Goodbye to Stefano D’Orazio from the Poohs, he was 72 years old

Published on: 07/11/2020 12:19 AM

Stefano D’Orazio, one of the mainstays of the Pooh, died at the age of 72. Drums, voice and flute and also one of the authors of the lyrics, was born in 1948. To announce his death, his friend Bobo Craxi who posted a smiling photo of the musician on Twitter and the phrase “Stefano my friend. I also write from there. Hi! “.

The companions of the adventure of his life, the other members of Pooh, greet him on the Facebook page of one of them, Dodi Battaglia: “Stefano has left us.”

“Two hours ago … he had been hospitalized for a week and out of respect we had never talked about it … this afternoon, after days of fear, it seemed that the situation was improving … then, tonight, the terrible news. We lost a brother, life partner, witness of many important moments, but above all, of all of us, we have lost a good person, honest above all with himself. We pray for him. Hello Stefano, our friend forever … Roby, Dodi, Red, Riccardo “.

D’Orazio had grown closer to music and beloved drumming in the high school years, with the group The Kings, the first band followed by the new namesake components, The Sunshines. With them the debut as a lyricist signing ‘Ballano masculino’.

To make a living from music, D’Orazio declines art in every way, he also crosses paths with Carmelo Bene providing the soundtrack for his show ‘Osram’, then he joins the Italo group and his ensemble, which soon becomes’ I shipwrecked ‘. Opens two ‘Cantine Club’ in Rome and works for Rca, makes an appearance at Cinecittà, appearing in a dozen films including several spaghetti westerns and a film with Totò. Her wandering from one group to another, thanks to the speed with which the formations were formed and transformed in those years, stopped in 1971 when she joined Poohs, replacing Valeri Negrini who from that moment will only be the author. of the lyrics, gradually involving D’Orazio in this other side of music.

The story of the successes of the Poohs and of D’orazio’s successes with the Poohs, which make him stand out both his voice and his music and his words, runs until September 30, 2009 (he had started exactly on September 8 September 1971) when he left the band after a 38-date tour that ended in Milan. In 2015 he will rejoin the group on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary, for which he returns to write (Tante stories ago, Las cosas que me gusta, una song más). Numerous, between the two phases with the Pooh and after the second, the solo projects, including several forays into the world of musicals, among others the writing of the Italian texts of the musical ‘Mamma Mia’ at the request of Abba, ‘Aladin ‘written by him. , ‘Pinocchio’ of which he writes the letter, ‘W Zorro’, ‘Wanted Cinderella’