Erriquez

Erriquez

Bandabardò is an Italian folk rock band, it was formed in 1993.He immediately devoted himself to an intense live activity in Italy and France. Their recording debut dates back to 1996 with Il circo mangione (winner of the Ciampi Award for best debut of the year), followed by Iniziali bì-bì, which contains their first hit Beppeanna. After the mini-live Barbaro tour they publish Se mi rilasso... collasso, a live that contains the studio version of Manifesto, another piece of immediate success. In 2000 Mojito Football Club was released, followed by Bondo! Bondo! and from another tour in Spain, France and Switzerland and after a while Jose Ramon Caraballo Armas, better known as Ramon, joins the formation on winds and percussion. Three steps forward in 2004, produced by Carlo U. Rossi is another top ten success and in the same year the autobiography “Vento in faccia”, written with Massimo Cotto and published by Arcana, and a DVD are published with the same title which documents the opening concert of the new tour recorded in Florence, their city. In 2006 it was the turn of the Fuori Orario collection, a double CD also containing unreleased tracks which still hits the FIMI top ten (and takes first place in the charts of independent sales outlets). Incessant live activity in Italy and abroad, they also play in Mexico where, in support of the Zapatista communities and in collaboration with the Ya-Basta! they finance the "Semillita del Sol" project, for the schooling of the indigenous populations of Chiapas. After a tour in Canada, Ottavio was released, followed by a theatrical tour. In 2010, for XL magazine, they published Allegro ma non troppo (containing two unreleased songs and live performances) and in the same year, together with the Save the Children association, they participated in a schooling project in northern Ethiopia, making Sette x uno together with Dario Fo, Giobbe Covatta, David Riondino, Enzo Iacchetti, Davide Enia and Ascanio Celestini. After the release of Scaccianuvole (2011) there is a 3-year break before arriving at the unreleased album entitled L'improbabile which marks their return to a major label since Initiali Bì-Bì (this time with Warner) and the keyboardist Federico “Pacio” Pacini joined the line-up. In the meantime, the band created the soundtrack for the film "L'Universale", by Federico Micali, which was released in theaters in April 2016 while Sky Arte dedicated a docufilm to them entitled "Bandabardò, un mistero italiano", with Carlo Lucarelli. After another European tour with stops in London, Dublin, Amsterdam and Berlin, in 2018 a new version of Beppeanna entitled Se mi rilasso collasso was released on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the birth of the band. The song sees the participation of Stefano Bollani, Caparezza, Carmen Consoli, Daniele Silvestri and Max Gazzè followed, on December 7, 2018, by a party-concert at the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence where the Band celebrates together with Max Gazzè, Carmen Consoli, Tonino Carotone, Modena City Ramblers, Cisco and Piero Pelù. Still live in 2019, they reach 1640 concerts on the last date of the 2019 Summer Tour. On February 14, 2021, Enrico "Erriquez" Greppi disappears due to an incurable disease. A year later the band communicated its intention to continue its activity, announcing a collaboration with his friend Cisco. On May 20, 2022, Non fa paura was released, an album created together with Cisco, followed by a new tour.

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