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In poetry, a stanza is a unit within a larger poem. In modern poetry, the term is often equivalent with strophe; in popular vocal music, a stanza is typically referred to as a "verse" (distinct from the refrain, or "chorus").

A stanza consists of a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.

In traditional English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines (as in distich/couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain/quintain, sestet). In much modern poetry, stanzas may be arbitrarily presented on the printed page because of publishing conventions that employ such features as white space or punctuation.

Stanza names[link]

Stanzas can be given a specific name depending on their structure and rhyme pattern.

Other stanza names:

• Ballad stanza
• Burns stanza or British stanza
• Ottava rima
• Sicilian octave
• Spenserian stanza
• Balassi stanza
• Onegin stanza
• Terza rima

Examples[link]

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English (and in other Western European languages) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas (of nine) from a poem by Isaac Watts (from 1719) cited immediately below (in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708):

Our God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Our shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal home.

Beneath the shadow of Thy throne

Thy saints have dwelt secure;

Sufficient is Thine arm alone,

And our defense is sure.

Before the hills in order stood,

Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting Thou art God,

To endless years the same. [etc.]

Less obvious manifestations of stanzaic form can be found as well, as in Shakespeare's sonnets, which, while printed as whole units in themselves, can be broken into stanzas with the same rhyme scheme followed by a final couplet, as in the example of Sonnet 116:

    Let me not to the marriage of true minds             |\
    Admit impediments. Love is not love                  | \
    Which alters when it alteration finds,               | / All one stanza
    Or bends with the remover to remove:                 |/
    O no! it is an ever-fixed mark,                      |\ 
    That looks on tempests and is never shaken;          | \
    It is the star to every wandering bark,              | / All one stanza
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. |/
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks  |\
    Within his bending sickle's compass come;            | \
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,      | / All one stanza
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom.           |/
    If this be error and upon me proved,                 |\
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.                 |/  A couplet

References[link]

External links[link]

• 'Stanza' - JPiC Forum For Writers Glossary Term of the Day

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Franco Battiato
Background information
Birth name	Francesco Battiato
Born	(1945-03-23) 23 March 1945 (age 67)
Origin	Riposto, Sicily, Italy
Genres	Beat (1965/1970) experimental, new wave, musique concrète, progressive rock (1971–1979) synthrock (1980–1987) pop, new age, opera, classical (1988–1996) alternative rock, synthrock, pop/rock (1997–)
Occupations	Musician, filmmaker, painter
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1965–present
Labels	Ricordi EMI Sony Music
Associated acts	Alice, Juri Camisasca, Giuni Russo, Milva
Website	www.battiato.it

Francesco (Franco) Battiato (born 23 March 1945 in Riposto) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes. His collaborations from 1994 onward with the nihilistic-cynical philosopher Manlio Sgalambro have added lyrical references to Emil Cioran, Friedrich Nietzsche and other anarchistic thinkers.

Together with Alice, Franco Battiato represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the song "I treni di Tozeur".

Biography[link]

Early years and experimental period[link]

Franco Battiato was born in 1945 in Riposto (in the former municipality of Jonia, that included also Giarre) in the province of Catania, Sicily.

At the age of 20 he moved to Milan and in 1967 he obtained the first musical contract. His single La Torre was released and Battiato appeared on TV to perform the song. He scored some success with the romantic song È l'amore. After further covers of pop songs, he met the experimental musician Juri Camisasca in 1970 and collaborated with Osage Tribe, an Italian psychedelic-progressive rock band. As a solo artist, he released the science-fiction single La convenzione (The convention), one of the finest Italian progressive rock songs of the 1970s.

Starting from 1971, Battiato devoted much of his efforts to experimental electronic music, producing a series of LPs that remained almost unknown at the time, but are now eagerly sought by collectors worldwide. Starting out with electronic Progressive Rock with some emphasis on vocals, his music became increasingly experimental, gradually moving into the realms of musique concrète and minimalism: Foetus (1971, its cover was censored), Pollution (1972), Sulle Corde di Aries (1973), Clic (1974) and M.elle le “Gladiator” (1975). Clic is a haunting yet largely conventional exploration in the electronic style reminiscent of Philip Glass and even German experimental rock band Can.

In 1975, he moved to the Dischi Ricordi label, producing Battiato (1975), Juke Box (1976) and the experimental L'Egitto prima delle sabbie (Egypt Before the Sands, 1977), which won the Stockhausen award for contemporary music.

National success[link]

After the Ricordi label failed to re-sign him, Battiato signed with EMI. He abandoned the Prog Rock experiments of the previous years and moved to a more pop-oriented style which afforded him ever increasing popularity with Italian audiences. In this period his albums were usually in collaboration with the renowned musician and violinist Giusto Pio, whose two later albums were produced by Battiato.

