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Nino Ferrer

real name Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari

Genoa, Italy · 1934-08-15 – 1998-08-13

Nino Ferrer is credited on 1,007 releases across 320 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1959–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Italian-born French singer-songwriter, painter and author born August 15, 1934 in Genoa, Italy and died August 13, 1998 in Montcuq (Lot, France).
He started playing double bass in a Jazz trio in the '50s, accompanying Richard Bennett and Bill Coleman.
Perhaps best known in France for a string of comedic hits in the '60s and in Italy for RnB protest songs such as La Pella Nera, Ferrer had a complicated relationship with the music industry, feeling his public persona and recognition at odds with his artistic aspirations.
His 1975 classic Le Sud exemplifies this relationship: a million selling single in France, its success eclipsed the English language album it was taken, Nino And Radiah, which only enjoyed cult status.
He continued releasing music during the '80s and '90s, often collaborating with Mickey Finn, became a French citizen in 1989 and committed suicide in 1998.

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