Draft:Luca Bignardi

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Luca Bignardi (born 24 April 1961 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian sound engineer, record producer, mixing engineer and arranger. He is regarded as one of the leading sound engineers in Italian pop music, with a career spanning over four decades and collaborations with major Italian and international artists.^[1] He has won three Latin Grammy Awards and one Grammy Award, all for his work with Laura Pausini,^[2] and has received additional nominations at the Latin Grammy Awards and the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan.

Born in Bologna on 24 April 1961, Bignardi began playing guitar at the age of twelve and performed in rock bands in his youth. In 1979 he made his first professional recording at Fonoprint studios in Bologna, launching his career as a sound engineer.^[3]

In the early 1980s, while working at Fonoprint, he developed expertise in synthesizer programming — writing his own software to manage the Yamaha DX7 via MIDI — adding the role of programmer to that of recording engineer. During this period he established a lasting collaboration with producer Celso Valli, a central figure in Italian and international pop music of the era.^[4]

In 1987 he began working with producer Roberto Costa, which led to collaborations with Spanish artists such as Ana Belén and Víctor Manuel. From the 1990s onward his work expanded internationally, with projects for Eros Ramazzotti, Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini and Vasco Rossi, among others.^[5]

In 2008 he opened Big's Recording Studio in Ozzano dell'Emilia, near Bologna, acoustically designed by Christopher Clifford and Josif Vezzoli of JVAcoustic, featuring a control room, live recording room and live performance area.^[4]

In the early 2010s he relocated to China, where he began a long-term collaboration with headphone brand 1MORE as head of audio tuning. He has also worked with other consumer electronics brands including Xiaomi, ASUS, Philips and boAt. Since 2016 he has been based primarily in Shenzhen.^[6]

Bignardi began his career in 1979 at Fonoprint studios in Bologna, one of Italy's leading recording facilities. In his early years he worked on numerous Italian dance music productions, a genre particularly active in the Bologna area at the time. His early credits include albums by Ivan Graziani, Matia Bazar and Lucio Dalla. For Dalla he handled Yamaha synthesizer programming on the album Bugie (1986).^[3]

His first collaborations with Eros Ramazzotti date to 1985, with the single Una Storia Importante, and 1986, with Adesso Tu. In the same period he worked as engineer and programmer on Salamandra (1986) by Miguel Bosé, produced by Celso Valli and distributed worldwide by WEA.^[5] Through his collaboration with producer Roberto Costa he worked with Spanish artists Ana Belén (Rosa de Amor y Fuego, 1989) and Víctor Manuel (Que te Puedo Dar, 1988), both recorded at Fonoprint.

During the 1990s his work with Eros Ramazzotti intensified. He handled recording, mixing, mastering and programming on Dove c'è musica (1996), from which the single Più bella cosa became one of the artist's biggest international hits. The album sold over seven million copies worldwide.^[5] In 2003 he worked as programmer and sound engineer on Eros Ramazzotti's album 9.^[7] In the same period he worked with Andrea Bocelli on Romanza (1996), contributing to the tenor's international breakthrough.

In 1998 Bignardi worked as recording engineer, mixer and programmer on Canzoni per me by Vasco Rossi, documented by the Italian magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni in May of that year.^[8] The album sold over one million copies at a time of general contraction in the Italian recorded music market.

His collaboration with Laura Pausini represents the most decorated chapter of Bignardi's career. The album Entre Tú y Mil Mares (2000), on which he handled recording, mixing and programming, received a nomination at the 2nd Latin Grammy Awards (September 2001) in the category Best Engineered Album — the first Latin Grammy nomination for an Italian sound engineer.^[9] The Italian newspaper Il Resto del Carlino described him at the time as "the first Italian to be nominated for the Grammy Awards" in the Latin category.^[10]

The album Escucha (2004) won the 6th Latin Grammy Award (2005) for Best Female Pop Vocal Album^[11] and the 48th Grammy Award (2006) for Best Latin Pop Album.^[12] Yo Canto (2006), a covers album of Italian pop classics on which Bignardi contributed as engineer on five tracks, debuted at number one on the Italian albums chart and remained there for eight consecutive weeks, winning the 8th Latin Grammy Award (2007).^[13] Primavera Anticipada (2008) won the 10th Latin Grammy Award (2009), both in the Best Female Pop Vocal Album category.^[14]

His mix of Vía Dalma II (2011) by Sergio Dalma earned a nomination at the 13th Latin Grammy Awards (2012) in the category Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.^[15]

His mix of the orchestral album 鍾興民作品集 by Taiwanese composer Zhong Xingmin earned a nomination at the 29th Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan (2018), organized by the Bureau for Audiovisual and Music Industry Development of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China.

• 1988 — Dalla Morandi concert at the Teatro Greco in Syracuse, broadcast live on Rai 1 (2 October 1988); appeared on stage as keyboardist and programmer.^[16][17]
• 1992 — Vota La Voce, 20th edition, Teatro Romano di Fiesole, Canale 5 (18 September 1992); appeared on stage as keyboardist with Zucchero.^[18]
• 2007 — La situazione di mia sorella non è buona, television special by Adriano Celentano, Rai 1 (26 November 2007); appeared as himself.^[19]

• Official website
• Luca Bignardi at AllMusic
• Luca Bignardi — Artist Profile at Latin Recording Academy
• Luca Bignardi at Discogs
• A Little Light on Luca Bignardi and Tuning at 1MORE
• Luca Bignardi — Digisound Studio at ADAM Audio

Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Italian sound engineers Category:Italian record producers Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Latin Grammy Award winners Category:People from Bologna Category:Sound engineers