After L'era del cinghiale bianco (The Era Of The White Boar, 1979) and Patriots (1980), Battiato obtained astounding success with La voce del padrone (His Master's Voice) in 1981, which was the first Italian LP to sell more than one million copies. The commercial success was confirmed by L'arca di Noè (Noah's Ark) in 1982. Songs like "L'era del cinghiale bianco", "Prospettiva Nevskij" ("Nevsky Perspective"), "Centro di gravità permanente" ("Permanent Gravity Centrepoint"), "Bandiera bianca" ("White Flag"), "Voglio vederti danzare" ("I Want To See You Dance") which were characterized by an original mix of middle-eastern melodies, lyrics which touched upon philosophical themes and electro-pop rhythms, established Battiato as one of the most popular musicians in Italy, with his strange mixture of Pop songs and intellectual attitude. Many of the songs of this era contained some lyrics in English and, most notably Arabic, a language that Battiato had started to study after a trip to Turkey. Battiato's albums were also released in Spanish and English versions.

Orizzonti perduti (Lost Horizons, 1983), which Battiato himself called a kipper, was followed by the successful Mondi Lontanissimi (Faraway Worlds, 1985), which featured a solo version of the popular "I treni di Tozeur" ("The Tozeur Trains)", originally a duet with Alice performed at the 1984 Eurovision Song Contest, the science-fiction/metaphysical "Via Lattea" ("Milky Way") and "No Time No Space".

1988's Fisiognomica (Physiognomy) sold more than 300,000 copies and it confirmed Battiato's success. The album, considered by Battiato himself his best work for the balance between music and lyrics, contained the hit "Nomadi" ("Nomads"), originally recorded by Alice and written by his old friend Juri Camisasca, who in the meantime had retired to a Benedictin monastery. The album also included the songs "E ti vengo a cercare", which was performed by director/actor Nanni Moretti in his 1989 movie Palombella Rossa, and "Veni l'autunnu" with lyrics entirely in the Sicilian and Arabic languages.

Come un cammello in una grondaia (Like a Camel In The Gutter, 1991), was divided into two parts, the second made up by classical German lieder. Among the pop songs, "Povera patria" ("Poor Homeland"), a poetical denouncement of Italy's lack of culture and honesty, became a kind of hymn of the civil society rebelling against the 1992 mafioso bomb attacks against judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Pio and Battiato also worked as composers, musical arrangers and producers for several singers, including Alice and Giuni Russo, and for two of Milva's albums.

Starting from 1987, Battiato also produced several classical operas: Genesi (1987), Gilgamesh (1992) and Il Cavaliere dell'Intelletto (1994). In 1990 he also began to experiment with painting, initially under the pseudonym of Süphan Barzani.

Collaboration with Manlio Sgalambro[link]

In 1994 Battiato began to collaborate with the Sicilian philosopher Manlio Sgalambro, who was to write almost all the lyrics of his following albums.

After the tentative L'ombrello e la macchina da cucire of 1995, in 1996 the duo published what is considered their best work so far, L'imboscata, containing the romantic hit "La cura" ("The care"), elected best Italian song of the year.

Gommalacca (1998, with an unusual stress on hard rock), Ferro battuto (2000) and Dieci stratagemmi (2004) continued on the same path, with variations mainly set by Battiato's unceasing desire for musical experimentation.

In 2003 Battiato released his first feature film, Perduto amor (Lost love), for which he also composed the soundtrack. The movie won the Silver Ribbon for the best debutant director. However, heavy criticism struck against his following movie, Musikanten, a rather experimental work about Beethoven's last four years of life. The German musician was played by the Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.

In 2004 he hosted a cultural show named Bitte, keine Reclame for a satellite channel of RAI, the Italian state network.

Battiato in concert during the Notte Bianca 2007 in Rome

Personal life[link]

Battiato is not married; he had been very attached to his mother Grazia, who died in 1994. He prefers spending time in a personal retreat in Milo, a little town near Mount Etna, rather than socializing with the so-called "cultural elite".

Trivia[link]

• In 1999 Battiato released a collection of covers of Italian love songs, Fleurs. He repeated the experiment three years later with an album inexplicably numbered Fleurs 3. The median album Fleurs 2 was released unexpectedly in November 2008.
• Battiato's cover of The Rolling Stones' "Ruby Tuesday", originally released on Fleurs, is prominently featured in the 2006 film, Children of Men.
• In his album Fleurs 2 (2009) Anthony Hegarty performs, in Italian, "Del suo veloce volo", Battiato's cover of Antony and the Johnsons' song "Frankestein".

