Fabrizio Casalino

Singer-songwriter and talented comedian from Genoa, Fabrizio Casalino has been collecting various discographic and television successes since the late 90s. His career as a singer-songwriter began at the Tenco Prize in 1994 and then solidified with his first album "Come un angelo," distributed by Polygram also in Spanish throughout South America and acclaimed at "Un disco per l'estate". He has collaborated as a writer with great Italian artists, from Cristiano de André ("Sapevo il credo") to Mario Biondi ("Finale in dissolvenza"), with whom he duets his song in the album “Due”.

In 1999, the collaboration with I Cavalli Marci revealed Fabrizio's comedic streak, starting a true parallel career as a singer, participating in various important television programs on RAI and Mediaset (Bulldozer, Mai Dire Martedì, Colorado Cafè, GLOB, Rai dire Niùs). As the sole author of his texts and characters, Fabrizio stands out especially for the figure of Giginho, a supposed Brazilian singer who, with a marked accent and always accompanied by the samba of his guitar, tells comic stories from the favela, often satirically compared to Italian reality. His character Mirko (a lazy teenager devoted to idleness and video games) and his parodies of Mario Biondi and Gianluca Grignani, as well as his caricatures of the main Italian singer-songwriters, from Vasco Rossi to Carmen Consoli, from Franco Battiato to Tiromancino, also become popular. He is also the founder of the Genoese comic group Pirati dei Caruggi.

While his career as a comedian progresses, Fabrizio never abandons his activity as a singer-songwriter and continues to write songs in Italian and Genoese dialect, recently winning the Bindi Prize.