Gino Vannelli is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose particularity is to start writing songs at the age of 15.
He released his first album "Crazy life" in 1973. Without much success.
Things suddenly picked up speed the following year in 1974 when the album "Powerful people" was released, which was to be tracked as "People gotta move". Which will give the artist his first major success.
But he will have to wait for 1978 and the album "Brother to brother" to finally see him rewarded for his efforts with the flagship track "I just wanna stop". The title is a real hit across the North American continent.
New success in 1981 with the single "Living inside myself" from the album "Nightwalker". And which remains one of his biggest hits to this day.
As the album "Twisted Heart" planned for 1982 never saw the light of day, it was not until 1985 that the next album was released, which appeared under the name "Black Cars". The eponymous single was released in the wake and hit the world. Followed by a few "Hurts to be in love" which in turn completes a more than honorable course. The singer's notoriety was then at its zenith.
In 1987 the album "Big dreamers never sleep" was released which produced the artist's last notorious success, "Wild horses".
The albums and singles that will be released later will unfortunately not have the same level of success as the previous ones.
To discover or rediscover.
Discography (among others ...) :
Gina bold (Vann-Elli) 1970
Never cry again (Vann-Elli) 1970
People gotta move 1974
Powerful people 1975
Love me now 1975
Keep on walking 1976
Love of my life 1976
I just wanna stop 1978
Wheels of life 1979
The river must flow 1979
Living inside myself 1981
Nightwalker 1981
The longer you wait 1982
Appaloosa 1984
Black cars 1985
Hurts to be in love 1985
Just a motion away 1985
Wild horses 1987
In the name of money 1987
Persona non grata 1987
The time of day 1990
Cry of love 1991
If I should lose this love 1991
L'amour est loi (Wheels of life) 1993
None so beautiful 1995
I die a little more each day 1995
Slow love 1998
A woman crossed in love 1998
Close your eyes 2001
The last dance 2002
Una rosa a dicembre 2002
It's only love 2006
Venus envy 2006
These are the days 2006
Gypsy days 2009
Evermore 2009
The surest things can change 2009
Older n'wizer 2019
Gimme back my life 2019
Yet something beautiful 2019
El camino del perdon 2019
Parole per mio padre 2019
How sweet the silence 2020
Clips :
1970...the first steps. It's hard to imagine at this stage the huge career that awaits this young singer in the years and decades to come...
1970... it is clear that the singer's potential is real but he now has to find the style and the sound that will make all the difference...
1974 ... we find him 4 years later and the work ended up paying off because he recorded his first notorious success here. For the moment, nothing exceptional but the level will go up, you just have to be patient...
1975...after a year 1974 which saw him take off for good, the following year was slightly below. The artist must find his definitive style...
1975... what is rather encouraging is that each new title that comes out is classified, which is necessarily a good omen for the rest of the events...
1976... the rise in power is slow, of course, but very real. It is obvious that at some point all this will end up taking him high, very high...
1976...success spread slowly but surely to all of North America. Everything is now ready for the big fireworks, it feels...
1978 ... then comes THIS title. The title that allows the artist to record his first mega hit. All on a sumptuous and highly inspired Ultimate Slow. Great work !
1979 ... he reoffends 1 year later in the same register. And the result is more or less equal to the previous gem. An Intimist niche that is particularly successful for him...
1979... the last title of a decade which will have seen him hatch and then explode at the highest level. It remains to be seen what the next decade has in store for him...
1981 ... welcome to the next decade. And we start again on the same bases. When a recipe works, why change it...?!
1981 ... the tempo accelerates slowly but surely. Whatever the field, the artist's talent is obvious and asserts itself more and more, that's clear !
1982 ... not much to eat in this new year but the 'little' is of quality, that's for sure. We will therefore be largely satisfied with it !
1984 ... a somewhat winded beginning of the 80s and which saw him do more on the spot than anything else. He will therefore have to ask himself the right questions and quickly...
1985 ... which will undoubtedly remain as one of his most emblematic hits. After years 1983 and 1984 almost empty, we find it in this year 1985 in a dazzling form. And the result is amazing ! MAS-TER-FUL !
1985 ... a decidedly exceptional year. It connects mega hits at the speed of light. Here he signs a new hallucinating Ultimate Slow which makes him definitively enter the musical legend of the 80s. Absolutely MA-GIC !
1985...difficult for this title to stand the comparison with the 2 huge previous titles. A notch below necessarily but not devoid of interest, that's clear...
1987 ... new air hole in 1986. Here he is back in 1987 in an astonishing musical register. A musical paradox which does not prevent him from recording a new top hit ...
1987 ... shattering return to Dance. Admittedly, it will not be the top mega hit of the year but anyway, it rocks serious !
1987...a second half of the decade that will turn out to be more complicated to manage than expected. We're not going to lie to each other, the best years are now behind him...
1990 ... he will have gone through 3 decades, leaving in each one traces of great, even very great quality. A well-deserved longevity !
1991 ... the last major year. Despite titles of always obvious quality, the Aura of the artist inevitably and irreparably decreases ...
1991 ... the last notorious success. More than 20 years after his debut, the artist signs here a last beautiful title. A very high-class career which ends perfectly !
1993... he will try the duo of shock but especially of charm in the hope that it can bring him back a little bit in the race. Sadly disappointed...
1995...a sequel that will see him radically change his style and sound. A reorientation that will make the general public flee almost definitively...
1995... it was a good feeling to want to question yourself but this way of doing it will not have been the right one unfortunately...
1998... he was automatically marginalized and he will never return to the race. Afterwards, everyone leads his career as he sees fit...
1998...this does not prevent him from continuing to produce quality titles but he is now completely out of step with the latest musical standards of the moment...
2001...he begins his 4th decade here with the firm intention of continuing the adventure as far as possible. Rightly or wrongly, that's something else...
2002...in any case, what is, is that he is still there, which is not the case for most of those who started at the same time as him...
2002...even if we will never see him again in the Dance register, he has not lost his extreme efficiency in the 'emotional' register. It's already that...
2006... he is not discouraged and says to himself that in music everything is always possible and in principle he is absolutely right...
2006... he realized a minimum of the huge gap he now has with the latest musical trends of the moment. It's never too late as they say...
2006...undeniably a good job with this new opus. With the unexpected reward of a comeback in the Albums Charts...
2009...a 2000 decade that saw him make real efforts to get back on track. Efforts that will have paid off and that will have allowed him to reassure himself about the rest of the events...
2009...still just as effective in the Intimist register, a field in which he has always excelled, whatever the times...
2009... the last title of a decade which will have seen him reborn somewhat and come back a little bit in the race. We didn't expect so much...
2019...then not much for almost 10 years. We thought we wouldn't see him again suddenly but it was very bad to know him...
2019...he is certainly coming back, but in a musical mode that will once again marginalize him de facto. Afterwards it is him who sees as they say...
2019... we won't ramake him as they say and he will continue to lead his career as he sees fit and not as we would like him to lead it...
2019... he will have produced almost nothing during this whole decade but will have really put the package in at the very end. We take, we take !
2019... how far will he have the courage to push the adventure a little further, good question. What is certain is that with him everything is always possible...
2020... he will have gone through the 70s, then the 80s, then the 90s, then the 2000s, then the 2010s and here he is at the gates of this new 2020s. What talent and above all what longevity !
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