Discography[link]

1970s[link]

• La Convenzione (single, 1971)
• Foetus (1971)
• Pollution (1972)
• Sulle corde di Aries (1973)
• Clic (1974)
• M.elle le “Gladiator” (1975)
• Feed Back (1975)
• Battiato (1976)
• Juke Box (1977)
• L'Egitto prima delle sabbie (1978)
• L'era del cinghiale bianco (1979)

1980s[link]

• Patriots (1980)
• La voce del Padrone (1981)
• L'arca di Noè (1982)
• Orizzonti perduti (1983)
• Mondi Lontanissimi (1985)
• Echoes of Sufi Dances (1985, in English)
• Ecos de Danzas Sufi (1985, in Spanish)
• Nomadas (1987, in Spanish)
• Fisiognomica (1988)
• Giubbe Rosse (1989, live)

1990s[link]

• Come un cammello in una grondaia (1991)
• Caffè de la Paix (1993)
• Unprotected (1994, live)
• L'ombrello e la macchina da cucire (1995)
• Battiato studio collection (1996, collection)
• L'imboscata (1996)
• Shadow, Light (1996, collection)
• Battiato Live Collection (1997, live)
• Gommalacca (1998)
• Fleurs (1999)

2000s[link]

• Campi magnetici (2000)
• Ferro battuto (2001)
• Fleurs 3 (2002)
• Last Summer Dance (2003, live)
• Dieci stratagemmi (2004)
• Il vuoto (2007)
• Fleurs 2 (2008) (3X Platinum)
• Inneres Auge – Il tutto è più della somma delle sue parti (2009) (Platinum)

Singles[link]

• 1965: L'amore è partito (Love's gone)
• 1965: E piu ti amo (The more I love you...)
• 1967: La torre / Le reazioni (The tower / The reaction)
• 1967: Triste come me / Il mondo va così (Sad like me / The world goes like this)
• 1968: È l'amore / Fumo di una sigaretta (It's love / Smoke of a cigarette)
• 1969: Sembrava una serata come tante / Gente (It seemed it was an ordinary evening / People)
• 1969: Bella ragazza / Occhi d'or (Beautiful girl / Golden eyes)
• 1970: Lacrime e pioggia (Rain and tears)
• 1971: Vento caldo / Marciapiede (Warm wind / Pavement) - recorded 1968
• 1972: Energia / Una cellula (Energy / A cell)
• 1972: La convenzione / Paranoia (The convention / Paranoia)
• 1978: Adieu/San Marco - Elektra Records, t 123 310
• 1979: L'era del cinghiale bianco / Luna indiana (The era of the white boar / Indian moon)
• 1981: Bandiera bianca / Summer on a Solitary Beach (White flag / ...)
• 1984: I treni di Tozeur / Le biciclette di Forlì (The trains of Tozeur / The bicycles of Forlì) - with Alice
• 1985: No Time No Space / Il re del mondo (... / The king of the world)
• 1985: Via lattea / L'animale (Milky Way / The animal)
• 1996: Strani Giorni/Decline and fall of the roman empire (Strange days / ...)
• 1996: La Cura (The care)
• 1998: Shock in my town
• 1998: Il ballo del potere (Power's dance)
• 2001: Running against the grain/Sarcofagia/In trance (... / ... / Into a trance)
• 2004: Tra Sesso e Castità/Le aquile non volano a stormi/Ermeneutica (Between sex and chastity / Eagles don't fly in flocks / Hermeneutics)
• 2007: Il vuoto (Vacuum)
• 2007: Aspettando l'estate (Waiting for summer)
• 2007: Niente è come sembra (Nothing is as it seems)
• 2008: Tutto l'universo obbedisce all'amore (The whole universe obeys the love)

Singles in Spanish[link]

• 1985: La estación de los amores (Love's season)
• 1991: Pobre Patria (Poor homeland)
• 1986: Yo quiero verte danzar (I want to see you dancing)

Operas[link]

• Genesi (1987)
• Gilgamesh (1992)
• Messa arcaica (1993)
• Il Cavaliere dell'Intelletto (1995) - not published on CD
• Campi magnetici (2000)
• Telesio (2011)

Filmography[link]

• Perduto amor (2003, also screenplay)
• Musikanten (2005)
• Niente è come sembra (2007)
• Auguri Don Gesualdo (2010)

Bibliography[link]

• Tecnica mista su tappeto, Conversazioni autobiografiche (1992)
• Evoluzione evoluzione evoluzione (1998)
• Parole e canzoni (2004)
• In fondo sono contento di aver fatto la mia conoscenza (2007)
• Musica e spiritualità (2008)
• Io chi sono? Dialoghi sulla musica e sullo spirito (2009)
• Sowa rigpa. La scienza della guarigione per un'alimentazione consapevole (2010)

