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Nicola Di Bari
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music. Life and career Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children from a farming family.''B & N'', Volume 32, Edizioni 7–12. Società Gestione Editoriali, 1971. p. 90. He gave up his accountancy studies to work in Rome, and after a short stay in Rome he moved to Milan. In 1962, in Cologno Monzese, he won a song contest with a song of which he was also the author, "Piano pianino". In 1964 he achieved his first commercial success with the song "Amore ritorna a casa". Between 1965 and 1967 he entered the competition at three editions of the Sanremo Music Festival, while coupled with Gene Pitney. In 1970 Di Bari obtained even greater commercial and critical success with the song " La prima cosa bella", which ranked second at the Sanremo Music Festival and first on the Italian hit charts. In 1971 he won the Sanremo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nada (Italian Singer)
Nada (born Nada Malanima November 17, 1953 in Gabbro ( it), Rosignano Marittimo, Province of Livorno) is an Italian singer. She was nicknamed ''Il pulcino del Gabbro'' (''the little chick of Gabbro''). Career Nada's début occurred at the age of fifteen at the 1969 Sanremo Music Festival with the song '' Ma che freddo fa'', which gave her a sudden success, also with the Spanish language version ''Hace frío ya''. The following year she participated in the festival again, singing ''Pa' diglielo a ma together with Ron. She also took part in Canzonissima, a popular TV programme, with ''Che male fa la gelosia''. In 1971 she won the Sanremo Music Festival with '' Il cuore è uno zingaro'', together with Nicola Di Bari, obtaining notable international success. In Sanremo again in 1972 she was third with ''Il re di denari''. Later she returned to Sanremo in 1987 (''Bolero''), in 1999 (''Guardami negli occhi'') and in 2007 (''Luna in piena''). In 1983 she was voted "singer of the year" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viale Della Canzone
''Viale della canzone'' is a 1965 Italian "musicarello" film directed and written by Tullio Piacentini. Cast *Marisa Solinas *Bobby Solo * Roby Ferrante *Edoardo Vianello *Peppino Di Capri *Los Marcellos Ferial *Ricky Gianco *Sacha Distel *Roberto Murolo *Pino Donaggio * Marino Marini *Nico Fidenco *Mario Zelinotti *Nicola Di Bari *Jimmy Fontana *Vanna Brosio Vanna Brosio (18 April 1943 – 19 June 2010) was an Italian singer, television personality and journalist. Life and career Born Giovanna Brosio in Turin, the daughter of a well-known antiquarian and the niece of the former NATO Secretary Gen ... External links * 1965 films 1960s Italian-language films 1965 musical films Italian musical films 1960s Italian films Musicarelli {{musical-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'amore è Un Attimo
The Eurovision Song Contest 1971 was the 16th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Dublin, Ireland, following the country's victory at the with the song "All Kinds of Everything" by Dana. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (RTÉ), the contest was held at the Gaiety Theatre on 3 April 1971, and was hosted by Irish television presenter Bernadette Ní Ghallchóir. Eighteen countries participated in the contest, equalling the record of the 1965 and 1966 editions. Austria returned after their two-year absence, while Finland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden all returned after having boycotted the competition the previous year. On the other hand, Malta competed for the first time. The winner was Monaco with the song "Un banc, un arbre, une rue", performed by Séverine, written by Yves Dessca, and composed by Jean-Pierre Bourtayre. This was Monaco's first and only victory in the contest. The song was performed by a French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peppino Di Capri
Peppino di Capri (born Giuseppe Faiella on 27 July 1939) is an Italian popular music singer, songwriter and pianist, successful in Italy and Europe. His international hits include "St. Tropez Twist", "Daniela", "Torna piccina", "Roberta", "Melancolie", "Freva", "L'ultimo romantico", "Un grande amore e niente più", "Non lo faccio più", "Nun è peccato", and "Champagne". Biography Peppino began singing and playing the piano at age 4, entertaining the American army troops stationed on the island of Capri with a repertoire of American standards. After 6 years of classical studies and playing at nightclubs around Capri, Peppino and his group The Rockers released their first single, with the songs "Malattia" ("Sickness") and "Nun è Peccato" ("It's not a sin"), sung in Neapolitan in 1958. The single was an instant hit, and Peppino spent most of the following year touring. A string of hit singles soon followed, usually alternating between Italian versions of American rock'n'roll a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Ranieri
Massimo Ranieri (born Giovanni Calone on 3 May 1951) is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and director. Biography Early life Ranieri was born in Naples ( at Santa Lucia), the fifth of eight children in the family. When he was 10, young Giovanni would sing at restaurants, wedding receptions, etc. He was discovered by a music producer about four years later and was flown to New York to record an EP under the name of Gianni Rock. Singing career Ranieri recorded four songs in 1964: Tanti auguri signora, Se mi aspetti stasera, Non chiudere la porta, and La Prima Volta. None of the records were successful, primarily because young Gianni's voice was changing. Two years later, he would re-emerge under his new stage name, Massimo Ranieri. In 1966, he made his TV debut singing "Bene Mio". A year later, he made another TV appearance singing, "Pietà per chi ti ama". In 1968, he recorded two more songs: "Da Bambino", Ma L'amore cos'è" and "Preghiera". It was not until 1969 whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Mori
