Giacomo Serreli

Born in Cagliari on July 30, 1955, professional journalist since 1983; retired since 2017.
He currently collaborates with the private television station Videolina for which he worked from 1976 to September 2017 at the TG editorial office.
One of his fields of greatest interest is music, especially with reference to the Sardinian scene.
To the latter he dedicated in particular between 2010 and 2013 a series of broadcasts (“Boghes e sonos” and “Sonora”) for the regional headquarters of RAI for which he had already collaborated between 1979 and 1983 with programs dedicated to pop, blues and American popular music.
For some years, from 1975 to the early 1980s, he carried out an intense activity as curator of music programs at the radio station “Radiolina”.
The result of this specific interest and study is also the publication of some volumes (“Sonos langanos” on the activity of Elena Ledda and Mauro Palmas (1998); “Sardegna rock” (1991,1994) then expanded in the two volumes of “Boghes e sonos” (2003) and in the three volumes of “Boghes e sonos, musica in Sardegna 1960-2020” (2020); “Maria Carta, voce e cuore di Sardegna” (2019); “Dropout music, itineraries for the world of a radio DJ” (2021).
Several of his essays appear in other publications; including “Launeddas” edited by Giampaolo Lallai (1997), “Sardinia” in “The Rough Guide to world music. Vol. 2” (2009), “Sardinia hot jazz” by Claudio Loi (2011), “Enciclopedia della musica sarda” by Marco Lutzu and Francesco Casu (2012), “Vintage” by Riccardo Frau (2020), “Prolagus” by Andrea Andrillo (2020), “Mala manera” by Malasorti (2020), “Un’intervista lunga una vita” by Leonardo Marras (2020).
He was among the promoters and artistic director of the “Ichnos” event (ten editions between 1993 and 2019 also in Milan and Havana).
Since its establishment he has been responsible for the scientific committee of the Maria Carta Foundation which has organized since 2003 the award dedicated to the artist who died in 1994 (also held in Milan, Rome, Gorizia, Cremona) and, since 2017, “Freemmos”, against the depopulation of the small towns of the island.