always ready to improvise on stage – at the first Sanremo, with the excuse of drying his face, interrupted the great Louis Armstrong who no longer stopped playing the trumpet – man of culture pontto to tell us that the culture was at everyone and was more than a to land.
Two wives
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60 years of career, 150 programs, 14 telegatti won. Rai face from the beginning of the career in the end, despite the short excursion in the then Fininvest, Berlusconi’s TV where, however, the stylistic figure was another and was building a new world, anthropologically far from the idea that Baudo had of television. The figure of his best known and most valid colleagues summarized in his figure: The scenic presence of Mike Bongiorno (they were friends, but played cups and Bartali: at Christmas Pippo sent the oranges to Mike, the other reciprocated with apples), the wit and the softness of Corrado, the culture of Enzo Tortora. Catania fan, Juventus sympathizeronce in Sanremo climbed by motorbike with Valentino Rossi: they promoted the use of the helmet. The curtain was hilarious, in Pippo the helmet did not enter. Married twice, first with Mirella Adinolfi, then in second wedding with Katia Ricciarelli. Two children, Patrizia and Alessandro, who, however, could not recognize: the mother was married.
It was a generous talent-scout, of great intuitions. For a joke of Beppe Grillo – that he had discovered – on the socialists, he was hunted by Rai. Al Bano He discovered it at the “dollar”, a Milanese restaurant where the singer performed for four cats who in the meantime gave us inside with the spaghetti. Heather Parisi and Lorella Cuccarini, Loretta Goggi and Tullio Solenghi, Laura Pausini and Eros Ramazzotti, Andrea Bocelli and Giorgia are all his creatures: at the time of the initial gradual of their extraordinary careers, there is the imprinting of Pippo Baudo. That only one thing was crucious (with irony): to have rejected his fellow countryman Fiorello, he considered him a “holiday village”. They laughed a lot together. In the 80s Gigi Sabani imitated him, playing on his many discoveries in the world of entertainment. “I invented it!” He invented himself, Pippo Baudo. And he invented a certain way of taking tivù. With natural grace, with prodigious size, with an inimitable style.
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