Italian singer, songwriter and all-round musician Morgan (Marco Castoldi) has recently published a new solo album featuring Italian songs from the 50s and 60s which were translated and recorded in English to varying degrees of success in the same period.
Italian Songbook Vol. 1 features 4 songs re-recorded and sung by Morgan in Italian and in English, most notably Il Mio Mondo, better known to British audiences as You're My World, a hit for Cilla Black in the 60s.
Morgan sees the album as a 're-evaluation' of Italian popular songwriting of the era, but which has been lost since then.
After a relatively unsuccessful musical career both with his band Bluvertigo and as a solo artist, Morgan has recently become a household name and obtianed greater success in Italy thanks to his role as judge and mentor in the Italian edition of X Factor. His eccentric manners and often controversial opinions mixed with a rich musical knowledge ranging from the classics to new wave and beyond have given extra colour to the popular international format. Thanks to his passion and dedication to his ideas and pupils he has won both editions firstly with the group category in 2008 and more recently with the 'over 25' vocalist category bringing 38 year old Matteo Becucci into first place.
Morgan: the A-Z of X-Factor
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