Antonello Venditti was born in Rome, the son of a police commissary.
He studied piano in his youth and made his debut in the music world in the early 1970s at the Folkstudio of Rome, together with singers the like of Francesco De Gregori and Giorgio Lo Cascio. In duo with the former he released in 1972 his first LP, Theorius Campus. The LP scored little success, but Venditti at least made himself being noted for the strength of his vocal qualities and for his attention for social issues, evidenced by pieces like "Sora Rosa" which is sung in Roman dialect. Also in dialect was "Roma Capoccia", a declaration of love for his city, that later became one of his most famous songs. Curiously, Venditti refused to sing it for several years, as he considered it not politically or socially "engaged" enough.
Venditti subsequently moved to Milan and released L'orso bruno (1973), made in collaboration with musician Vince Tempera: this album included another song in dialect, "E Li Ponti So’ Soli", but for the rest was marked by an even stronger attention to social themes. His next work, Le cose della vita ("Things of Our Life"), released the same year for the colossus RCA Music, confirmed this tendency. The following LP Quando verrà Natale ("When Christmas Will Come") was similar; its even more naked arrangements emphasize the strength of Venditti's denunciation. After a live performance of the song "A Cristo" ("Hey, Christ"), he was denounced by an Italian Police officer for blasphemy: Venditti, however, was later totally acquitted.
Venditti's fortunes grew and peaked in 1975, with the LP Lilly: the yearning title-track was another strong accusation, this time against drugs, but it met an outstanding success anyway. Other famous pieces in the album were "Compagno di scuola" ("Schoolmate") and the long ballad "Lo Stambecco Ferito" ("The Wounded Steinbeck"), the story of a corrupted Northern Italy tycoon. Venditti continued to deal with front-page facts with the following LP, Ullalà (1976), whose "Canzone per Seveso" was about the eponymous industrial accident that happened in July of that year.
Political involvement, however, had side-effects on Venditti's inspiration in the late 1970s, marked in Italy by the growing menace of terrorism and by the strategia della tensione: some events (like the public booing of his friend De Gregori by politicized fans during a show) forced him to rethink his way of being a public personality. Sotto il segno dei Pesci ("(Born) Under the Pisces astrological sign", 1978) contained more personal and intimate themes. The eponymous track scored a great success, but was largely misinterpreted as a song about a woman: it instead referred to Venditti's career itself; he was effectively born "under the Pisces sign".
Success was however marred by his divorce to his wife Simona Izzo. She won custody of Venditti's son, Francesco Saverio. The following LP, Buona Domenica (1979), was highly marked by this difficult period. It contained anyway several classics, like the title-track and the ballad "Modena", which featured Gato Barbieri saxophone and is considered one of his finest works.
In 1982 the bitter Sotto la pioggia marked Venditti's passage to his own label, Heinz Music, and the beginning of the long-lasting collaboration with producer Alessandro Colombini. The following year A.S. Roma, his city's football team, won its long-awaited second scudetto: Venditti was therefore called in the official celebration show, and the song that he composed for the occasion, "Grazie Roma" ("Thank You Roma"), turned into a great success, surprisingly not confined to Rome's boundaries. Venditti had already composed several songs about his favourite soccer team: some criticized them harshly, mostly because of the strong contrast with the political-social themes of his other songs.
In following years, and notably in the 1990s, Venditti inspiration seemed to become more mainstream and commercial. His LPs (Cuore, In questo mondo di ladri, Benvenuti in Paradiso, Prendilo tu questo frutto amaro) were very successful, but his former themes were absent, or generally less stressed. Pieces like "Notte prima degli esami" or "Ma che bella giornata di sole" (about the Italian Liberation Day of September 1943) were anyway praised by critics. Among the songs of this period, "Dolce Enrico" was dedicated to the former leader of Partito Comunista Italiano, Enrico Berlinguer, dead in 1984.
