RIP Roberto Donati

 

Maestro Roberto Donati died on January 6^th a week before his 80^th birthday. Born in Pesaro, Marche, Italy on January 13, 1946, he was raised in Italy in the sixties. As a guitarist/singer he ended up forming a wide variety of bands playing a broad spectrum of musical genres like Rock, Pop, R&B and Country & Western. Many of his songs were recorded as singles on the Belldisc label in the late sixties and seventies. Later he became a well-respected film composer of such films as 1980s “Eaten Alive” and 1981’s “Cannibal Ferox”. He composed the score using the alias Budy along with Fiamma Maglione for the 1976 Spaghetti western “Apache Woman” starring Al Cliver and Clara Hopf.