DANNY ANTONELLI

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 After a brief stay in Italy, he sailed from Naples to New York and arrived on the day that Nixon took 49 states. He worked as an usher in Philadelphia, as a dishwasher and maintenance man in Baltimore, and eventually made it back to Los Angeles where he earned a B.A. with honors in English at California State University, Northridge. Lisbon
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Just before John Lennon was killed, Antonelli left the United States, by ship once more, but this time from Montreal, and disembarked in Rotterdam. From there he drove down through France, across Spain to Lisbon, Portugal, where he spent two years, wrote Shoot the Albatross (an episodic novel) and ghosted a book for a Syrian businessman. Lisbon was also where he had his first hit record, O Rapaz do Cubo Magico sung by Lara Li (1982).

From Lisbon Danny went, in October of 1982, to Hamburg, where he has lived ever since. His second hit record La Valle Dell’ Eden sung by Nino de Angelo (1984) enabled him to clear his desk of a musical-literary project (Endless Avenues, 1989). Since then he has completed the Street Trilogy (Endless Avenues, Dead-End Streets, 1992; Talk Around The Block, 1995). He is the author of a book of short stories, Another Perfect Murder and other stories (Asylum Arts, 1991), the novellas Jax Opens House (1997), she & he (1998) and the performance piece Hard Copy (1998).

 

Danny is the presenter of the monthly radio program FREE WHEEL on FSK 93 FM in Hamburg, and the author of 102 episodes (to date) of Flex a continuing radio story, 31 episodes of the radio soap opera SUDS, the ultimate soap opera and 40 monthly radio plays performed by The Thursday Theater.

He released a CD entitled Transparent in 1998, a mixture of stories and primitive blues and Wirklichkeit | rattails in 2000, a live story performance with music.

Danny wrote the libretto for a chamber opera entitled diamond way which was performed in Dresden at the Kleine Szene of the Semper Oper and at the Opera Kiel (in the original English-language version) in 1999 and 2000. A comedy CD entitled Reality Check was released in 2003. The album She Left Me by Mustang Ranch his Americana/Country band was released in 2005, and the band performed live regularly in Hamburg at The Indra in 2006.

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