There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Andrea Parodi (Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy, 18 July 1955 – Quartu Sant'Elena, 17 October 2006) was a Sardinian folk singer. Very popular in Italy because of his work with Tazenda, the first Sardinian pop band to hit the charts in Italy; in the last ten years he followed a solo career, more traditional music-oriented, which led him to work with Noa, Al Di Meola, Fabrizio de André and many others.
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There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Andrea Parodi (Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy, 18 July 1955 – Quartu Sant'Elena, 17 October 2006) was a Sardinian folk singer. Very popular in Italy because of his work with Tazenda, the first Sardinian pop band to hit the charts in Italy; in the last ten years he followed a solo career, more traditional music-oriented, which led him to work with Noa, Al Di Meola, Fabrizio de André and many others. Andrea Parodi was born in Porto Torres (North Sardinia) in 1955. He learned how to play the bugle at 11, playing with the city municipal band. He joined Sole Nero in later Coro degli Angeli. He discovered jazz in 1980 and began performing the professionallly in 1982. Parodi graduated in 1984 at the Conservatory of Cagliari. With Gino Marielli and Gigi Camedda he founded Tazenda in 1988. Andrea Parodi died in 2006 after a strong battle with cancer, Parodi knew about his illness exactly one year before, but kept on singing and performing until three weeks before his death. Discography: With Tazenda: 1988 - Tazenda 1991 - Murales 1992 - Limba 1993 - Il popolo rock (live) 1995 - Fortza Paris 1997 - Il sole di Tazenda (compilation) 2005 - Reunion (live) Solo recordings: 2002 - Abacada 2004 - Andrea Parodi 2005 - Midsummer Night in Sardinia (with Al Di Meola) 2006 - Intimi raccolti 2007 - Rosa Resolza (with Elena Ledda) 2) Andrea Parodi is an Italian singer-songwriter from Cantù, Lombardia. Discography: 2001 - Le piscine di Fecchio 2007 - Soldati
