The DJ, esteemed musician and author of all the music for the comedy show Rai Due, had been battling a serious illness for some time.
Frank Carpenter’s
Mourning in the world of Neapolitan music: He is dead Frank Carpenter’s. The musician is best known to the general public as a DJ “Made in the South”, a comedy show by Rai Due, was 47 years old: he had been sick for some time, he had cancer. The death occurred on the night of September 29th. Frank Carpentieri, an esteemed musician and author of all the music for Made in Sud, has also collaborated throughout his career Alessandro Siani, Enzo Avitabile, Almamegretta, Clementino, Rocco Hunt, Subsonica and many other artists from the Neapolitan and national scene.
Carpentieri’s illness became known after a hospital stay at Monaldi Hospital – where he also received a video message from some Napoli players –. Some time ago, Carpentieri wrote about it on social media and said: “Thanks to all of you, I will fight until the end”:
Thank you to the Colli Hospitals, made up of many medical heroes, such as Doctor Ciro Battiloro del Monaldi, a luminary in oncology, who takes care of me, my physical and moral reference point for this fight.
Many thanks to Dr. Umberto di Serio, Dr. Andrea Petraio from Monaldi and Dr. Mario Guarino from Cto.
I want to thank you for how you work every day to save lives. Many thanks to the director Dr. Iervolino and to the director Dr. Giuseppe Fiorentino.
Who was Frank Carpentieri, the DJ who died last night?
Francesco Carpentieri, alias Frank Carpentieri, Neapolitan, born in 1976, was a writer of television theme songs and a disc jockey. It was the theme song of the same name for the comedy show “Made in Sud”. Carpentieri had a passion for rhythm from an early age, particularly the drums, which he began using at age 9, and began playing seriously at age 15.
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At the age of 18 he started going to clubs in 1995: Club Sea Wold with Jg Bros., then the experience in Ibiza, the friendship with Raiz from Almamegretta, in 1998 at Velvet, a very popular club in the shadow of Vesuvius. And the collaborations in the world of television and theater: Tribbù, on Raidue, music and lyrics of the theater show “Zazzarazà” at the Teatro Augusteo in Naples, “Made in Sud”, a small role in “The Abusive Prince” performed and directed by Alessandro Siani.