Antonello nel Paese delle Meraviglie ("Antonello in Wonderland") of 1997 featured his greatest hits accompanied by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra of Sofia, directed by Renato Serio. Goodbye Novecento (1999) gave increasing attention to social and historical themes, but had a sub par success for Venditti's standards. In 2001 A.S. Roma won again a scudetto, and Venditti played again in a free concert in the Circo Massimo for an immense audience of tifosi and lovers of his songs. His latest studio release is Che fantastica storia è la vita ("What a Fantastic Story Is Life", October 2003). Gato Barbieri played with Venditti in this release. After resolved the difficulties in his friendship with Venditti, told in the latter's 1979 song "Scusa Francesco", "Sorry Francesco", De Gregori is also present as singer in "Io e mio fratello" ("Me and My Brother"). The album also contains a satire of Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi ("Il Sosia").
Venditti released the soundtrack for the 1985 movie Troppo forte by his friend, the Roman director Carlo Verdone. Verdone also played occasionally drums in Venditti's concertos.
Discography
* Bomba o non Bomba
* Theorius Campus (1972), with Francesco De Gregori under the collective byname of Theorius Campus)
* L'orso bruno (1973)
* Le cose della vita (1973)
* Quando verrà Natale (1974)
* Lilly (1975)
* Ullalà (1976)
* Sotto il segno dei pesci (1978)
* Buona domenica (1979)
* Sotto la pioggia (1982)
* Circo Massimo (1983, live)
* Cuore (1984)
* Centocittà (1985, live)
* Venditti e Segreti (1986)
* In questo mondo di ladri (1988)
* Gli anni ’80 (1990, collection)
* Benvenuti in Paradiso (1991)
* Da Sansiro a Samarcanda – L’amore insegna agli uomini (1992, live)
* Prendilo tu questo frutto amaro (1995)
* Antonello nel Paese delle Meraviglie (1997, live)
* Goodbye Novecento (1999)
* Se l'amore è amore... (2000, collection)
* Circo Massimo 2001 (2001, live)
* Il coraggio e l’amore (2002, collection)
* Che fantastica storia è la vita (2003)
* Campus Live (2005, live)
Ogni Volta
Antonello Venditti Lyrics
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Tu fai parte o non parte di me
Ogni volta che piango per te
Faccio parte o non parte di noi
Ma mille nuovi amori cercherò
Per non amarti più
Ma mai nessuna al mondo sarai tu
Ma ogni cosa ti parla di noi
Ogni frase, ogni gesto che fai
È già stato vissuto da noi
Chiudi gli occhi e pensi che
Le tue mane, la sua pelle no, non sono me
Ogni volta che parli di me
Faccio parte o non parte di te
Ogni volta che piangi per me
Faccio parte o non parte di noi
A tutti i nostri amici
Tu dirai di non amarmi più
Ma solo io saprò a chi pensi tu
Voglio te voglio te, voglio te
Perchè tu, tu fai parte di me
Voglio te, voglio te, voglio te
Fino all'ultimo sguardo
All'ultimo istante all'utimo giono che avrò
The lyrics to Antonello Venditti's "Ogni Volta" are a reflection on the enduring power of love and the struggle to move on from a past relationship. The singer talks about how, even though he tries to forget his former lover, she is always a part of who he is. He acknowledges that he will try to find new loves, but none of them will be able to replace her. The singer has heard that his former love is spending the night with someone else, but he knows that she still thinks of him. He tells her that he wants her back, that she is a part of him and that he will love her until his very last breath.
The song expresses a deep-seated sadness and longing for lost love, but at the same time it is a celebration of the power of love, which endures even when the relationship is over. The singer is aware that he can never truly move on from his former love, despite his attempts to do so, because of how deeply she is ingrained in his identity.
Antonello Venditti's "Ogni Volta" is a powerful song that speaks to the universal experiences of love and loss. Its poignant lyrics and haunting melody have made it a favorite of Italian music fans for generations.
