Caparezza

Person · Open Library

Born

1973

Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Italy

Active from

1973-10-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

156,962

Total plays

8,451,310

CapaRezza is the pseudonym of Michele Salvemini, an Italian singer originating in Apulia, Italy (born in Molfetta, October 9th, 1973). CapaRezza lyrics criticize society with a pungent irony in contexts that are sometimes fantastic and unreal. At first CapaRezza may seem nonsensical because he uses many strange metaphors, and above all, since he has disowned the mainstream of hip-hop, he appears a nonconformist refused by the most part of Italy. In his four albums there is everything: anger and

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Recent publications · Crossref

1 total works indexed

1. <i>NF1</i>gene inactivation acts as a tumor driver in<i>RET/RAS</i>-negative medullary thyroid carcinomas

   · 2023 · cited 15x

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Quotes

• “There is a shortage of walls used for memory, | pure vanad, it hurts like a tooth that cays | my weakness for the victims of history; | they hated them, humiliated them, left them to fate | to court them after death. (from La putta sassaiola dell'ingiuria, n. 9)”
• “Sti quindicenni have malaria, | the lazy face, they already use Viagra, | in the festival of fools the fools are many, | thick flocks of dead goths statev' accuorti! | They preach death, they want death, death in spade, | if you like death explain ... what do you not kill yourself? (From Chi c*zzo me lo, n. 10)”
• “Italians good people, Italians with a heart of gold, | the Italy is a republic founded on the work | of saints, poets, mafia and navigators | but everyone would like Montessori in their fingers. (from Il secondo me, n. 1)”
• “When there was him the trains left on time, | when he was there they deported us on time, | when he was there we weren't there | that if we were there we would have been pale. (from The second opinion of me , n. 1)”
• “Here, | comes the bad and persuasive oc, | a proud liar who knows how to say only what people want to hear, | I do not touch his sago, | I am a deaf sorce to the piper. the entry The Pied Piper of Hamelin”
• “He wants to put me under 'sto signorotto | who boasts of the saint | attached to the dashboard, | did not understand that I am willing | to stay under | only when I fuck . (from I come from the Moon , n. 6)”

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Key facts

Musical artist.name

Caparezza

Musical artist.caption

Caparezza in 2014

Musical artist.birth_name

Michele Salvemini

Musical artist.birth_place

Molfetta, Apulia, Italy

Musical artist.image

Caparezza live @ Koko, London 12 10 2014 (15528942992).jpg

Musical artist.years_active

1995–present

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