Genre
Italo disco, synth-pop, and Italian rap. The album blends the semi-spoken, street-smart vocal delivery that had distinguished D'Angiò since "Ma quale idea" with the synthesizer-driven, dance-oriented production of early 1980s Italo disco, moving between comic-ironic tracks, urban narrative songs, and the title track — an Italian adaptation of "Chacun fait (c'qui lui plaît)" by the French duo Chagrin d'Amour.
Release
Released in 1983 by SGM Records, Milan. The French, Spanish and Portuguese editions were marketed with a different title: 'Evelonpappa, evelonmamma'
Production
Produced by Roberto Dané.
Reception
The album extended the commercial momentum of D'Angiò's preceding releases, with the title track sustaining his popularity in Italy and across much of Europe — particularly France, the Netherlands, and Spain — where his distinctive semi-spoken style had already built a loyal following. D'Angiò's work has enjoyed sustained cult status, particularly in the context of Italian and European italo disco, and is regularly cited as a forerunner of Italian hip-hop. In 2024, shortly before his death, D'Angiò performed "Ma quale idea" with the Italian pop-punk band Bnkr44 at the 74th Sanremo Festival, introducing his style to a new generation of listeners.
Pino d'Angiò
Giuseppe Chierchia (August 14, 1952, Pompei, Naples – July 6, 2024), known professionally as Pino d'Angiò, was an Italian singer-songwriter of Neapolitan heritage. He spent his childhood in the United States and Canada before returning to Italy, where he enrolled in medicine at the University of Siena and began singing in local bars to earn extra money. He met producer Ezio Leoni, who encouraged him to develop a style inspired by Fred Buscaglione's ironic persona and by French yé-yé artists, making his debut in 1979. His 1980 single "Ma quale idea" — arranged by jazz musician Enrico Intra — sold over two million copies internationally and reached number one in Spain, number two in the Netherlands, and charted across Belgium, Switzerland, and France, establishing him as one of the pioneers of Italian rap and Italo disco. In the final years of his life, he performed alongside the next generation of Italian pop artists before his death in July 2024 at the age of 71.
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