Claudia Mori (born Claudia Moroni, Rome, 12 February 1944), is an Italian producer, former actress and former singer, and wife of the singer Adriano Celentano. Biography 1960s She began her career in show business as an actress playing in musicals, but also in major films such as '' Rocco e i suoi fratelli'' (''Rocco and His Brothers'') by Luchino Visconti and ''Sodoma e Gomorra'' (''Sodom and Gomorrah'') by Robert Aldrich. In 1963, she met Adriano Celentano on the film set of ''Uno strano tipo'' ("A Strange Type"). Celentano left his girlfriend Milena Cantù, and in 1964 he married Claudia, secretly in the night, at the church of San Francesco in Grosseto. She bore three children: Rosita (1965), Giacomo (1966) and Rosalinda (1968). In 1964, she acted in ''Super rapina a Milano'' ("The Great Robbery in Milan"), the first film directed by Celentano. Since then her acting career suffered a setback, in favor of that as singer, in 1964, in fact, with ''Non guardarmi'' ("Do Not Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed "''il Molleggiato''" (the springy one) because of his dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical success. Often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in collaboration with others. Due to his prolific career, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the pillars of Italian music. Celentano is recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business, and is credited for having introduced rock and roll to Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 films, mostly comedies. Early life Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Cristoforo Gluck, and this address later became the subject of the famous song " Il ragazzo della via Gluck" ("The boy from Gluck Street"). His parents were from Foggia, in Apulia, and had moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinando Baldi
Ferdinando Baldi (19 May 1917 – 12 September 2007) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Biography Baldi was born in Cava de' Tirreni, Salerno, on 19 May 1917. His early film work began in Italy in the early 1950s with films such as ''Il Prezzo dell'Onore''. He directed Orson Welles in the films ''David and Goliath'' and ''The Tartars''. Baldi died in Italy on 12 September 2007. Selected filmography *''Il prezzo dell'onore'' (1952) *''Assi alla ribalta'' (1954) *''David and Goliath'' (1960) *''Duel of Champions'' (1961) *''La spada del Cid'' (1962) * ''Taras Bulba, the Cossack'' (1962) *''Il figlio di Cleopatra '' (1964) *''Sfida al re di Castiglia'' (1964) *'' Suicide Mission to Singapore'' (1966) *''All'ombra delle aquile'' (1966) *''Texas, Adios'' (1966) *'' Massacre in the Black Forest'' (1967) *'' Io non protesto, io amo'' (1967) *'' Rita of the West '' (1967) *''Hate Thy Neighbor'' (1968) *''Django, Prepare a Coffin'' (1968) *''The Forgotten Pistolero'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preparati La Bara!
''Django, Prepare a Coffin'' ( it, Preparati la bara!, “Prepare the Coffin!”), alternatively titled ''Viva Django'', is a 1968 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Ferdinando Baldi. The film stars Terence Hill in the title role, which was previously played by Franco Nero in Sergio Corbucci's original film''.'' ''Django, Prepare a Coffin'' is unique among the plethora of films which capitalized on Corbucci's in that it is not only a semi-official, legitimate follow-up, but was also originally intended to star Nero. A piece from the film's score, "Last Man Standing", was sampled in the song "Crazy" by American soul duo Gnarls Barkley. The film's title song, "You'd Better Smile", is performed by Nicola Di Bari. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Spaghetti Western at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Cast *Terence Hill as Django *Horst Frank as David Barry *George Eastman as Lucas *José Torrès as Garcia Ibanez *Bruna Simionato (as Barbara Simon) as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (3 April 1922 – 5 October 2013) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Biography Born in Rome, before World War II Lizzani worked as a scenarist on such films as Roberto Rossellini's ''Germany Year Zero'', Alberto Lattuada's '' The Mill on the Po'' (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' ''Bitter Rice'' (1949), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story. After directing documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama ''Achtung! Banditi!'' (1951). Respected for his awarded drama '' Chronicle of Poor Lovers'' (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as '' The Violent Four'' (1968) and '' Crazy Joe'' (1974) or crime-comedy ''Roma Bene'' (1971). His film ''L'oro di Roma'' (1961) examined events around the final deportation of the Jews of Rome and the Roman roundup, ''grande razzia'', of October 1943. For his 1968 film ''Bandits in Milan'' he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torino Nera
''Black Turin'' ( it, Torino nera) is a 1972 crime film directed by Carlo Lizzani. The film received mixed reviews, but was commercially successful. Cast * Bud Spencer: Rosario Rao * Françoise Fabian: Lucia Rao * Marcel Bozzuffi: Fridda * Guido Leontini: Trotta * Vittorio Duse: Camarata * Nicola Di Bari: Mancuso * Andrea Balestri: Raffaele Rao * Domenico Santoro: Mino Rao * Saro Urzì: Jaco * Gigi Ballista: Marinotti * Maria Baxa: Nascarella Release ''Black Turin'' was released in Italy as ''Torino nera'' on 25 September 1972 where it was distributed by MGM. The film grossed a total of 858,820,000 Italian lire The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually f ... domestically. It was released in Paris on 28 November 1973 under the title ''La vengeance du sicilien''. Notes Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Paolella
Domenico Paolella (18 October 1915 - 7 October 2002) was an Italian director, screenwriter and journalist. Born in Foggia, between 1933 and 1935 Paolella won several contests for amateur directors; in the same years he started working as a journalist for several newspapers and magazines. In 1937 he entered the film industry as assistant of Carmine Gallone for ''Scipio the African'', and the following year made his debut as a director of short films. During the war he was correspondent from the Soviet front. From 1946 to 1951 he was artistic director and chief editor of the INCOM newsreel production company. In 1939 Paolella directed his first feature film, ''The Last of the Road''. In subsequent years, he first directed a series of musical films of great success produced by Carlo Infascelli, then he specialized in the comic genre. Paolella directed his last film in 1979, and briefly rejoined the industry in the early nineties when he collaborated on several screenplays for film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