External links[link]

• Official website
• Radio BattiatoHispano, the first radio dedicated to Battiato and to his vast collaborations
• www.battiatoweb.com BattiatoWeb, unofficial Spanish website
• Franco Battiato on Europopmusic.eu (English)
• Franco Battiato discography (Music City)
• Franco Battiato discography at Discogs

Ornella Muti
Ornella Muti at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Francesca Romana Rivelli (1955-03-09) 9 March 1955 (age 57) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film, television actress
Years active	1970–present
Spouse	Alessio Orano (m. 1975–1981) «start: (1975)–end+1: (1982)»"Marriage: Alessio Orano to Ornella Muti" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Ornella_Muti)(divorced) Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996) (separated) 2 children
Partner	Stefano Piccolo (1998-2008) Fabrice Kerhervé (2008-present)

Ornella Muti (born 9 March 1955) is an Italian actress.

Early life[link]

She was born in Rome as Francesca Romana Rivelli, to a Neapolitan father and Estonian mother. Her maternal grandparents immigrated from Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, to Estonia.^[1] She has an older sister, Claudia (born 1951).

Career[link]

Muti modeled as a teenager and made her film debut in 1970 in La moglie più bella (aka The Most Beautiful Wife).

She has primarily worked in Italian films but she made her British film debut as Princess Aura in Flash Gordon in 1980. American movies she appeared in include Oscar (1991) and Once Upon a Crime (1992). She is mostly known to the French for appearing in a TV commercial of Giovanni Panzani pasta.

Muti was voted "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" in 1994 by a worldwide poll of readers of the magazine Class.

In 2008, Ornella Muti introduced her own line of jewellery.^[2] She opened new shops in Paris, Milan, Rome, Riga, Moscow and Almaty.

She insured her breasts for $350,000.^[3]

Personal life[link]

Muti has been married twice, to Alessio Orano (her fellow actor in the film "The Most Beautiful Wife", 1975–1981), and Federico Facchinetti (1988–1996).

Muti has three children: Naike Rivelli (b. 1974), who is also a model and actress having a close resemblance to her mother, and whose father is Spanish film producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro Acaso; a son, Andrea, and a second daughter, Carolina, both from her marriage to Facchinetti.

From 1998 to 2008, Muti lived with Stefano Piccolo, a plastic surgeon.

Since 2008, her romantic partner is Fabrice Kerhervé.^[4][5]

Selected filmography[link]

• La moglie più bella (The Most Beautiful Wife, 1970)
• Il Sole nella pelle (1971, also known as Summer Affair, Sun on the Skin)
• Le Monache di Sant'Arcangelo (1973, also known as Sisters of Satan, The Nuns of Saint Archangel, The Nun and the Devil)
• Romanzo popolare (1974, also known as Come Home and Meet My Wife)
• The Sensual Man (1974)
• Appassionata (1974, also known as Passionate)
• Leonor (1975)
• Pure as a Lily (1976)
• La Dernière femme (1976, also known as The Last Woman, L'Ultima donna)
• La stanza del vescovo, (1977, also known as The Bishop’s Room)
• Mort d'un pourri (1977, also known as Death of a Corrupt Man, The Twisted Detective)
• I nuovi mostri (1977)
• Neapolitan Mystery (1978)
• La Vita è bella (Life is Beautiful, 1979)
• Flash Gordon (1980)
• Il Bisbetico Domato (1980)
• Innamorato pazzo (1981)
• Storie di ordinaria follia (Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1981)
• Love and Money (1982)
• La Ragazza di Trieste (The Girl from Trieste, 1983)
• Il futuro è donna (The Future Is Woman, 1984)
• Un amour de Swann (1984, also known as Eine Liebe von Swann, Swann in Love)
• Casanova (1987)
• Cronaca di una morte annunciata (Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1987)
• 'O Re (The King of Naples) (1989)
• Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
• Il Viaggio di Capitan Fracassa (1990, English titles: Captain Fracassa's Journey, The Voyage of Captain Fracassa)
• Oscar (1991)
• Once Upon a Crime (1992)
• El Amante Bilingüe (1993)
• Mi fai un favore (1996, US title: Stella's Favor)
• Compromesso d'amore (1995, Spanish title: Tatiana, la muñeca rusa, US title: Love Deal)
• Pour rire! (1996)
• Somewhere in the City (1998)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1998, miniseries)
• The Unscarred (1999), costarred with daughter Naike Rivelli
• Tierra del fuego (2000)
• Domani (2001, English title: Tomorrow)
• Il figlio prediletto (2001 Brazil, Portuguese title: Um Crime Nobre)
• Last Run (2002)
• Cavale (2002, also known as Trilogy: One, On the Run, One)
• Un couple épatant (2002, also known as Trilogy: Two, An Amazing Couple, Two)
• Après la vie (2002) (also known as Trilogy: Three, After the Life, Three)
• Hotel (2003)
• On the Run: Trilogy 1 (2004)
• An Amazing Couple: Trilogy 2 (2004)
• After the Life: Trilogy 3 (2004)
• The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
• Doc West (2009–present)
• To Rome with Love, directed by Woody Allen (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ornella Muti

