«The Artist Armando Corsi is a guitar player of international renown. He played with the like of Paco De Lucia, Eric Marienthal, Ivano Fossati, Antonello Salis, the late Bruno Lauzi, Samuele Bersani etc... His new project Buena Suerte takes inspiration from Latin American culture ».Armando Corsi was born in Genoa (Italy) in 1947.
«Smiling guitar» is the loving nickname created by pundits for this modest and only apparently introvert musician. His career started forty years ago in old Genoa cafes where the elderly got togheter to sing and play traditional italian songs.
As a young man he travelled the world on big cruisers learning and performing every night the best music by J. Gilberto, A.C. Jobim, A. Piazzolla. Later on Armando Corsi began working with the like of Paco De Lucia and Eric Marienthal and the great italian songwriter Ivano Fossati with whom he toured for four years in a row.
1995 was a turning point in Corsi’s career, being the year of his first solo album: Itinerari (in italian routes). The album – a wide ranging voyage through different musical worlds – was composed, arranged and produced by Corsi himself.
For his second CD, Duende, issued in 2002 by Officinae Artist, Armando Corsi collaborated with Beppe Quirici and Elio Rivagli. In 2006 he wrote a song with Samuele Bersani, released in Bersani’s album, L’aldiquà. 2006 is also the year of Buena Suerte and features the late Bruno Lauzi. The last Lauzi’s recorded song, Sia benedetto il samba (“Bless the Samba”) was composed for this album by Corsi and Lauzi himself.
The line-up is completed by Mario Arcari, Fabio Vernizzi and Marco Fadda. Buena suerte is a vibrating work taking inspiration, as always in Armando’s career, from the best Latin American music.
"La via dell'Amore" is dated 2008 and it's a pure and magician live session together with his closed friend and virtuous musician guitarist Beppe Quirici.
Upcoming "Alma", an original and personal review of Fado, the traditional portuguese folk song, with the provision of new vocal harmonies and the grafting of percussion and wind instruments.
Helena Molinari