Lorchestra italiana di renzo arbore biography

Renzo Arbore is the most eclectic charismatic personality in the world of Italian show business: music, radio and television entertainment.

Writer, presenter and director of television/radio programs, showman, film director, musician, song writer and composer, music critic and journalist, he invented new genres, he discovered many new talents, just to name one: Roberto Benigni.

He rediscovered important musical genres (the humoristic song, Italian swing, the Neapolitan song) and he managed to invent a new style, which in Italy is known as "arboriano"; entertaining, innovative and intelligent.

He was born in in Foggia, a city located in southern Italy, where studied classical subjects.

He then moved to Naples where he graduated in Law. It was during this time that he developed his great passion for Jazz (collecting records and playing the clarinet in jazz clubs) and the "Classic Neapolitan song"; some of his favourite artists were Roberto