Gianluca Grignani’s career
Gianluca Grignani’s career has spanned nearly thirty years and counting 10 albums, 3 collections, 5 million of records sold, as well as critical awards, that defined him one of the pillars of Italian rock.
He picked up the guitar for the first time at 14, a teenager, and began to perform in different places in his areacontinuing to study at the Music Profession Center of Milan. Shortly after she met Vince Tempera and Massimo Luca, who introduced her to major record companies of the period.
Meanwhile, to support himself, he does all possible and imaginable jobs, from clerk to the masonfrom the peddler atanimator.
The Milanese singer-songwriter Gianluca Grignani, born in 1972, at the Sanremo Festival 2015. (Getty Images)
In 1994 he ends up under contract with PolyGram, with which he goes to Sanremo Giovani bringing the song My story between my fingers to then present himself at the Festival, among the New Proposalswith the song Paradise destination.
In 1995 he released his first album, Paradise destinationfollowed by The plastic factory in 1996. Two years later he returned to the market with Fields of popcornfollowed by his fourth album, in 2000, Lying on a cloud and from Same and differentwhich contains the hit The flowerbed.
The album Paradise destination
Between 2005 and 2014 he released another six albums, from The king of nothing to A road in the middle of the sky.
Gianluca Grignani’s family
After a relationship with Amber Angioliniwhen she was one of the girls of It’s not Ray on 7 September 2003 Gianluca marries Francesca Dall’Oliowhich made him the father of four children Guinevere, Giselle, Joshua Joshua and Jonah.
“The eldest chose to live with me in Brianza,” she said. «I am a father full of fears. I don’t know if I’ll be up to it, if I’ll be able to do well. Once Giselle asked me if being an artist meant being like me».
After 17 years of marriage, however, Gianluca and Francesca have separatedwithout specifying the reasons for the breakup.
Below, with two of his 4 children
Today, Gianluca is a 50-year-old man who has all the scars of someone who lived without a parachute, also suffering a great deal. But this has led him to finally be a mature person. «I love that Gianluca Grignani they call more in general Joker (nickname given to him from the title of one of his songs from 1998, ed). That part of me that it’s hard to balance».