Gigi Proietti
Luigi "Gigi" Proietti (born 2 November 1940) is an Italian actor, director, dubber, and singer.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Rome to Romano Proietti, a man from Umbria, and Giovanna Ceci, a housewife. During his youth he was keen on singing and on playing guitar, piano, accordion and double bass in several Roman night clubs. He enrolled in the Faculty of Law at the La Sapienza University, where he started to attend the mimicry courses of the University Theater Center held by Giancarlo Cobelli, who immediately noticed his qualities as a musician and booked him for an avantgarde play.
Acting career
After several stage works, in 1966 Proietti debuted both in cinema, in Pleasant Nights, and on television, in the TV-series I grandi camaleonti. His first personal success came in 1971, when he replaced Domenico Modugno in the stage musical Alleluja brava gente by Garinei & Giovannini, starring alongside Renato Rascel.
After playing in 1974 the role of Neri Chiaramantesi in the drama La cena delle beffe, alongside Carmelo Bene and Vittorio Gassman, in 1976 started a fruitful collaboration with playwright Roberto Lerici, with whom he wrote and directed his stage plays, starting from the one-man show A me gli occhi, please (Give me your eyes, please, 1976, reported on the scene in 1993, 1996 and 2000, in a memorable performance at the Olympic Stadium in his hometown). The show achieves a sensational success; initially planned to be rapresented 6 times, it exceeded 300 replicas, with an average of 2,000 spectators for every rapresentation.
Podcasts:
Gigi Proietti
ALBUMS
- Cantautori italiani released: 1995
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by Burning Heads
Gigi Pirate
by: Burning HeadsHush my baby, baby dry your tears,
The murder is done
There'll be no more victims
No more gas bottles full of nails,
We've put the criminals in jail
No need to cry, No need to fall down,
Stop living in fear, We've got the solution
Call gigi pirate, He's gonna find the problem ,
He's gonna solve the problem
Live your life in deep security,
Our cameras will keep an eye on you,
Intervention troops are ready to go,
And if it's not enough there'll be a curfew.
No need to cry, No need to fall down,
Stop living in fear, We've got the solution
Call gigi pirate, He's gonna find the problem ,
He's gonna solve the problem
I need you to suspect everyone around
And call him if you find something wrong
We'll clean it up, clean it up, in town
And our foreign neighbors will be proud of what we've done,
Proud of what we've done and if it's not enough
Call gigi pirate,
He's gonna find the problem ,