Oro Incenso & Birra
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| Studio album by Zucchero | ||||
| Released | 13 June 1989 | |||
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Real World Studios, Bath, England Ardent Studios, Memphis, USA The Power Station, New York Umbi Medicina Blanche Studio, Modena, Italy |
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| Genre | Rock, Blues | |||
| Length | 42:16 | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Corrado Rustici | |||
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Oro Incenso & Birra (Gold, Frankincense & Beer) is the fifth studio album released by the Italian singer-songwriter Zucchero Fornaciari on 13 June 1989. As with his previous album Blue's, the album is credited to "Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari". Its title represents a pun on "oro incenso e mirra", the Italian for "gold, frankincense and myrrh", with mirra being replaced by birra, meaning beer.
It has sold an estimated 1.84 million copies in Italy and 2.5 million copies in Europe up to 1995, becoming the best-selling album internationally by an Italian until it was overtaken by Andrea Bocelli's album Romanza in 1997. As of 2015 it has reported sales of over 8 million copies.Rolling Stone Italia included the album in its list of "the 100 best Italian music albums of all time".. Now this album has sold over 8 million copies in the world.
This was the last Zucchero album to be sung entirely in Italian: subsequent albums have been released in international versions with English lyrics on some tracks. The guitar solo in "A Wonderful World" was written and performed by Eric Clapton, a close friend of Zucchero's.
The Italian singer-songwriter Francesco de Gregori wrote the lyrics for the song "Diamante", one of Zucchero's biggest hits to date. On the album credits "Diamante" is dedicated to Diamante Arduini Fornaciari, Zucchero's grandmother (nonna). The song was included in the Baywatch episode "Tequila Bay" in Season 3.
The song "Libera L'Amore" was composed by Ennio Morricone.
The album also features guest performances by Clarence Clemons, Rufus Thomas, James Taylor and Jimmy Smith.
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