New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Hard Rock International) Luciano Ligabue, Italian singer-songwriter, film director and writer, made a special appearance at Hard Rock Cafe New York to donate his Fender Telecaster White guitar to Hard Rock International's world famous memorabilia collection. The guitar was played by
Ligabue during his recent New York performance at Terminal 5 as part of his "Mondovisione Tour - Mondo 2014" and now joins Hard Rock's one-of-a-kind collection of more than 73,000 original pieces of artist memorabilia.
In conjunction with his memorabilia donation,
Ligabue will also kickoff the North American leg of his tour and perform in the United States for the first time in his career. Tour stops include Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 22; DNA Lounge in San Francisco on Friday, October 24; and Grand Central in Miami on Sunday, October 26. As always, Mr. "LIGA" will be accompanied on stage by the "Group," his band which includes Federico "Fede" Poggipollini (guitar), Niccolo Bossini (guitar),
Luciano Luisi (keyboards and programming), Michael Urbano (drums) and
David Pezzin (bass).
"As a global music brand, we are honored to partner with international icon Ligabue," said Marc Carey, Marketing
Director for Hard Rock International. "Ligabue's guitar is a great addition to our collection and exemplifies the diverse group of artists represented on our walls."
For additional information, please visit www.hardrock.com.
About Ligabue
Ligabue is now considered the greatest rock performer in Italy. Singer, song-writer, film director, writer, father of two sons.
Luciano Ligabue represents the most renowned and credible personification of rock music in Italy in the latest quarter of the century.
Born in Correggio in 1960, he made his official debut when he was thirty years old, with the album Ligabue, making one of the most successful debuts in the history of the Italian recording industry and proving himself worthy since the beginning thanks to a formula capable of combining a straightforwardly rock attitude with the narrative finesse of a singer-songwriter.
280.000 tickets have been sold in just two concerts in Campovolo (2005 and 2011).
Ligabue holds the European record for tickets sold in just one gig by a single artist: 165.264 (Official SIAE/BIEM certified with platinum ticket).
He is also the first in the Pollstar's world chart for the number of tickets sold in just one concert in the year 2005.