• Ornella Muti Official Fan Club Website
• Ornella Muti at the Internet Movie Database
• Ornella Muti at AllRovi

Mike Patton
Background information
Birth name	Michael Allan Patton
Born	(1968-01-27) January 27, 1968 (age 44) Eureka, California, U.S.
Genres	Various
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, actor, producer
Instruments	Vocals, various electronic instrumentation/programming, sampler, drums, percussions, bass, guitar, keyboards
Years active	1985–present
Labels	Ipecac, Tzadik, Warner Bros. Records, Slash
Associated acts	Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Lovage, John Zorn, Kaada/Patton, Dillinger Escape Plan, Hemophiliac, Maldoror, General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners, Rahzel, Zu,

Michael Allan "Mike" Patton (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the experimental rock/alternative metal band Faith No More. He was also the founder and lead singer of Mr. Bungle, and has played with Tomahawk, Fantômas, Lovage, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Peeping Tom.

Known for his eclectic influences and experimental projects, Patton has earned critical praise for his diverse vocalization. He has many producer or co-producer credits with artists such as John Zorn, Sepultura, Melvins, Melt-Banana, and Kool Keith. He co-founded Ipecac Recordings with Greg Werckman in 1999, and has run the label since.

Biography[link]

Early years[link]

Patton was born and raised in Eureka, California, where he formed Mr. Bungle, with Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn, in 1984. During the late '80s Mr Bungle recorded the cassette-only recordings, The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny, Goddammit I Love America, Bowel of Chiley and OU818, featuring tracks that would later be included on their first Warner Brothers album.

Joining Faith No More[link]

Patton joined Faith No More in January 1989 replacing Chuck Mosley, who then played with Cement.

Faith No More's The Real Thing was released later that year. The album reached the top ten on the US charts, thanks largely to MTV's heavy rotation of the "Epic" music video, (which featured Patton in a Mr. Bungle T-shirt^[1]).

In the United States, Faith No More released three more studio albums; (Angel Dust, King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime, and Album of the Year) Faith No More officially disbanded in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

When interviewed about his lyrical content with Faith No More, Patton responded, "I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works more with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm, not because of the meaning".^[2]

Mr. Bungle and beyond[link]

During his time in Faith No More, Patton continued to work with Mr. Bungle. His success in mainstream rock and metal ultimately helped secure Mr. Bungle a record deal with Warner Bros.^[3] The band released a self-titled album (produced by John Zorn) in 1991, and the experimental Disco Volante^[4] in 1995. Their final album, California, was released in 1999.

Patton's other projects included two solo albums on the Composer Series of John Zorn's Tzadik label, (Adult Themes for Voice in 1996 and Pranzo Oltranzista in 1997). He is a member of Hemophiliac, in which he performs vocal effects along with John Zorn on saxophone and Ikue Mori on laptop electronics. This group is billed as "improvisational music from the outer reaches of madness".^{[citation needed]} He has also guested on Painkiller and Naked City recordings. He has also on other Tzadik releases with Zorn and others.

In 1998, Patton formed the avant-garde metal supergroup Fantômas with Buzz Osbourne (of The Melvins), Trevor Dunn (of Mr. Bungle), and Dave Lombardo of Slayer. They have released four studio albums. The band is still together as of July 2011.

There have been several projects over the years featuring Patton that have not been officially released, although some live bootlegs do circulate. These projects include House of Discipline (with Bob Ostertag and Otomo Yoshihide), Moonraker (with Agata Ichirou of Melt-Banana, Buckethead and DJ Eddie Def), Christian Fennesz and Mike Patton, and Patton & Rahzel. Patton contributed vocals to the Team Sleep song Kool-Aid Party, but the song did not make it onto the final album.^{[citation needed]}

Patton performing with Fantômas at Quart Festival, Norway on July 9, 2005.

In 2004, Patton worked with Björk and the beat boxer Rahzel on her album, Medúlla.^[5]

In 2005, Patton signed on to compose the soundtrack for the independent movie Pinion, marking his debut scoring an American feature-length film. However, this had been held up in production and may be on the shelf permanently.^[6] His other film work includes portraying two major characters in the Steve Balderson film Firecracker. He has also expressed his desire to compose for film director David Lynch.

