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Franco De Vita
Background information
Born (1954-01-23) January 23, 1954 (age 58)
Origin Caracas, Venezuela
Genres Latin pop
Years active 1982–present
Associated acts Wisin & Yandel
Website Official Website

Franco De Vita (born January 23, 1954 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a singer-songwriter. His first disc as a solo artist garnered three Spanish-language hits in Venezuela. He signed with the Sony label in 1988, and in 1990, his album Extranjero had a song that reached No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award. His 2004 album Stop reached the Top 10 throughout Latin America and on the U.S. Latin charts.

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Career [link]

1980s [link]

One of four children born in Venezuela to Italian immigrants, De Vita’s family returned to Italy when he was 3. The family moved back to Venezuela when De Vita was 13. Due to his upbringing in Italy, De Vita learned Italian as his first language and did not learn Spanish until he returned to Venezuela at age 13. He later studied piano at the university level. In 1982, De Vita formed the group Icaro, which released one self-titled album in his homeland. Two years later, he released his first disc as a solo artist, simply titled Franco De Vita. The album spun off three Spanish-language hits: "Somos Tres", "No Hay Cielo", and "Un Buen Perdedor". His 1986 album Fantasía produced several more hits, including the title song and "Aquí Estás Otra Vez". "Sólo Importas Tú", taken from the album, was used as the theme song to the Spanish-language soap opera La Dama De Rosa. He appeared in the end credits of every episode, performing the song at the piano.

Seeking wider international exposure, De Vita moved to the Sony label for the 1988 album Al Norte Del Sur.[1] The album showed his socially-conscious, adult-oriented pop, particularly through the tunes "Te Amo" and "Louis". The latter song, about a daydreaming cabbie who idolizes The Beatles, was promoted with a music video considered quite advanced for its time. De Vita's 1990 album Extranjero featured the song "No Basta", which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. Latin charts and won an MTV Video Music Award.

1990s [link]

Most albums have included the live release En Vivo Marzo 16 (1992); Voces a mi Alrededor in 1993; the acoustic-flavored Fuera de Este Mundo (1996); and 1999's world-beat inspired Nada Es Igual. He left Sony for the 2002 album Segundas partes también son buenas, but returned to the label the following year.

2000s [link]

His 2004 album Stop reached the Top 10 throughout Latin America and on the U.S. Latin charts, spurred by the hits “Tú De Qué Vas” and “Si La Ves,” the latter a collaboration with pop group Sin Bandera. That same year, he toured arenas in the United States on a co-headlining tour with Ricardo Montaner, a fellow Venezuelan songwriter. He also has recorded in Italian and Portuguese. As a songwriter, he has written songs for Ricky Martin and Chayanne.

In 2005, an expanded edition of Stop was released, titled Stop + Algo Más, that included remixes and live recordings, as well as No Sé Lo Que Me Das, De Vita's first recording in English. The following year saw the release of Mil y Una Historias En Vivo, a two-disc live album that also featured four studio tracks, including collaborations with Alejandro Fernández and Diego El Cigala. A DVD version was released simultaneously.

In 2007, De Vita collaborated on a single with reggaeton duo Wisin & Yandel called "Oye Donde Esta El Amor", which borrowed the chorus from his composition "Donde Esta El Amor." They released an updated version of "Un Buen Perdedor" that peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs chart. In 2008, he re-recorded "Que No Muera La Esperanza" (originally featured on Voces A Mi Alrededor) with Wisin & Yandel, as well as releasing a new studio album, Simplemente La Verdad.

Spanish-language album discography [link]

(excludes compilations)

Album discography (non-Spanish) [link]

  • 1993 Straniero (Italian)
  • 1993 Isto é America (Portuguese)

References [link]

  1. ^ Birchmeier, Jason. "Biography: Franco De Vita". AMG. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p29075. Retrieved 9 May 2010. 

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American Ballet Theatre

American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City. It has an annual eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H. Koch Theater in the fall; the company tours around the world the rest of the year. ABT was founded in 1937 by Lucia Chase and Mikhail Mordkin and is recognized as one of the world's leading classical ballet companies. ABT is also the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School, and was recognized as "America's National Ballet Company" in 2006 by the United States Congress.

