RIP Alfredo Cerruti

 

Alfredo Cerruti died: he was the founder of Squallor and successful TV author

He was 78 years old and he was the voice of the first real demented group of Italian music
companion of Mina, he worked with Sugar and then sign on for several programs for Rai

 

Corriere Della Sera

By Mario Luzzatto Fegiz

October 18, 2020

Alfredo Cerruti has died at 78. His most successful musical adventure was undoubtedly with the Squallor group (whose album “Pompa” has just been re-released), the first truly insane group of Italian music. In addition to him, the lyricists Giancarlo Bigazzi and Daniele Pace, the musician Totò Savio and the record artist Elio Gariboldi were part of the lineup. Born almost as a joke in 1969, the group met in the recording room without texts or scores. Accomplices demijohns of wine and some cheerful little women emptied the bilge of their creativity made of heavy double meanings and politically incorrect, managing to sell thousands of copies of records with vulgarly allusive titles and covers: Troia , Vacca , Pompa , Tromba, Mutando , Arrapaho , Birds of Italy , Touch the apricot . And with him she goes with the last of the Squallor.

 

The relationship with Sugar and Caselli

He could be seen at the Sanremo Casino during the evenings of the Festival. He was an avid gamer, as well as a talent scout (for decades artistic director of CBS Sugar and then of Ricordi), television author, spendthrift and womanizer (he had a relationship with Mina in the 1970s that lasted three years). While he was busy lining up chips if someone asked him "how's it going?" he replied in a meteorological way: "Bolzano minus 8". It meant that he had lost 8 million lire up to that point. Cerutti was an eclectic character: both Ladislao Sugar and his son Piero had entrusted him with the artistic direction of Sugar. However, relations cooled when Caterina Caselli, Piero's wife, founded the "committed" label called l'Ascolto within the company.

 

TV programs

Cerruti then worked on many successful television programs Chi tiriamo in dance, Back all, Cocco and Stasera mi throw in addition to The Sanremo case, The brains and the editions '98 -'99 and '99 -2000 of Domenica In. He participated in first person to the Arbore TV program ndietro tutta and gave voice to a surreal dialogue between two police gazelles (Volante 1 avolante 2). In recent years he was always with water in his throat. Besieged by the taxman who had seized his copyrights and retirement has always cultivated dreams of greatness. He was the first in Milan to have a mobile phone in his car. The son Alfredo Cerruti Jr., Of a very different nature from his father, was the friend and manager of Laura Pausini for over ten years (until 2002).

 

CERRUTI, Alfredo

Born: 6/28/1942, Naples, Campania, Italy

Died: 10/18/2020,

 

Alfredo Cerruti’s western – actor:

Arrapaho – 1984 [narrator, member of Squallor]