RANFA

SBRENGA

        Updated  14 th November    

 

 NEW CD!!!    

Who?

Ranfa, very rare species of singer, was born in Florence in 1969, tries to go to school and he goes there...running! As a matter of fact,  sport would be his first love, an activity in which he excels, as a young boy.

Questions?

70 kilos of flesh stretching for 1,78m  height (!?) who likes, besides singing: drawing, cuddling his kids (Diego, Mirko and Viola), reading comics, and sweating… while he teaches  ‘spinning’ it’s his second or, perhaps, third job!

A little bit of history...

He start his activity as a singer in 1988, he tries his hand at singing  west coast music and covers of the Queen. Afterwards he approaches different musical genres among which blues, funky, disco music, musical (he is Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, and Rocky in the Rocky Horror Show). But it’s in the Hard Rock genre that he can better express his singing qualities: he is finally able to perform songs which suits him completely ... a tenor repertoire at last !!! 

" …it was a very strong emotional experience to be able to sing with Ian Paice " (mythic drummer of Deep Purple) in Florence, on the 21st of December 2000 and in Como on the 22nd of September 2005!!!

On the 14th April 2005 he had the honour of singing  "Here I go again" with the “real” guitarrists of the Whitesnake: Moody & Marsden! 

He has founded and sang for 6 years, from 1999 . With the Purple Sucker, coverband of the Deep Purple, which has 50 concerts  to its credit.

He has recorded a track with Mr.IAN PAICE !!! The outcome will be soon on a cd, in which you can also find a great duet with the fabulous voice of  The House of Lords, James Christian. The guitarrist (ex Whitesnake) Bernie Marsden. The guitarrist (ex Ronnie James Dio) Tracy G and many other musicians .......

To book the forthcoming cd, write to info@andrea-ranfa.com  

In the object write “Little Hard Blues booking”

 

Video promo:

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=ddJ9q9Y098I

A bit of personal taste...

 

 

Voices which make him dream:

 

 

FREDDIE MERCURY http://queenonline.com/
MINA http://www.minamazzini.com/
GLENN HUGHES http://www.glennhughes.com/  
PAUL RODGERS http://www.paulrodgers.com/  
GEORGE MICHAEL http://www.aegean.net/  
STEVIE WONDER http://http://steviewonder.free.fr/ 
STEVE TYLER http://www.aerosmith.com/detect.html  
RONNIE JAMES DIO http://www.ronniejamesdio.com

 

 

His 10 favourite albums (to bring on a desert island….) are:


Pump
-Aerosmith
Made in Japan
-Deep Purple

LED ZEPPELIN II-Led zeppelin

News of the world-Queen

Burning Japan Live-Glenn Hughes
www.pfm.it-Premiata ForneriaMarconi        

Talking book-Stevie Wonder

Here and there-Elton John

A kind of magic-Queen

Antologia-Mina

 

He’d like to perform with

 

 

...with unreachable myths, also because some of the are unfortunately departed … sigh!!!

The order in which I put them it is not motivated by the tecnique used by these musicians, but by the feelings they gave me and give me during their performances.

I thank them all for the dreams they aroused and which are always in my mind, everytime I sing...

 

 

     DRUMMERS:

  1-Franz Di Cioccio-(P.F.M.)

  2-Ian Paice-(Deep Purple-Whitsnake-Moore-Moonstone Project)

  3-Cozy Powell-(Rainbow-J.Beck group-May-Malmsteen)

  4-Carmine Appice-(Vanilla fudge-Ted Nugent-Beck Bogert Appice-Rod Stewart-Tommy Bolin-Blue Murder)

  5-Terry Bozzio-(UK-F.Zappa-J.Beck-S.Vai-Duran Duran)

  6-Agostino Marangolo-(Goblin)

  7-Stewart Copeland-(the Police-Peter Gabriel)

  8-Randy Castillo-(O. Osbourne-Motley Crue)

  9-Roberto Gualdi-(PFM-Mollo-Electric zoo)

10-Roger Taylor-(Queen)

    BASS PLAYERS:

  1-Glenn Hughes-(Deep Purple-Trapeze-Black Sabbath-J.L.Turner)

  2-Patric Dijvas-(P.F.M.-Area)

  3-Jack Bruce-(Cream)

  4-Roger Glover-(Deep Purple-Rainbow)

  5-Verdine White-(Earth Wind & Fire)

  6-Gary Thain-(Uriah Heep)

  7-Billy Sheean-(Talas-David Lee Roth-Mr.Big-Powell-Niacin)

  8-Bob Daisley-(O. Osbourne-Gary Moore-Malmsteen-Uriah Heep-Rainbow)

  9- Neil Murray-(Whitesnake-May-Gary Moore-Cozy Powell-Colosseum II-Black Sabbath-Badlands-Company of Snake)

10-Doug Wimbish-(Living colour)

    KEYBOARD PLAYERS:

  1-Jon Lord-(Deep Purple-Whitesnake)

  2-Don Airey-(Deep Purple-Moore-Rainbow-Osbourne)

  3-Flavio Premoli-(P.F.M.)

