Don Backy

Aldo Caponi (born 21 August 1939), known professionally as Don Backy, is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor.

Life and career Born in Santa Croce sull'Arno, Caponi spent his early years in Castellammare di Stabia before returning to his hometown in 1955. In the late 1950s, particularly after watching the film Rock Around the Clock, he became passionate of rock and roll and decided to pursue a musical career, founding the rock band Kiss. In the same period, Don Backy also started a parallel acting career following his breakout in Gianni Puccini's The Seven Cervi Brothers. In 1971, he left Amico to join Compagnia Generale del Disco, with whom he got two major hits, Sanremo Music Festival 1971 entry "Bianchi cristalli sereni" and "Fantasia", and after working for other labels in the late 1970s he founded his label Ciliegia Bianca. In 1978, he wrote a musical comedy, Sognando, and in 1981 his song "Importa niente" became opening theme of Domenica in. His variegated career also include novels, essays, comics, and painting.

Discography Studio albums 1965 - L'amore 1968 - Casa bianca 1968 - Le quattro stagioni di Don Backy 1971 - Fantasia 1973 - Io più te 1978 - Sognando 1979 - Vivendo cantando 1981 - Difetti e virtù 1981 - Teomedio (Uccello di Rapina) 1984 - Spring, Summer, Autunm & Winter 1988 - Rock and Roll / Otto belle signore 1990 - Finalmente... 1992 - Sulla strada 1994 - X amore e X rabbia 1995 - Carnevalando 2003 - Signori si nasce e io lo nacqui 2006 - Ieri e oggi 2010 - Il mestiere delle canzoni 2015 - A noi piacevano gli Everly Brothers 2017 - Pianeta donna

Selected filmography The Monk of Monza by Sergio Corbucci (1963) Super rapina a Milano by Adriano Celentano (1964) Bandits in Milan (aka The Violent Four) by Carlo Lizzani (1968) The Seven Cervi Brothers by Gianni Puccini (1968) The Tough and the Mighty by Carlo Lizzani (1969) Satyricon by Gian Luigi Polidoro (1969) The Fourth Wall by Adriano Bolzoni (1969) Mafia Connection by Camillo Bazzoni (1970) Una cavalla tutta nuda by Franco Rossetti (1972) When Women Were Called Virgins by Aldo Grimaldi (1972) Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor by Alfonso Brescia (1972) Rabid Dogs by Mario Bava (1974) Loves, Beds and Betrayals by Alfonso Brescia (1977) Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man by Bernardo Bertolucci (1981) Bread and Tulips by Silvio Soldini (2000) Impotenti esistenziali by Giuseppe Cirillo (2009)

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