History

Mikhail Mordkin, a former dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, left Russia after the October Revolution and settled in the United States in 1924. He staged the country's first production of Swan Lake in 1924, then later formed the "Mordkin Ballet" in 1937 with students from his New York school, with Lucia Chase, his student, as one of his prima ballerinas. By 1939, former Hollywood agent, Richard Pleasant, came to New York to manage the company. By the summer of 1939, Pleasant and Chase developed big ideas to turn the company into a full-fledged ballet company, and to base it on "a gallery of dance rather than the vision of a single choreographer" and a "living museum of dance" with Russian, American and British "wings", and units for black and Hispanic dances. The pair renamed the company "Ballet Theatre" and Mordkin later departed, finding himself solely in the background.

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De vita libri tres

The De vita libri tres or Three Books on Life was written in the years 1480–1489 by Italian Platonist Marsilio Ficino. It was first circulated in manuscript form and then published on December 3, 1489. It was constantly in print through the middle of the seventeenth century.

De vita is a curious amalgam of philosophy, medicine, "natural magic" and astrology, and is possibly the first book ever written about the health of the intellectual and its peculiar concerns. Alongside passages explaining the immortality and divine source and nature of the soul, there are astrological charts and remedies, speeches from various Greek gods arguing with one another, philosophical digressions, medieval prescriptions for various ills, attempts at reconciling the Neoplatonism of Plotinus with Christian scripture, and magical remedies and talismans.

Ficino was one of the major philosophical voices of the Italian Renaissance, but he was also a physician, and the son of a physician. De vita is an example of the medical thinking of the early Renaissance, steeped in Galen and Hippocrates and the theory of the four humors and their attendant Aristotelian qualities (e.g., hot, cold, moist,dry), but also beginning to align this viewpoint with the awakening sense of the archetypal significance of the pagan gods, derived from the first exposure in the West for many centuries to the dialogues of Plato and to the Hermetica. (Ficino was the first translator of Plato into Latin.)

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Podcasts:

Franco de Vita

ALBUMS

Franco de Vita en Primera Fila (Live)

Released 2011

Mis favoritas

Released 2010

Serie Cinco Estrellas: Franco de Vita

Released 2008

Simplemente la verdad

Released 2008

Serie Top 10: Franco de Vita

Released 2004

Segundas partes también son buenas

Released 2002

Sus mejores éxitos

Released 2000

Nada es igual

Released 1999

Grandes éxitos Vol. 2

Released 1996

Fuera de este mundo

Released 1996

Grandes éxitos Vol. 1

Released 1995

Voces a mi alrededor

Released 1993

En vivo, marzo 16

Released 1992

Extranjero

Released 1990

Al norte del sur

Released 1988

Fantasía

Released 1986

Franco de Vita

Released 1984

Diez Años 1

Stop + Algo más

Mil y una historias de amor

Colección suprema

Mano a mano

Grandes Exitos

Mis 30 mejores canciones

Éxitos serie 32 II

14 Super Exitos

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Preso De Mi Propio Sentimiento

by: Franco de Vita

Quien me ha visto y quien me ve
Con mi sombra en la pared
Y cuando salga el sol, aqui me encontrara
Sin manera de decirte como
Sin manera de decirte cuanto
Y aqui preso de mi propio sentimiento
No consigo la salida
Y mucho menos las palabras
Pero eres todo lo que quiero, eso lo se
Aqui mirando como pasa el tiempo
Aqui esperando que te traiga el viento
Y aqui preso de mi propio sentimiento
Y guardo dentro de mi tantas cosas que al final
Nunca te pude decir
Intento sobrevivir
A esa sensacion que pruebo
Cada vez que yo te veo
Soy preso de mi propio sentimiento
Y me das paz y me das guerra
Me despegas de la tierra
Y me llevas donde nadie me llevo jamas
Y la verdad que no me siento solo
Porque tu habitas en mi pensamiento
Y aqui preso de mi propio sentimiento
Y guardo dentro de mi tantas cosas que al final
Nunca te pude decir
Intento sobrevivir
A esa sensacion que pruebo
Cada vez que yo te veo
Y corro detras de ti
Con la magia en que me dejas
Cada vez que te me alejas




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