Mario Lavezzi

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| name = Mario Lavezzi

| image = Sanremo Music Festival 2018 - Mario Lavezzi.png

| caption = Lavezzi at the Sanremo Music Festival 2018

| birth_name = Bruno Mario Lavezzi

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1948|5|8}}

| birth_place = Milan, Italy

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| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|composer|record producer}}

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Bruno Mario Lavezzi (born 8 May 1948) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, record producer and guitarist.

Life and career

Born in Milan, he studied piano and guitar at the Scuola Civica di Milano.{{cite news|last1=Franco Mondini|title=Mario Lavezzi quel cantante che sente le Voci |issue= 247|newspaper=La Stampa|date=5 November 1991 |page=23}} He started his career in 1963, as the singer and guitarist for the band The Trappers.{{cite news|last1=Franco Mondini|title="Passionalità", Lavezzi con i versi di Costanzo|issue= 247|newspaper=La Stampa|date=5 November 1991 |page=23}}{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|year=2009 |publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=978-8863462296}} In 1966, following the dissolution of the band, he replaced Riki Maiocchi in the I Camaleonti until 1968, when he had to leave the band after being drafted into the Italian army. In 1969 he debuted as a composer with the Dik Dik hit "Il primo giorno di primavera". In 1970 he co-founded the pop-rock group Flora Fauna e Cemento, then in 1974 he was part of the progressive rock musical project Il Volo. In the second half of the 1970s Lavezzi started a solo career as singer-songwriter;{{Cite web |last=Coppola |first=Alessio |date=2022-05-12 |title=Mario Lavezzi, la biografia del celebre compositore e cantautore |url=https://www.true-news.it/facts/mario-lavezzi-chi-e-il-compositore-e-cantautore-canzoni-loredana-berte-moglie-vita-privata |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=True News. |language=it-IT}} he also started collaborating as a composer and a record producer for several albums of Loredana Bertè. He later wrote songs for many notable artists, including Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Anna Oxa, Spagna, Marcella Bella, Ornella Vanoni, Fiorella Mannoia,{{cite news|last1=m.v.|title="Passionalità", Lavezzi con i versi di Costanzo|issue=112|newspaper=La Stampa|date=2004-04-23|page=34}} and scored the 1984 Carlo Vanzina comedy film Amarsi un po', which starred Tahnee Welch.