In February 2006, Mike Patton performed an operatic piece, composed by Eyvind Kang, at Teatro di Modena in Italy. Patton sang alongside vocalist Jessika Kinney, and was accompanied by the Modern Brass Ensemble, Bologna Chamber Choir, and Alberto Capelli and Walter Zanetti on electric and acoustic guitars. Patton remarked that it was extremely challenging to project the voice without a microphone.^[7]

Patton's Peeping Tom album was released on May 30, 2006 on his own Ipecac label. The set was pieced together by swapping song files through the mail with collaborators like Norah Jones, Kool Keith and Massive Attack, Odd Nosdam, Jel, Doseone, Bebel Gilberto, Kid Koala, and Dub Trio.^{[citation needed]}

"I don't listen to the radio, but if I did, this is what I'd want it to sound like", Patton said of the project. "This is my version of pop music. In a way, this is an exercise for me: taking all these things I've learned over the years and putting them into a pop format."

—Mike Patton

In May 2007 he performed with an orchestra a few concerts in Italy, by the name of Mondo Cane, singing Italian oldies from the 50s and the 60s.

Mike also provided the voices of the monsters in the 2007 film I Am Legend starring Will Smith.

He is regarded as very hard-working. Faith No More keyboardist Roddy Bottum remarked about Patton "caffeine is the only drug he does", in reference to the Faith No More song "Caffeine" from the album Angel Dust, which Patton wrote while in the middle of a sleep-deprivation experiment.^{[citation needed]} He also worked on the Derrick Scocchera short film "A Perfect Place" for the score/soundtrack, which is longer than the film itself.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2008 along with Melvins, Patton co-curated an edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties Nightmare Before Christmas festival.^[8] Patton chose half of the lineup and performed the album The Director's Cut in its entirety with Fantômas. Patton also appeared as Rikki Kixx in the Adult Swim show Metalocalypse in a special 2 part episode on August 24.^[9]

In 2009 Patton created the soundtrack to the movie Crank: High Voltage. He also performed vocals on the track "Lost Weekend" by The Qemists.

On May 4, 2010 Mondo Cane, where Patton worked live with a 30-piece orchestra, was released by Ipecac Recordings. The album was co-produced and arranged by Daniele Luppi.^[10]

"Recorded at a series of European performances including an outdoor concert in a Northern Italian piazza, the CD features traditional Italian pop songs as well as a rendition of Ennio Morricone's 'Deep Down'."^[11]

Video games[link]

Patton is known to be an avid video game player.^[12] In 2007, he provided the voice of the eponymous force in the video game The Darkness,^[13] working alongside Kirk Acevedo, Lauren Ambrose and Dwight Schultz. Patton reprised the role in The Darkness II in 2012.^[14]

He also had a minor role in Valve Corporation's 2007 release Portal as the voice of the Anger Sphere in the final confrontation with the insane supercomputer, GLaDOS. He has another role in the Valve title Left 4 Dead, voicing the majority of the infected zombies.^[15] He also voiced Nathan "Rad" Spencer, the main character in Capcom's 2009 video game Bionic Commando, a sequel of their classic NES title.

Faith No More reunion[link]

In February 2009, Faith No More announced that they were reforming for a tour and possibly new material, first as a footnote on a blurb for Patton's score for Crank: High Voltage and later as an official announcement on fnm.com.^[16] Their first gig on the road again was at the Brixton O2 Academy in London, where 1990's Live at the Brixton Academy was recorded, on June 10, 2009. They have played as one of three headliners at The Download Festival 2009, in Castle Donington, which was Faith No More's first time at the festival. At the festival they played "Chinese Arithmetic" while Patton humorously sang the lyrics to "Poker Face" using a beat-box effect embellishing Gaga's vocal style. Bassist Billy Gould has also stated that an American tour is "not out of the question". In June 2009 Faith No More announced that they will be headlining the NME stage at Reading & Leeds festival.^[17] On July 4, Faith No More performed a concert together at the Open'er festival in Kosakowo Airport near Gdynia, Poland.

Faith No More also played the large Roskilde Festival near the city of Roskilde, Denmark.^[18] Faith No More also performed in Portugal in Optimus Alive'10, where Mike Patton sang one song, "Evidence", completely in Portuguese. They had already played the same song completely in Italian on June 14, 2009, at the Rock in Idro Festival in Milan. 12 August 2009 was the date for FNM's first Turkish live appreance in Istanbul. On August 14, Faith no more played at the Spirit of Burgas Festival in Burgas, Bulgaria. Faith No More headlined the Australian Soundwave Festival in 2010. On the 27th of August 2009, Faith No More played in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin, Ireland and were supported by local band Adebisi Shank.

