Nino Frassica & Los Plaggers Band, April 24 at ChorusLife in Bergamo. The show is organized by Ventidieci and Top Agency. ARTShow production. Nino Frassica is accompanied by Los Plaggers, a band made up of six formidable musicians; the name Plaggers is a fusion of Platters and plagiarism. The show is a highly original and engaging concert/cabaret musical journey. A big party, a musical memory operation with a repertoire consisting of more than one hundred revised and corrected songs, in which very famous songs, while retaining their own identity, are cut and stitched together in Frassica’s own way. Songs such as “Cacao Meravigliao,” “Grazie dei Fiori bis,” or such as “Viva la mamma col pomodoro” to which “Viva la pappa col pomodoro” will be added, but also “Mamma mia dammi cento lire” and old-time theme songs such as “Portobello” or the adverts; and again “Campagna” becomes “Voglio andare a vivere con i cugini di campagna,” and then “Siamo donne” which ends with “Donna a Surriento,” “Neri per sempre,” “Tuca tuca,” etc… The protagonist is also the audience who, swept away by the show’s fast-paced rhythm, while enjoying Frassica’s musical inventions, can sing and participate directly in the show thanks to medleys dedicated to the music of the ’60s and ’70s, tributes to Santana and Battisti, etc., until an atmosphere of complicity and understanding is created, thanks to the Sicilian artist’s inexhaustible comic vérve.
In 1985 Arbore involved him in the variety show “Quelli della notte” as Friar Antonino da Scasazza, organizer of an unlikely sweepstakes. This was followed by “Back to the Top” where he took on the role of a good presenter and staged a hilarious parody of the typical TV host. He later participated in “Fantastico,” “Domenica In,” “Bet that…?”, “I Cervelloni,” “Acqua calda,” “Colorado Café” and “Markette” hosted by Piero Chiambretti. In 1999 he began the adventure of the TV drama “Don Matteo” with Terence Hill, Flavio Insinna and later Simone Montedoro, and now with Raoul Bova. Nino plays the role of Carabinieri Marshal Nino Cecchini. In 2020 he is in the Channel 5 drama Fratelli Caputo, alongside Cesare Bocci. He took part in multiple editions of the program “The Best Years” hosted by Carlo Conti. He takes part in Sabina Guzzanti’s program aired on La7 entitled “Un due tre stella,” in which he reprises some of his characters. Since 2015, he has hosted “Programmone” on Rai Radio 2 and is a regular guest on Sunday evenings on “Che Tempo Che Fa” hosted by Fabio Fazio. In February 2016, she is a guest at the Sanremo Festival hosted by Carlo Conti with the double interview together with Gabriel Garko and interpreting A Mare Si Gioca dolceamara favola in music written by Tony Canto, she returns to the Sanremo Festival again in 2018. In 2023, he was one of the main characters in “LOL: Who’s Laughing is Out 3,” and also in 2023 he conceived and starred in the live TV show “Sconcert” airing on Prime Video. “PAOLA” is his latest book, following “VIPP – the whole Truth,” “Novella Bella,” “Sani Gesualdi Superstar” and “My Autobiography (70% true 80% false).”
