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Bino (singer)
Bino (born Benedetto Arico; * 24 April 1953 in Contessa Entellina; † 19 October 2010 in Contessa Entellina) was an Italian pop singer. Early life and career Bino first studied architecture in order to take over his father's company. He returned to Italy and came back to Germany in 1975 as a musician, first to Schopfheim in the Black Forest. In nearby Bad Säckingen he became a member of the existing group "I Figli Di Yuma" with which he toured the region and through Switzerland. Then he came to Oldenburg, where he once worked as an ice cream vendor, sometimes as a singer at festivals and on to Hamburg, where producer Rainer Felsen from Pino Music first took notice of him. In 1978, working with Drafi Deutscher and Mike Mareen, Bino composed and recorded '' Mama Leone''. Bino landed his biggest success in 1978 with the song ''Mama Leone'', with music composed by Drafi Deutscher and Mike Mareen. The song was recorded in an Italian with lyrics by Bino as well as a German version. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contessa Entellina
Contessa Entellina ( sq, Kuntisa) is a small ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Palermo, in Sicily, southern Italy. Is located in the "Valle del Belìce" at above sea level in the mountains called ''Brinjat'', is situated 80 km from Palermo. The country, along with Piana degli Albanesi and Santa Cristina Gela, is among the three ethnic communities of Arbëreshë of Sicily, who still speak Albanian, carefully preserve the Orthodox rite, the Albanian costumes, musical and gastronomic traditions of the ancient Albania. History The foundation is attributed to about 1450 on the ruins of a remote farmhouse seniority, the "Comitissa", but the chapter officers, the granting of fiefs, were built in 1520, when he start the rebuilding, upgrading and restocking of Albanians from Albania and subsequently also by the southern Morea, from Albanian communities where they lived from 1300. In ancient times it was near them the ancient Elymian city of ''Entella'', in fact, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |