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Notti, Guai E Libertà
''Notti, guai e libertà'' (Italian for ''Nights, Trouble and Freedom'') is a studio album by Italian singer Patty Pravo, released in 1998 by Sony Music. Overview Most of the material on the album was written specially for Patty by some of the most renowned Italian songwriters, such as Franco Battiato, Ivano Fossati, Francesco Guccini, and Enrico Ruggeri, as well as young artists Alex Baroni and Rosario Di Bella. "Les Etrangers" ( French for "Strangers") is a cover of "Merci bon Dieu", written by Frantz Casseus and first released by Harry Belafonte on his 1957 album '' An Evening with Belafonte''. An instrumental version of the song, "Des Etrangers", is included as a secret recording in track 10, following the final song and a one-minute silence. Only on vinyl editions of the album are the two recordings billed separately. "Les Etrangers" was released as the lead single accompanied by a music video filmed in a mine located in Cagliari, Sardinia. The song was performed at the Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patty Pravo
Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli on 9 April 1948) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the following decade, she experienced a career revival in the late 1990s and reinstated her position on Italian music charts. Her most popular songs include "La bambola" (1968), " Pazza idea" (1973), " Pensiero stupendo" (1978) and " ...E dimmi che non vuoi morire" (1997). She scored fourteen top 10 albums (including three number ones) and fourteen top 10 singles (including two number ones) in her native Italy. Pravo participated at the Sanremo Music Festival ten times, most recently in 2019, and has won three critics' awards at the festival. She also performed twelve times at the Festivalbar. Biography 1960s and 1970s Strambelli studied at the conservatory institute Benedetto Marcello and was acquainted with American poet Ezra Pound and the future ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, activist, and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-American pop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album '' Calypso'' (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte is best known for his recordings of "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature "Day-O" lyric, " Jump in the Line", and " Jamaica Farewell". He has recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He has also starred in several films, including ''Carmen Jones'' (1954), '' Island in the Sun'' (1957), and ''Odds Against Tomorrow'' (1959). Belafonte considered the actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson a mentor, and was a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. As he later recalled, "Paul Robes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manlio Sgalambro
Manlio Sgalambro (; 9 December 1924 – 6 March 2014) was an Italian philosopher and writer, born in Lentini. Biography Philosophical production Sgalambro did not have certificates or degrees as business cards: how he became a writer of philosophy – whose books are translated into French, German and Spanish – is a mystery that he was not able to explain. Beginning In 1945 he worked jointly with the review ''Prisma'' (directed by Leonardo Grassi): the first writing is ''Paralipomeni all'irrazionalismo''. In 1947 he matriculated at the University of Catania: From 1959, along with Sebastiano Addamo, he wrote for the magazine ''Incidenze'' (founded by Antonio Corsano). His first article for the journal was ''Crepuscolo e notte'' (reprinted in 2011). Meanwhile he wrote for the journal ''Tempo presente'' (directed by Nicola Chiaromonte and Ignazio Silone). In 1963, at the age of 39, he got married. The income from citrus orchards inherited from his father was no longer su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Bergonzi
Bruno may refer to: People and fictional characters *Bruno (name), including lists of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880) * Bruno the Great (925–965), Archbishop of Cologne, Duke of Lotharingia and saint * Bruno (bishop of Verden) (920–976), German Roman Catholic bishop * Pope Gregory V (c. 972–999), born Bruno of Carinthia * Bruno of Querfurt (c. 974–1009), Christian missionary bishop, martyr and saint * Bruno of Augsburg (c. 992–1029), Bishop of Augsburg * Bruno (bishop of Würzburg) (1005–1045), German Roman Catholic bishop * Pope Leo IX (1002–1054), born Bruno of Egisheim-Dagsburg * Bruno II (1024–1057), Frisian count or margrave * Bruno the Saxon (fl. 2nd half of the 11th century), historian * Saint Bruno of Cologne (d. 1101), founder of the Carthusians * Bruno (bishop of Segni) (c. 1045–1123), Italian Roman Catholic bishop and saint * Bruno (archbishop of Trier) (died 1124), German Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and "L'anno che verrà" (1979). Beginnings Dalla was born in Bologna, Italy. He began to play the clarinet at an early age, in a jazz band in Bologna, and became a member of a local jazz band called Rheno Dixieland Band, together with future film director Pupi Avati. Avati said that he decided to leave the band after feeling overwhelmed by Dalla's talent. He also acknowledged that his film, ''Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?'' (2005), was inspired by his friendship with Dalla. In the 1960s the band participated in the first Jazz Festival at Antibes, France. The Rheno Dixieland Band won the first prize in the traditional jazz band category and was noticed by a Roman band called Second Roman New Orleans Jazz Band, with whom Dalla recorded his fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Papi
