Artist's albums
Arrivi E Partenze
2001 · album
107 Elementi
1998 · album
Neffa E I Messaggeri Della Dopa (Remastered)
1996 · album
Neffa E I Messaggeri Della Dopa
1996 · album
Universo (feat. Neffa & Fabri Fibra)
2022 · single
La più bella del mondo (feat. Neffa)
2022 · single
Eclissi (feat. Neffa)
2022 · single
uNa DiReZioNe giUsTa
2021 · single
AmarAmmore
2021 · album
Aggio Perzo 'o Suonno (feat. Coez, prod. TY1)
2021 · single
Resistenza Edizione Speciale
2016 · album
O' Sarracino (feat. The Bluebeaters)
2016 · single
Sogni e nostalgia
2016 · single
Colpisci
2015 · single
Sigarette
2015 · single
Molto calmo
2013 · single
Sognando Contromano
2009 · album
Alla Fine Della Notte
2007 · album
Passione
2007 · single
Le Ore Piccole
2004 · single
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Biography
The man who goes by the name Neffa was born Giovanni Pellino in 1967 in Scafati, Italy, a small town near Naples, but he spent much of his youth in the northern cities of Turin and Bologna. He began his musical career as a drummer in various hardcore bands, one of which was the influential Negazione, using the name "Jeff," but later decided to switch to hip-hop. Pellino, who at this point was performing under the name Neffa, in honor of the Paraguayan Cremonese soccer star, hooked up with DJ Gruff and Deda to form Sangue Misto, a hip-hop group whose debut, 1994's SXM, is often considered the first great Italian rap album. In 1996 Neffa decided to try out his luck as a solo artist, and recorded the appropriately titled Neffa & I Messaggeri della Dopa in 1996 with a group of Italian and American artists collectively called I Messaggeri della Dopa. The musician stuck with stalwarts Gruff and Deda for his next record, 1998's 107 Elementi, followed the next year with the five-song EP Chicopisco. It was after this that Neffa decided to explore his other musical interests, namely soul, funk, and R&B, all of which are heard in his 2001 album, Arrivi e Partenze. Although he received a lot of criticism from the Italian rap community, the album did well commercially, and gained Neffa attention from a more mainstream audience. He followed up the success of Arrivi e Partenze two years later with I Molteplici Mondi di Giovanni, Il Cantante Neffa, and in 2006 his third album as a singer, Il Mondo Nuovo, was released in Italy. ~ Marisa Brown, Rovi