Giovanna Daffini


Giovanna Daffini was an Italian singer, associated with the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano movement.

Life

Born at Villa Saviola, in the province of Mantua, she started associating with travelling musicians from an early age. During the rice-growing season she worked in the rice-growing districts of Novara and Vercelli. It was here that she learned the folk-songs that afterwards made her famous. She was later accompanied by her husband, Vittorio Carpi, on violin, at wedding dances and country festivals.
In 1962 she recorded the song "Alla mattina appena alzata", a version of Bella Ciao, for the musicologists Gianni Bosio and Roberto Leydi.
She died at Gualtieri, where she had spent much of her life, in 1969.

Recordings

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