Enrico Papi (born 3 June 1965) is an Italian television presenter. Tv Rai * '' Fantastico bis'' (Rai 1, 1988-1990) * '' Unomattina'' (Rai 1, 1990-1994) * '' La Banda dello Zecchino'' (Rai 1, 1992) * '' Unomattina Estate'' (Rai 1, 1992-1993) * '' Fatti e misfatti'' (Rai 1, 1993) * '' Chiacchiere'' (Rai 1, 1995) * '' Chiacchiere di Enrico Papi'' (Rai 1, 1995-1996) * '' 51º Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo'' (Rai 1, 2001) * '' Dopo il Festival tutti da me'' (Rai 1, 2001) Mediaset * '' Papi quotidiani'' ( Canale 5, 1996) * '' Tutti in piazza'' (Canale 5, 1996) * '' Verissimo'' (Canale 5, 1996-1997) * '' Edizione straordinaria'' (Italia 1, 1997) * ''Sarabanda'' (Italia 1, 1997-2004, 2017) * ''Buona Domenica'' (Canale 5, 1997-1998) * '' Regalo di Natale'' (Italia 1, 1997) * '' Sapore d'estate'' (Canale 5, 1998) * '' Predizioni'' (Italia 1, 1999) * '' Beato tra le donne'' (Canale 5, 1999) * '' Matricole'' (Italia 1, 2001) * '' Il traditore'' (Italia 1, 2001) * '' Ane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Sorrisi E Canzoni
''TV Sorrisi e Canzoni'' (''TV Smiles and Songs'') is an Italian weekly listings magazine published in Segrate, Italy. History and profile ''TV Sorrisi e Canzoni'' was established in 1952. Based in Segrate, Milan, the magazine is published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the biggest Italian publishing company. The magazine is published on a weekly basis. ''TV Sorrisi e Canzoni'' had a circulation of 1,836,355 copies in 1984. The circulation of magazine rose to 1,997,809 copies from September 1993 to August 1994. Founded in 1952 by Agostino Campi for Editoriale Campi, it was one of top 50 best-selling television magazines worldwide with a circulation of 1,622,000 copies in 2001. Its circulation was 1,381,000 copies in 2004, making it the best-selling magazine in Italy. It was the best-selling television magazine in Italy in 2007 with a circulation of 1,086,414 copies. The magazine had a circulation of 883,220 copies in 2010. See also * List of magazines in Italy * ''Telegatto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corriere Della Sera
The ''Corriere della Sera'' (; en, "Evening Courier") is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015. First published on 5 March 1876, ''Corriere della Sera'' is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remained unchanged since its first edition in 1876. It reached a circulation of over 1 million under editor and co-owner Luigi Albertini, between 1900 and 1925. He was a strong opponent of socialism, of clericalism, and of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti who was willing to compromise with those forces. Albertini's opposition to the Fascist regime forced the other co-owners to oust him in 1925. Today its main competitors are Rome's ''la Repubblica'' and Turin's '' La Stampa''. History and profile ''Corriere della Sera'' was first published on Sunday 5 March 1876 by Eugenio Torelli Viollier. In 1899 the paper began to offer a weekly illustrated supplement, ''La D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new. Most commonly, remixes are a subset of audio mixing in music and song recordings. Songs may be remixed for a large variety of reasons: * to adapt or revise a song for radio or nightclub play * to create a stereo or surround sound version of a song where none was previously available * to improve the fidelity of an older song for which the original master has been lost or degraded * to alter a song to suit a specific music genre or radio format * to use some of the original song's materials in a new context, allowing the original song to reach a different audience * to alter a song for artistic purposes * to provide additional version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivalbar
The Festivalbar was an Italian singing competition that took place in the most important Italian squares during summer, such as the Piazza del Duomo, Catania or Piazza Bra, Verona. The first edition took place in 1964 and was broadcast by RAI. The competition was held throughout the summer and the final round always took place at the Arena in Verona after 3-4 events in various cities of Italy. History Originally, the Festivalbar was a competition made with data from jukeboxes in Italian bars, so the competition was a one evening event transmitted by RAI. From 1983, Mediaset started to transmit this programme and the Festivalbar would change its location every week. The original promoter of the Festivalbar was Vittorio Salvetti. After his death in 1998, his son Andrea took the reins. Winning songs *1964: Bobby Solo - "Credi a me" *1965: Petula Clark - "Ciao ciao" *1966: Caterina Caselli - "Perdono" *1967: Rocky Roberts - "Stasera mi butto" *1968: Adamo - "Affida una la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the 20 regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and immediately south of the French island of Corsica. It is one of the five Italian regions with some degree of domestic autonomy being granted by a special statute. Its official name, Autonomous Region of Sardinia, is bilingual in Italian and Sardinian: / . It is divided into four provinces and a metropolitan city. The capital of the region of Sardinia — and its largest city — is Cagliari. Sardinia's indigenous language and Algherese Catalan are referred to by both the regional and national law as two of Italy's twelve officially recognized linguistic minorities, albeit gravely endangered, while the regional law provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitants, while its metropolitan city (including Cagliari and 16 other nearby municipalities) has more than 431,000 inhabitants. According to Eurostat, the population of the Functional urban area, the commuting zone of Cagliari, rises to 476,975. Cagliari is the 26th largest city in Italy and the largest city on the island of Sardinia. An ancient city with a long history, Cagliari has seen the rule of several civilisations. Under the buildings of the modern city there is a continuous stratification attesting to human settlement over the course of some five thousand years, from the Neolithic to today. Historical sites include the prehistoric Domus de Janas, very damaged by cave activity, a large Carthaginian era necropolis, a Roman era amphith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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