The beginnings: Evy and "I Pyranas"
Born in Paris and raised in a family of musicians, Albert Verrecchia started very young with his sister Evy (Évelyne) who was already recording. He got a band together for her in Paris, "Les Problèmes" and then joined "Vigon et les Lemons", a R&B ensemble with an awesome horn section, that eventually became Evy's backing group.
Then Evy had them all move to Italy, where she got some popularity with the single "L'Abito Non Fa il Beatnik" (1966) – Italian cover of Jackie Edwards' and "Spencer Davis Group"'s 1965 UK number one hit "Keep on Running" – and they started playing live in most of night clubs, both in Italy and in France as well as in North Africa, especially at the 'Titan Club' in Rome and at 'Bus Palladium' in Paris.
As "The Lemons", furthermore, Evy's backing group featuring Albert backed Chuck Berry in his French concerts and got credits on Evy's 3rd Italian single "Domani il Mondo Sarà nelle Nostre Mani". In that period Verrecchia also toured with Italian star Raffaella Carrà.
Later, in Rome, popular black jazz singer Rocky Roberts who had just split with "The Airdales" to go solo, chose the best musicians he could find in Paris to back him up, and one of the most influential Italian beat bands was born, "I Pyranas". Verrecchia played the Würlitzer Piano and a Hammond M3 with incorporated Leslie, while Alex Ligertwood was on vocals and André Ceccarelli on drums,. Later Robbie McIntosh (former drummer of Average White Band who later worked a lot with Santana) and Steve Ferrone also played in the group. Left Rocky Roberts, "I Pyranas" continued solo for several years with three successful albums released on RCA's ARC subsidiary label - "Tanti Successi per i Pyranas" (1968), "Motivi di Ieri, Successi di Oggi" (1969), "Giulietta e Romeo" (1970).
When they disbanded, Verrecchia began with a series of collaborations with many then up-and-coming artists, among these Alan Sorrenti – Albert produced his debut album "Aria" (1972) contributing also as keyboardist and arranger using the alias "Albert Prince" - and Renato Zero – Verrecchia played keyboards and did arrangements on his first album, "No! Mamma, no!" (1972) - before mostly dedicating himself to write and direct film soundtracks in the following years.
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