With a passion for music that has accompanied him all his life, Enrico Ruggeri has achieved resounding success by performing numerous times on the Sanremo stage and holding international tours. Let’s find out the story of his career in the world of music.
Who is Enrico Ruggeri
Enrico Ruggeri (Milan, June 5, 1957) is an Italian singer-songwriter and conductor. From an early age he became passionate about the world of music starting to always carry the guitar with him during the years of student protests at the Liceo Berchet. He then founds the Josafat group together with some friends, including Silvio Capeccia, who transforms the group into Molotov Champagne.
In 1977 they join the Trifoglio giving birth to the Decibel, the band with which he recorded his first album.
Their success also leads them to participate in the Sanremo Festival in 1980 with the song “Contessa”. The promotion of the single and the album follows the modalities of the time and so the band is at the Festivalbar and in events such as Cantagiro and Un disco per summer ending the tour in the San Siro Stadium.
The time came for Enrico in 1981 to undertake one solo career and so he recorded his first album, “Champagne Molotov”, without however obtaining great success also due to legal vicissitudes.
However, he manages to get a fair amount of fame thanks to his second place at the Festivalbar and thanks to the collaboration with Loredana Bertè.
The musical career of Enrico Ruggeri
In 1984 he returned to the Ariston stage with “Nuovo swing” which proved to be a great success. One opens season of incredible achievements which lead him to timidly enter the list of the greatest Italian songwriters. Two years after the last Festival he returns with “Rien ne va plus” with which he obtains the critics’ prize and in 1987 he wins the competition with “You can give more” proposed together with Umberto Tozzi and Gianni Morandi.
As a demonstration of the numerous sounds that can be approached, slowly approaches rock also reaching the peak of his career which also leads him to a tour in the Soviet Union and a double platinum record. In 1991 he recorded the album “Peter Pan” which turns out to be his most successful album doubling the previous success. Two years later he participates again in the Sanremo Festival winning with the song “Mystery”.
Enrico Ruggeri’s projects in the new millennium
He continued the following years with a series of committed texts as “Spring of Sarajevo” presented at the Sanremo Festival and subsequently “Hands off Caino”. In the following years he returns to record a album with the Decibels also dedicating himself to some cover of successful artists seventies like David Bowie, the Sex Pistols and Lou Reed.
He has been involved in numerous projects in recent years, including the reunion with Molotov Champagne in 2011. Two years later he released a concept album entitled “Frankenstein” inspired by the well-known novel by Mary Shelley. Not least the role of conductor which has been going on since the nineties and which sees an increase with the arrival of the new decade with “Lucignolo” and “Mistero”.