Who Are Those Singers & Musicians ~ Giancarlo Guardabassi

 

The son of Count Alberto Guardabassi a doctor and Baroness Orietta Danzetta, Giancarlo Guardabassi which originated from an ancient family from Perugia. Giancarlo Guardabassi was born on August 21, 1937, in Foligno, Perugia, Italy. He lived in Via Guardabassi, so called in honor of his ancestor, Senator Francesco Guardabassi, hero of the Risorgimento of the Umbrian capital.

In the fifties he attended the classical high school in via Guardabassi in Perugia and later graduated in Law at the University of Perugia, where he initially began working as a lawyer at a well-known law firm. In November 1958 he won the National Competition of Light Music Edera d'Oro of Collescipoli. In the first half of the 1960s Guardabassi was introduced to the talent-scout and author Franco Migliacci by his friend and pianist Claudio Mantovani. In the Roman house of Migliacci, Guardabassi held an audition that was successful. Migliacci and Mantovani then brought Guardabassi to the court of the musician Bruno Zambrini and Guardabassi's musical career began. “Se ti senti sola”, a song he presented at the Cantagiro in 1964, reached the top of the Italian charts. Among his other successes “Sulamente a mia”, a song with which he participated in the Naples Festival of 1964 paired with Claudio Villa, “Da' retta a me, A me piace tua figlia”.

Guardabassi recorded some hits also in Spanish and after a tour in Argentina and Brazil his songs were broadcast on the radios of South and Central America, where he became known in particular in Argentina and Cuba. In the Caribbean Island, in what was called the "prodigious decade", Giancarlo Guardabassi was presented on the radio with his real name or preferably with the adapted name of Juan Carlos Guardaban.

Giancarlo also wrote a number of songs and was a DJ for Radio Rai in the 1960s and in the 1970s hosted the radio program “Hot Discs” a contemporary program “Hit Parade”. Guardabassi is considered one of the first Italian disc jockeys, thanks to his youthful and modern style.

From the late seventies to the late nineties, Giancarlo Guardabassi toured Italy with his "GG Show". The show, different every year, was presented in a square; Guardabassi conducted the show accompanied by a musical orchestra and singers, dancers and comedians. In the last editions participated in the show a young Neri Marcorè as a singer and imitator.

Giancarlo sang the song “Fuoco nel Cielo” in the Franco and Ciccio 1964 Spaghetti western “Two Mafiamen in the Far West.”

GUARDABASSI, Giancarlo (aka Juan Carlos Guardaban) [8/21/1937, Foligno, Perugia, Italy -     ] – DJ, singer, songwriter.

Two Mafiamen in the Far West - 1964 [sings: “Fuoco nel cielo”]