Cthe audio Cecchetto (71 years old) was the king of talent scouts in the eighties and nineties. With a fundamental role in defining the star system of those years, from radio to TV and vice versa. To understand all the genius of him, tonight at 9.30pm on Rai 1is on the air People from Cecchettior. A documentary film that celebrates him for the great character which it was and which it still holds. From the opinions on the current state of the show to the talents he has discovered and which still dominate music and schedules. From Jovanotti to 883, from Fiorello to Amadeus.
People from Cecchetto: who is Claudio Cecchetto
Record producer, disc jockey, talent scout, radio and television host, Claudio Cecchetto was born near Venice in 1952. At a very young age, he moved to Milan to study at the University, but he dropped out of university early to dedicate himself to music, his true passion.
With the advent of the first private radios, in a handful of years it became the reference name for teenagers, to the point that, at just 25 years old and thanks to Mike Bongiorno, debuts on Rai as conductor of Discoring. Transmission created together with Gianni Boncompagni.
Visionary and interceptor of fashionsCecchetto begins dictate “rules” and trendsbecoming a real media phenomenon which will lead him to host Sanremo three times, record cult songs like Play Jouer and present the big Saturday night variety shows.
One for all Fantastic, together with Gigi Sabani and Heather Parisi. Then, towards the mid-eighties, the move to Mediaset (then Fininvest), the foundation of Radio Deejay and the management of Festivalbar.
Claudio Cecchetto at the time of “Popcorn”. (Getty Images)
The guests of the docufilm: from Jovanotti to Sabrina Salerno
Considered by several generations, and with good reason, The talent scout of Italian entertainmentin the 1980s Cecchetto abandoned TV for dedicate themselves almost exclusively to musical production and the search for new talents at 360 degrees.
The first singer he launches is Sandy Marton – that of People from Ibiza so to speak, hence the title of this special. They then follow Tracy Spencer with the success of Run to meTaffy and many other names, including TV ones.
Sabrina Salerno in “People from Cecchetto”. (Rai Documentaries)
Then Gerry Scotti, FiorelloAmadeus, JovanottiSabrina Salerno, Leonardo Pieraccioni e Fabio Volo. Who is entrusted with the task of tell the character and the man Cecchettothrough a collage of memories, anecdotes and reflections.
The film is in fact one sort of “compilation” of topics and suggestions that tell the story of the hits, with the nice twist of a vintage homage to the graphics of the time. A segment in which Everything is fine guest turns into an animated, pop and colorful character like a hero first video games.
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The meaning of People from Cecchetto
Who are Cecchetto’s people? “I am the artists he helped discover and launch”, he explained Emanuele Imbucci, director who also took care of the screenplay and editing. «Those kids who are imprinted in our imaginationwith their music, their voices, the sound of their laughter and that of the audience.”
«That audience is us. That “people” which also falls within the meaning of the term “people”, to indicate an entire generation of listeners and spectatorswho loved and decreed the success of those talents proposed then by Cecchetto. Talents who are still among the top players in entertainment today of this country.” Yes, then there’s also the fact that if you say “Italian Eighties”, the refrain of comes out of your memory People from Ibiza.
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