Angelo Conti "Sigaro" dies, guitarist of Banda Bassotti
- The Italian group Banda Bassotti has published on their social networks the message “He who fights will never be a slave” and the photograph of guitarist Angelo Conti “Sigaro” to make known the death of the 62-year-old musician. The group has had a close relationship with Euskal Herria.
Banda Bassotti was founded in Rome by construction workers’ musicians in the 1980s. Yes, yes, yes! And, through the styles of rock combat and words, showing a fighting communist line, he had a great echo in the left-wing environments of Italy. In 1992 and 1993, respectively, the Figli della stessa rabbia and Bella ciao albums were published with the Gridalo Forte label.
They crossed the borders of their country with the album Avanzo di cantiere published in 1994, which they recorded with the technician Kaki Arkarazo and which the label Esan Ozenki published in the Basque Country through the label Gora Herriak to disseminate international music.
The Bassotti Band was closely linked to the Negu gorriak group in the 1990s, played several concerts together, such as the one it gave at the Velódromo de San Sebastián in February 2001, after winning the trial for the complaint filed by Guardia Civil Enrique Rodríguez Galindo.
"Sigaro" has died after a brief illness, as read in the Italian media in recent hours. Rumors about his death began to spread and the news was confirmed from the image that the group has posted on Facebook.
