Ivan The Terrible

Ivan is introduced in the legendary parties of the swinging London ’70. Here he knows Cat Stevens, Marc Bolan, the photographer David Bailey and the famous painter Francis Bacon.
He comes back to Italy for the military duty, but he is immediately refused because of his “strangeness”..
He starts to hold the first concerts, in meetings and in alternative pop festivals which belonged to the underground area where Ivan moved his first steps. Right there he meets Nanni Ricordi, father and inventor of all the Italian singer-writers, who propose him to take part in ULTIMA SPIAGGIA, the only Italian firm of vanguard, with CRAMPS.
In 1975 he records his first LP, “UOAEI”, like the vocals of the alphabet, in which Ivan uses his voice in an experimental way, quite like an instrument, and a completely invented language.