Line by Line Meaning
Ogni volta che parlo di te
Every time I talk about you
Tu fai parte o non parte di me
You are either a part of me or not
Ogni volta che piango per te
Every time I cry for you
Faccio parte o non parte di noi
I am either a part of us or not
Ma mille nuovi amori cercherò
But I will search for a thousand new loves
Per non amarti più
To not love you anymore
Ma mai nessuna al mondo sarai tu
But no one in the world will be you
E stanotte la passi con lui
And tonight you spend it with him
Ma ogni cosa ti parla di noi
But everything speaks to you of us
Ogni frase, ogni gesto che fai
Every sentence, every gesture you make
È già stato vissuto da noi
Has already been lived by us
Chiudi gli occhi e pensi che
Close your eyes and think that
Le tue mane, la sua pelle no, non sono me
Your hands, his skin, no, they are not me
Ogni volta che parli di me
Every time you talk about me
Faccio parte o non parte di te
I am either a part of you or not
Ogni volta che piangi per me
Every time you cry for me
Faccio parte o non parte di noi
I am either a part of us or not
A tutti i nostri amici
To all of our friends
Tu dirai di non amarmi più
You will say you don't love me anymore
Ma solo io saprò a chi pensi tu
But only I will know who you're thinking of
Voglio te voglio te, voglio te
I want you, I want you, I want you
Perchè tu, tu fai parte di me
Because you, you are a part of me
Voglio te, voglio te, voglio te
I want you, I want you, I want you
Fino all'ultimo sguardo
Until the last glance
All'ultimo istante all'utimo giono che avrò
At the last moment, the last day I will have
Lyrics © Downtown Music Publishing
Written by: Antonello Venditti
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Pino Fiorillo
Ogni volta che parlo di te
Tu fai parte o non parte di me
Ogni volta che piango per te
Faccio parte o non parte di noi
Ma mille nuovi amori cercherò
Per non amarti più
Ma mai nessuna al mondo sarai tu
E stanotte la passi con lui
Ma ogni cosa ti parla di noi
Ogni frase, ogni gesto che fai
È già stato vissuto da noi
Chiudi gli occhi e pensi che
Le tue mane, la sua pelle no, non sono me
Ogni volta che parli di me
Faccio parte o non parte di te
Ogni volta che piangi per me
Faccio parte o non parte di noi
A tutti I nostri amici
Tu dirai di non amarmi più
Ma solo io saprò a chi pensi tu
Voglio te voglio te, voglio te
Perchè tu, tu fai parte di me
Voglio te, voglio te, voglio te
Fino all'ultimo sguardo
All'ultimo istante all'utimo giono che avrò
lisa de rossi
Non esistono tanti amori...ne esiste solo uno nella vita di ognuno di noi...quello che senti anche a distanza,quello che sfida il tempo...quello che ti emoziona sempre💓😢
Piera Gargioni
Anni. Per sbagliare. Ancora!!!!!!!!!! Mi piace rischiare !!!!!
Piera Gargioni
Bel commento Lisa. Vorrei avere di nuovo 20
Maria Pia Croveri
Verissimo
Maria Pia Croveri
9,30
micky ferro
è sicuramente uno dei commenti più belli e significativi di tutti questi pensieri..complimenti davvero
Roberta Casucci
Antonello resta e resterà un poeta che sa arrivare dritto al cuore. Descrive semplicemente le emozioni di ognuno di noi.❤️
Giuseppe Prenna
Roberta Casucci....ma per piaceeere un Ruffianaccio di tal fatta non poteva che scrivere una canzone altrettanto Ruffiana. Se poi e' vero che l'ha dedicata alla Leofreddi...beh..gli faceva già le corna. IL grido...di Un Povero Cornuto.. in sintesi.
Alessia Gullotta
Il primo amore.. quello dei 20 anni.. quello che ti travolge come una tempesta, che ti fa sentire invincibile e poi ti spezza il cuore! La vita andrà avanti, un altro amore arriverà, ma quel sentimento così grande e quel dolore non li dimenticherai mai, come i tuoi vent’anni!
suelen boldrighini
Beata a te che esiste il cuore, per me non esiste piú