Franco Bracardi was born in Rome, Italy on May 16, 1937.
He began his artistic career in the music field, as an accompanist, composer
and small impresario. He was quite successful, in the 1960s, with the The
Flippers complex, alongside Lucio Dalla. In 1970 he joined the editors of the
program ‘Alto gradimento’, in which he mainly dealt with writing radio gags,
together with Renzo Arbore, Gianni Boncompagni, Mario Marenco and his elder
brother, the famous comedian Giorgio Bracardi. He remained working as an author
at RAI for over ten years, also taking care of the ‘Discoring’ program. He was
also conductor on minor television programs, under the name of Solforio.
In 1972 he recorded a 45 rpm record with the quintet NU
Orleans Rubbish Band, which was composed not only by Bracardi on the piano, but
Fabrizio Zampa on drums, Mauro Chiari on bass, Massimo Catalan to the trombone
and Renzo Arbore on the clarinet; this group published a 45 rpm record,
containing ‘She was Not an Angel’ and ‘The Stage Boy’, recorded by the
five. He was the author of the music of
"Strapazzami di coccole", written by Gianni Boncompagni and
interpreted by Topo Gigio.
His greatest fame was due to his twenty plus years
participating on the ‘Maurizio Costanzo Show’ where he played the role of the
pianist who was entrusted with the task of stressing, dampening and improvising
the difficult or salient moments of the show. In the cinema he played an
interesting character figure, used in many films, especially in the 1980: we
remember him mainly in the role as Lino Banfi 's cousin in the comedy
"Vieni avanti cretino" (1982), directed by Luciano Salce .
As a composer he had much successes with Raffaella CarrĂ (A
far l'amore comincia tu, Ballo ballo, E salutala per me, Pedro, Forte forte
forte, Black-cat), with whom he played pleasant duets on the television variety
show ‘Fantastico tre’ in 1982. He also wrote songs for other performers: his
song "Bambina mia" (composed with Anna Rita Della Rosa with lyrics by
Gianni Boncompagni and Daniele Pace ) was recorded for Armonium. He scored the
Europ-western “...Altrimenti vi ammucchiamo” (Kung Fu Brothers in the Wild
West) in 1973 using the alias Franco Brocardi.
Franco Bracardi died in Rome on
February 27, 2005 following an illness.
BROCARDI, Franco (aka Solforio) (Franco
Bracardi) [5/16/1937, Rome, Lazio,
Italy – 2/27/2005, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – composer, songwriter, musician
(piano), film, TV actor, brother of producer, wrtier, composer, actor Giorgio
Bracardi [1933- ], member of ‘The
Flippers’
Kung Fu Brothers in the Wild
West - 1973
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