  4-Claudio Simonetti-(Goblin)

  5-Steve Walsh-(Kansas-Moonstone Project)

  6-Keith Emerson-(Nice-E.L.P)

  7-Cris Stainton-(Joe Cocker-Clapton-Ramazzotti-Wyman)

  8-Max Middleton-(J.Beck Group)

  9-Ad Jobson-(UK)

10-Jordan Rudess-(Dream Theater-Dixie Dregs-Vinnie Moore)

    GUITARRISTS:

  1-Brian May-(Queen)

  2-Eddy Van Halen-(Van Halen)

  3-Ritchie Blackmore(Deep Purple-Rainbow)

  4-Jimmy Page-(led zeppelin-yardbirds)

  5-Jimy Hendrix

  6-Steve Morse-(Deep Purple)

  7-Gary Moore-(Thin lizzy-Colosseum II)

  8-Jeff Beck-(Yardbirds)

  9-Angus Young-(Ac-Dc)

 10-Eric Clapton-(Blind faith-Yardbirds-Mayall)

 

 

A few of his favorite movies

 

 

YOUNG FRANKESTEIN ( and all Mel Brooks movies)

REAR WINDOW (and all Hitchcock movies)

ALL THE WALT DISNEY CARTOONS

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

NON CI RESTA CHE PIANGERE
PER AMORE SOLO PER AMORE

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

BENVENUTI IN CASA GORI

FARINELLI-VOCE REGINA

MISSISSIPPI BURNING

THE  COLOR PURPLE

SCHINDLER'S LIST

HIGHLANDER

EXCALIBUR

THE THING

MUSIC BOX

AIRPLANE!

DRACULA

MISERY

ROCKY

SEVEN

 

 

…and of his favourite comics  


 All the Marvel universe ( in particular the works of:
John Buscema-Castellini-Andru-Alex Ross)
DRUNA-Serpieri
CATTIVIK-Silver


The Drawers:

Ugolini, Frazzetta, Fernandez, Serpieri e Raymond

...at the moment    

On the 2nd of February, BERNIE MARSDEN (ex Whitesnake)is going to be in a gig with Ranfa and Purple Sucker!

New performance with IAN PAICE and Matteo Filippini:

 30th november at Music of Cologne, 2nd dicember at "The Grapes" in Pontremoli (MS) and 4th dicember at the Storyville Arezzo!

Here poster of the 2 dicember

 

 

Andrea RANFA Ranfagni sings in different groups. He is part of the Kaspar Florence Company, which has been staging the ROCKY HORROR SHOWfor years all over Italy … and he is Rocky!

 

Young Lust -Tribute band of Aerosmith  

Funk in the city - Coverband funky/disco

He is the front man of Purple Sucker! This is by all means the band he mostly holds dear. Together since 1999, Ranfa and his top musician friends, present the most famous songs and the not very famous songs, of the historic band Deep Purple. The current line-up (Mark VIII) :

Alessandro Raimondi (drums)

Andrea Bartolini  (bass)

Roberto di Peco (Keyboards and hammond)

Simone Tollis (guitar)

...he also sings in:

Battisti revolution Lucio Battisti Tribute band 
Kill the king Rainbow Tribute band  
Gas gas Acoustic Trio
Ranfa blues band Blues coverband 
Purple sucker Deep Purple Coverband  
Time to live Uriah Heep Tribute band
Travellin band Creedence clearwater revival Tribute band                      
Upon my soul rhythm'n'blues-funky Cover band

An evening with IAN PAICE and  Matteo Filippini's BAND 

Great evening with Ian Paice and the faboulous group of Matteo Filippini,Nik Mazzucconi (bass), Gianluca Tagliavini (keyboards), Roberto Tiranti (voice ). Cermenate 22/09/2005

This is the cover of the concert at the Teatro Aurora in Marghera on the 5th of February to celebrate 30 years since the publishing of The album BURN

 

This instead is the cover of the evening at theatre Aurora in Marghera on the 5th of February 2005.The money raised from the concert and the sale of the DVD are entirely given to the cultural association "I ragazzi della panchina" (The guys of the bench). It was an honour for us to be part of it!! If you’re interested in the dvd, send an e- mail to sanluci1@aliceposta.it

" …it was a very strong emotional experience to be able to sing with Ian Paice " (mythic drummer of Deep Purple) in Florence, on the 21st of December 2000 !!!

 

 

 
...Ranfa minute to minute... ...Ranfa with a few VIPS of the world of music  
...Where to find Ranfa ...Friends and myths
...Little Discography ...Reviews "Little hard blues"

contacts:

ranfamv@libero.it

info@andrea-ranfa.com