Ivan Graziani was born in Abruzzo, in October '46, he moved to Urbino where he studied graphic arts, but then he chose a musical career. Vocation for music? Rather, he answered ironically, for a question of money, because being a guitarist helped him make ends meet. But then he got serious. Ivan Graziani was anti-star par excellence, despite the fame and popularity he had acquired, he didn't often go on television, to say the least; he didn't call boring and sometimes useless press conferences for the presentation of records, or even didn't even try to tear the headlines, as long as they talked about it: he was entitled to the anti-star patent, a pass that few people have today. In his curriculum Graziani boasts a background of nightclubs and dance halls, arenas and applause that he barely won at the beginning of the '70s in the Brera clubs in Milan, offering an original type of guitar-bar outside of any typical canon of that period. It was also during those years that he collaborated with Lucio Battisti, P.F.M. and Antonello Venditti, among others. His first record, now unobtainable, is "La città che io vorrei", released in 1973, followed three years later by another album, "Ballata per quattro stagioni", full of impressionistic suggestions. The song that launched him is from 1977: it was entitled "Lugano addio", the record was "I lupi", a title chosen because, as he declared, he was literally fascinated by this animal. It was a record released in 1978, entitled "Pigro", and above all thanks to what remains one of his most beautiful songs, "Mona Lisa", inspired by the theft of the "Mona Lisa" that the singer-songwriter tells with lively rhythm and funny lyrics to make Ivan Graziani's subtle voice and pungent irony really popular, his dry style, always halfway between singer-songwriter and rock, his glasses with big red coloured frames. His stylistic style has always been to play with wisdom between sentimental ballad and melodic rock, light, mixing irony and melancholy, light, tender female portraits, but also small satires of everyday life and cultural conformism (for example in Pigro). Graziani's career continues regularly. One record a year: in '79 "Agnese dolce Agnese" was released, in '80 it was the turn of "Viaggi e intemperie" (with the beautiful and sad Florence). Graziani continued to release records with her tireless regularity until the early nineties.