On September 1, 2009 Faith No More played at Israel Trade Fairs & Convention Center in Tel Aviv, Israel, supported by Monotonix and Dinosaur Jr. August 2009 Faith No More headlined the Radio 1/NME Stage at both Leeds & Reading Festival where they played the theme tune to popular UK Soap Eastenders as part of their setlist. On December 5, 2010, they played alongside Primus in Santiago de Chile,^[19] which was the day after their performance at the Teleton Chile.^[20] In 2011 they also performed at the Chilean Rock Concert Maquinaria^[21] on November 12 and 13, as well as at the SWU Festival on November 15.^[22]

Faith No More were to top the bill on Sunday July 8th 2012 of the Sonisphere Festival UK festival at the iconic Knebworth House venue, but On March 29, the festival was cancelled. ^[23]

Reaction to fame[link]

Patton (left) performing with Bill Laswell (bass) in a Jazz band.

Patton has garnered critical praise and has been made a heavy metal icon; however, Patton's reaction to this fame has been unconventional. He has acted irreverently towards the music industry, and expressed his distaste for the infamous lifestyles of rock stars. In a 1995 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, he stated: "It's hard to see as much as you'd like to with our schedule on the road, but it's harder to do coke and fuck whores every night. Now that's a full time job."^[24] His attitude towards popular music is also evident in his songwriting, as Allmusic critic Cammila Albertson writes: "When Patton sings 'Roll it up and smoke it again/Bottoms up and drink it again/ Fix it up and shoot it again/ I can't believe I did it again,' (Mojo by Peeping Tom) he is keenly aware of the way it sounds for such an avant-garde composer as himself to recite perfect rock & roll cliches. His lyrics mock the self-important coolness of the music industry and self parody his own place in it."^[25] His contempt for the over-the-top antics of figures in popular music is often cited as the main reason that Patton has always been so guarded about his privacy and personal life.^[24] Mike Patton has stated that he enjoyed his time in Faith No More:

"They were good years. It was a decade of my life. It was lots of ups and lots of downs, but ultimately that's where I learned my chops and learned the craft and the business."

— Mike Patton, Artisan News Service

Personal life[link]

Patton married Italian artist Titi Zuccatosta in 1994. They separated in 2001. During an appearance on the radio show, Loveline (Listen), Patton said that it was a case of two people wanting different things and hinted that his excessive work habits may have been a factor. "It's very hard. It's a daily struggle", he commented in regards to the rigors of juggling a busy music career and a marriage. "It had to happen... Even though we knew each other really well when we got married, it doesn't get easier." He later added, "We're trying this. See what happens. There's still hope." Patton used to own a home in Bologna, Italy (which he sold around the time of the break-up), and speaks fluent Italian.^[26] He was interviewed by music journalist Lucas H. Gordon and the answers were given by Patton in Italian.^{[citation needed]}

Patton's right hand is permanently numb from an on-stage incident during his third concert with Faith No More, where he accidentally cut himself on a broken bottle and severed the tendons and nerves in his hand. He can use his hand, but he has no feeling in it (despite his doctor telling him the opposite would happen).^[27]

Style and influences[link]

Patton's vocals touch on crooning, falsetto, screaming, opera, death growls, rapping, mouth music, beatboxing, and scatting, among other techniques. Critic Greg Prato of Allmusic writes, "Patton could very well be one of the most versatile and talented singers in rock music";^[28] colleague Blake Butler called him "a complete and utter musical visionary and a mind-blowing and standard-warping genius."^[29]

Discography[link]

Selected filmography[link]

• 1990 - Live at the Brixton Academy, London: You Fat Bastards by Faith No More (VHS)
• 1993 - Video Macumba - Short film compiled by Mike Patton containing abstract and extreme footage
• 1998 - Who Cares a Lot: Greatest Videos by Faith No More (VHS)
• 2002 - A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn
• 2005 - Firecracker - Frank/David
• 2007 - Kaada/Patton Live - Live performance DVD
• 2007 - I Am Legend - Creature Vocals (voice) (credited as Michael A. Patton)[2]
• 2008 - A Perfect Place - Short film soundtrack by Patton (Released with film as CD/DVD special edition)
• 2008 - Live From London 2006 - Live DVD release of a performance by the Fantomas Melvins Big Band in London on May 1, 2006
• 2008 - Metalocalypse - Patton voices the character of reformed rocker Rikki Kixx on episodes "Snakes N Barrels II" part one and part two. This special 2 part, half hour presentation aired on The Cartoon Network August 24, 2008.
• 2009 - Crank: High Voltage - Film Score
• 2010 - Bunraku - Narrator

Video games[link]

• 2007 - The Darkness - Voice of The Darkness (Starbreeze Studios)
• 2007 - Portal - Voice of the Anger Sphere (Valve Software)
• 2008 - Left 4 Dead - Infected voices (Valve Software)
• 2009 - Bionic Commando - Voice of Nathan Spencer - the Bionic Commando (Capcom)
• 2009 - Left 4 Dead 2 - Infected voices (Valve Software)
• 2012 - The Darkness 2 - Voice of The Darkness (Digital Extremes)

References[link]

• Zorn, John, ed. (2000). Arcana: Musicians on Music. New York: Granary Books/Hips Road. ISBN 1-887123-27-X.

