Eugenio Bennato founded the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare (New Company of Popular Song) in 1969, at that time the most important ethnic research and revival group in Southern Italy. He recorded six albums with the NCCP, and toured with great success in Italy and in the whole world. In 1976 he set up the ensemble Musicanova beginning an independent career as a composer with peculiar reference to the popular style. He released many successful albums, including Brigante Se More in 1979, a work which is still very popular with young audiences and street players . More titles from Musicanova are Garofano D Ammore , Quanno Turnammo A Nascere , Festa Festa and the Collection . In 1998 he founded the movement "Taranta Power", which in the wake of an extraordinary renewed interest in the ritual Tarantella rhythms among the younger public, advanced the proliferation of this dance through various creative forms (music, cinema, theatre). Taranta Power (1999) has become also a Cd : the musical synthesis of a movement that breaks with the past of italian popular music. On 17 February 2001, in his endless live activity he also took part in the Womad festival in Adelaide, his track Taranta Power was included in a compilation of this festival headed by Peter Gabriel. In 2005 Lucky Planets has released his digitally remastered entire back catalogue, as well as Da Lontano a collection of songs from Taranta Power with an experimental remixing in co-operation with the band Bisca . His new record is titled: Sponda Sud released in april 2007 and confirms the incredible talent of this brilliant and multicultured artist.