Returning tonight on TV, Tuesday, April 16 on Italia 1, Le Iene. Among the guests of Veronica Gentile and Max Angioni, Mauro Repetto will also arrive, founder, together with Max Pezzali, of the music group 883.
Let's discover something more about the Italian lyricist naturalized French.
Who is Mauro Repetto
Mauro Repetto was born in Genoa on December 26, 1968 (he is 55 years old), but grew up in Pavia with his parents Elio Repetto and Margherita Slajmer and his younger sister Veronica, attended the Niccolò Copernico scientific high school in that city where, in the third year, he had as a classmate Max Pezzali, a year older and failed in the previous school year, with whom he began to hang out and write songs. He is also an animator in tourist villages.
Success with 883
In 1989, he and Pezzali participated as the duo "I Pop" in a television show on Italia1, called 1, 2, 3 Jovanotti and hosted by the then emerging Jovanotti. After founding 883 and meeting Claudio Cecchetto, in 1991 they participated in the Castrocaro Festival with the song Non me la menare. They achieved initial success with their first album Hanno ucciso l'Uomo Ragno. Repetto is co-author of many of the band's successes, however, he fails to find a role in live performances: in fact, while Pezzali sings, he moves and dances on stage: this sparks the irony of the press. In 1993, 883 released the album Nord sud ovest est, which sold twice as much as the previous one. In 1994, his last album with 883, Remix '94 containing dance versions of the hits from the first two albums, was released. His last appearance with Max Pezzali, as a partner, was in an episode of Roxy Bar by Red Ronnie, dated January 14, 1994. On Easter Saturday of that year, after meeting up for work, Max says goodbye to his friend with plans to meet the following Monday, but Mauro hints at his intention to leave and abandon the project. Max Pezzali and Claudio Cecchetto tried to convince him to stay, but in vain.
The Farewell to Max Pezzali
Mauro does not find himself in the rhythm, demands, and consequences stemming from success: for him, everything was limited to composing songs with his friend in the basement. He goes through a period where he did not know which path was his. "The years' is the last song we write together, Max and I, it's really the final whistle - he tells Fanpage - 'Same story, same place, same bar', I realize that the song is beautiful, but I don't want the same story, nor the same place, nor the same bar, even though I'm aware that it's a legendary song and that I really like it. I want to leave, I want to go to fashion week, I want to meet a woman who for me is the most beautiful in the world, at that moment".
From the United States to Paris
Having fled to the United States in search of a model he will never meet, he returned to Italy but without success and started from scratch at Disneyland Paris. "I started at Disney saying I had a degree in Literature and they put me to work as a cowboy the next morning. I was a cowboy until an Italian who was deputy director of the park recognized me and asked me what I was doing there and put me in the most beautiful department of the Walt Disney Company, where I am still currently, so I started from scratch, really not wanting to cheat, I wanted to give all my energy towards the past without looking at myself or even in the rearview mirror. Starting from scratch, dressed as a cowboy – which is less than Goofy or anyway like Goofy -, really allowed me to have all the energy aimed at seeking new girls, new references, new bars, new stories, new moments in my Bastille neighborhood, where I lived and still live now in Paris".
What he does today
Repetto now has a position, he is an event executive for Walt Disney company, and can dispel some myths about his past and tell what happened. However, his return does not mean that his signature can be added to that song: "No, I will never look for it, precisely because I wanted to leave with this song, it's as if you leave a girlfriend but try to still go out with her, at least on Fridays, well no, you leave a girlfriend because you want to go elsewhere, so I never looked at this girl again, nor did this girl propose to me: 'Do you want to go out with me?'. No one will ever propose me to sign The years and I will never ask to sign The years because I wanted to leave and I wanted to leave for the reasons I explained to you"
In 2012 he dedicated himself to theater, creating and performing the comedy The Personal Coach, scheduled from March to May at the Essalion Theater in Paris. Repetto returned to the world of music in 2012, participating as a backing vocalist on the single Sempre noi by Max Pezzali and J-Ax, as well as an actor in the related music video. Also in 2012 in some interviews, both Pezzali and Repetto talk about a possible future involvement of Mauro in common projects, not necessarily musical. In 2013 he wrote for Max Pezzali the lyrics Il presidente di tutto il mondo and Welcome Mr. President published in the album Max 20, in which he sings a part in French. In November of the same year, he returned to the stage, in a fleeting appearance, in the company of his friend Max, in the Milan stage of his tour[14]. He returns again alongside Max in July 2022, first on the occasion of the concert at the Comunale Stadium in Bibione and subsequently in the following two event dates at the San Siro Stadium in Milan and at Arena Suzuki. In 2023 his autobiography, written with Massimo Cotto, Non ho ucciso l'uomo ragno. Gli 883 e la ricerca della felicità, is released by Mondadori.
Personal life
Mauro Repetto's wife is a French designer named Joséphine. Together they have had two children and more. They also founded the design firm Manjiaca in 2004.
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