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mike Patton

• Ipecac Recordings
• Mike Patton on Myspace
• Peeping Tom on Myspace
• Mike Patton at the Internet Movie Database

Gino Paoli
Gino Paoli
Background information
Birth name	Gino Paoli
Born	(1934-09-23)23 September 1934 Monfalcone, Italy
Genres	Pop
Occupations	singer-songwriter, artist
Instruments	vocals
Years active	1959–present
Labels	RCA Italiana, Durium (Italy), Dischi Ricordi, Fonit Cetra
Associated acts	Ornella Vanoni
Website	ginopaoli.it

Gino Paoli (born 23 September 1934 in Monfalcone) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He wrote four masterpieces of Italian popular music: "Il cielo in una stanza", "Che cosa c'è", "Senza fine" and "Sapore di sale".

Biography[link]

Paoli was born in Monfalcone, a little town near Trieste, but moved very early to Genoa.

After several different jobs, he was called by Ricordi with his friends Luigi Tenco and Bruno Lauzi. His first success was the single "La gatta," which has been used in world language Italian task disks in America for middle schools and high schools.

Another early song was "Il cielo in una stanza" composed in 1959. According to Paoli, the lyrics had come to him while lying on the bed of a brothel. Looking at the purple ceiling, he thought, "Love can grow at any moment at any place".^[1] Mina's single release of the song topped the list of annual sales in Italy^[2] and reached Billboard Hot 100. Video performances of the song were included in the movies "Io bacio... tu baci" and "Appuntamento a Ischia". Later it was featured in the "Goodfellas" movie. Carla Bruni Sarkozy covered the song (mixing French with her native Italian) in her debut album ("Quelqu'un m'a dit").

Gino Paoli’s debut album – Gino Paoli was released in Italy on October 8, 1961 on Dischi Ricordi.^[3]

"Il cielo in una stanza" success was followed by "Sapore di sale" (1963), arranged by Ennio Morricone and believed to be his most famous song. In the same year he attempted suicide by shooting himself in the heart (the bullet is still inside his chest).

In 1974 he returned with the LP I semafori rossi non sono Dio, followed by Il mio mestiere (1977). Both showed a more mature inspiration than his 1960s works. In the 1980s Paoli produced a series of successful albums, and in 1985 he toured Italy together with Ornella Vanoni.

In 1987 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Communist Party. He abandoned politics in 1992 to pursue his music ambitions.

Autograph of Gino Paoli on the muretto of Alassio

He had a long relationship with actress Stefania Sandrelli. Their daughter, Amanda Sandrelli, is also an actress.

Discography[link]

• Gino Paoli (1961)
• Le cose dell'amore (1962)
• Basta chiudere gli occhi (1964)
• Gino Paoli allo Studio A (1965)
• Le canzoni per "Emmeti" (1966)
• Gino Paoli and The Casuals (1967)
• Le due facce dell'amore (1971)
• Rileggendo vecchie lettere d'amore (1971)
• Amare per vivere (1972)
• I semafori rossi non sono Dio (1974)
• Ciao, salutime un po' Zena (1975)
• Le canzoni di Gino Paoli' (1976, collection)
• Il mio mestiere (1977)
• La ragazza senza nome (1978)
• Il gioco della vita (1979)
• Ha tutte le carte in regola (1980)
• Averti addosso (1984)
• La luna e il Sig. Hyde (1984)
• Insieme (1985)
• Cosa farò da grande (1986)
• Sempre (1988)
• L'ufficio delle cose perdute (1988)
• Gino Paoli '89 dal vivo (1990, live)
• Matto come un gatto (1991)
• Senza contorno solo... per un'ora (1992)
• King Kong (1994)
• Amori dispari (1995)
• Appropriazione indebita (1996)
• Pomodori (1998)
• Per una storia (2000)
• Se (2002)
• Una lunga storia (2004)
• Ti ricordi? No non mi ricordo (2004)
• Gino Paoli & Arsen Dedic u Lisinskom (2005)

References[link]

Sources[link]

• Gino Paoli's official website

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gino Paoli

• A presentation of a work about Paoli's life