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Tozzi
Tozzi is an Italian surname. It may refer to: * Antonio Tozzi (1736-1812), Italian composer * Bruno Tozzi (1656-1743), Italian monk and botanist * Claudio Tozzi (b. 1944), Brazilian artist * Fausto Tozzi (1921–1978), Italian film actor and screenwriter * Federigo Tozzi (1883-1920), Italian writer * Gianni Tozzi (born 1962), Italian former athlete * Gianpiero Tozzi (b. 1994), Italian footballer * Giorgio Tozzi (1923-2011), American opera singer * Humberto Tozzi (1934–1980), Brazilian international footballer * Jim Tozzi (b. 1938), American lobbyist * Jim Tozzi (PFFR) (b. 1967), American artist, commercial director, producer, voice actor, and musician * John T. Tozzi, former rear admiral in the United States Coast Guard * Mario Tozzi (1895–1979), Italian painter * Nicoletta Tozzi (1966), former Italian female middle-distance runner * Ricardo Tozzi (b. 1975), Brazilian actor * Roberto Tozzi (b. 1958), Italian sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres * Romano Tozzi Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Tozzi
Umberto Antonio Tozzi (; born 4 March 1952) is an Italian pop and rock singer and composer. Over the course of his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally, and his biggest international hits are: "Stella Stai", " Gloria", " Tu" and "Ti Amo". Biography Tozzi was born on 4 March 1952 in Turin, Italy. In 1968, at the age of 16, Umberto Tozzi joined 'Off Sound', one of the many groups that performed in small venues around Turin. In Milan, he met Adriano Pappalardo, with whom he formed a 13-piece band and began a large-scale Italian tour. In 1974 Tozzi had his first success as a songwriter, with the song "Un Corpo, un'anima" ("One Body, One Soul"), co-written with Damiano Dattoli and performed by Wess and Dori Ghezzi. It appeared on ''Canzonissima'', an Italian music programme running from 1956 to 1974. In 1976, he released his first album, ''Donna Amante Mia'' ("Woman, My Lover"), which contained the single "Io Camminerò" ("I Will Walk") ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Tozzi
Giorgio Tozzi (January 8, 1923 – May 30, 2011) was an American operatic bass. He was a mainstay for many years with the Metropolitan Opera, and sang principal bass roles in nearly every major opera house worldwide. Career Tozzi was born George John Tozzi in Chicago, Illinois. He studied at DePaul University with Rosa Raisa, Giacomo Rimini and John Daggett Howell. He later studied singing in New York City with Beverley Peck Johnson. He made his professional debut in the Broadway production of Britten's ''The Rape of Lucretia'' in 1948 as Tarquinius. His signature roles included Figaro in Mozart's ''The Marriage of Figaro'', Philip II in Verdi's ''Don Carlos'', Hans Sachs in Wagner's ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'', and Méphistophélès in Gounod's ''Faust''. In 1957 he portrayed the title role in a nationally broadcast performance of Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov'' with the NBC Opera Theatre. In 1958 he created the role of The Doctor in Barber's ''Vanessa''. In July 1958, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Tozzi
Claudio Tozzi is a Brazilian artist born in 1944 in São Paulo, Brazil, who has worked since the 1960s to challenge the political and social culture of Brazil and the world. Through his art he has highlighted the censorship of military dictatorships, the woes of mass media, and the strength of individuals. He participated in the NeoFiguration movement, primarily about to issues experienced by Brazilians. Brazil lived under an oppressive dictatorship for years and the NeoFiguration movement worked to question the physical and social conditions of the era. Tozzi's work has since been shared worldwide as he has gained popularity outside Brazil due to widely understood themes. Biography Tozzi was born in 1944 in São Paulo, Brazil where he continues to live and work. He entered the University of São Paulo's Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism when 20 years old. During his education, he met Mário Schenberg, a physicist and critic, who termed Tozzi's art NeoFiguration; and from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Tozzi
Ricardo Tozzi (born August 18, 1975) is a Brazilian actor. He was known for playing characters in the novels Insensato Coração, Cheias de Charme e Amor à Vida. Biography He graduated in Business Administration and dropped his career as an executive to work on novels. It premiered on television in soap operas '' Bang Bang'', as the doctor Harold. In July 2007, broke up with actress Daniele Suzuki. In 2006, Ricardo took the novel ''Pé na Jaca'' and in 2007, the show ''Malhação''. After participating in the series of episodes of TV Globo, Ricardo in 2009, he joined the cast of the novel ''India – A Love Story''. In 2010, Ricardo was in the theater with the play written and directed ''Colapso'' of Hamilton Vaz Pereira. In the cast are also Osmar Prado, André Mattos, Lena Brito and Emanuelle Araújo. Also in 2010, staged the play ''Hell'', along with Bárbara Paz, directed by Hector Babenco. Also that year, part of the series ''S.O.S. Emergência'' and ''A Vida Alheia' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Tozzi (PFFR)
James Michael Tozzi (born October 19, 1967) is an American artist, commercial director, producer, voice actor and musician best known for his work on the MTV2 comedy series ''Wonder Showzen'' and the Adult Swim show '' Xavier: Renegade Angel'' and as a member of the rock band/art collective PFFR. Bio Jim Tozzi grew up in Everett, a city to the north of Boston. The most distinctive thing about this town was the smell of freshly roasted peanuts due to the Teddie Peanut Butter factory. The factory's emblem, a grinning cartoon bear with a bucket, would be one of the first influences of advertising on Jim. He went to Everett public school: always an outsider, he preferred drawing weird cartoons and watching monster movies to playing sports. In his early teens, Jim borrowed a super 8 camera from his Aunt and began experimenting. Lacking a tripod, he would tape the camera down onto the kitchen table and animate various toys, Star Wars figures and clay monsters. He also created a li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fausto Tozzi
Fausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for ''The Defeated Victor'', which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, '' Trastevere''. Life and career Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for '' Professor, My Son'' (1946) and ''Under the Sun of Rome'' (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in ''Rugant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Tozzi
Mario Tozzi (30 October 1895 – 8 September 1979) was an Italian painter. He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government. Biography Tozzi studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna in Italy where he met Giorgio Morandi and Osvaldo Licini. He graduated in 1916. After the First World War, he moved to Paris, France and founded the ''Groupe des Sept'' (also known as ''Les Italiens de Paris'') with Massimo Campigli, Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Renato Paresce, Alberto Savinio and Gino Severini. Tozzi returned to Rome in 1936. His work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1938, 1942, 1948, 1952 and 1954. He returned to France in 1971, dying there in 1979. A catalogue raisonné of his paintings was published In 1988 by Giorgio Mondadori Editore and edited by Marilena Pasquali. Public collections * Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France * Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, Lyon, France * Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Bern, Switzerland * Pushkin Museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahyna Tozzi
Tahyna MacManus (née Tozzi; born 24 April 1986) is an Australian actress, director, writer and producer. Tahyna starred in several television series and film blockbusters including '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' before moving to roles behind the lens focusing on directing and producing. Tahyna co-founded an all female led production company, Neon Jane Productions alongside producer Kelly Tomasich. In 2020 the duo launched The Australian Womens Film Festival, a short film festival celebrating women in film and honouring those who have made a significant contribution to the industry. Early life MacManus grew up in the Sydney beach-side suburb of Cronulla with her Italian father, Dutch mother and younger sister, model Cheyenne Tozzi. She began modelling at eight years old. Career MacManus played Perri Lawe on the ABC drama '' Blue Water High'' in 2005. She returned to the series for the second-to-last episode of the second series, which aired in December 2006. Following that, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Tozzi
Jim Tozzi is an American lobbyist, currently the head of the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness, an industry-supported, for-profit lobbying organization that describes itself as a "regulatory watchdog." Formerly, he was a regulatory official of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). His partner for many years was Thorne G. Auchter and they ran two main lobbying organisations, Federal Focus and Multinational Business Services. These two lobbying operations worked for both the chemical and the tobacco industries for many years. Philip Morris renewed their request for a tax-free gift of $200,000 each year. Career Tozzi was instrumental in the passage of the Paperwork Reduction Act and the establishment of the OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 1980. Under his directorship, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs was the gatekeeper for virtually all proposed regulations dealing with public health and safety. Tozzi was the Deputy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federigo Tozzi
Federigo Tozzi (born 1 January 1883 in Siena; died 21 March 1920 in Rome) was an Italian writer. Biography He was the son of an innkeeper. He initially worked as a railway official, but took over running the family inn after his father's death. In 1911 he published his first book of poetry. Two years later, he began work on his first novel, ''Con gli occhi chiusi'' ("With closed eyes"), which was highly autobiographical. That same year, he also founded a nationalist, bi-weekly magazine called ''La Torre'' and became a journalist in Rome. Through his literary activity, he caught the attention of the writer Luigi Pirandello, who subsequently supported him. Tozzi died in 1920 from a combination of influenza and pneumonia. In the decades following his death, he came to be considered one of the first Italian modernists. According to Italo Calvino, he is one of the great European writers of Italian descent. His style is concise and laconic (Piper Verlag). According to Alberto Moravi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Tozzi
Bruno Tozzi (27 November 1656 - 29 January 1743) was an Italian monk, botanist and mycologist. A member of the Vallombrosan Order, he was a mentor for Pier Antonio Micheli who named the plant genus '' Tozzia'' in his honour. Tozzi was born in Montevarchi and his father Francesco di Simone Tozzi came from Florence. He was ordained in the Vallombrosan Order on May 5, 1676. He took an interest in the study of nature, travelling into the Alps and across Italy, collecting natural history specimens. Along with Micheli he took an interest in the fungi and described many species with illustrations. His manuscript ''Sylva fungorum'' is preserved at the Bibliotheca Nazionale, Florence. Tozzi was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1715 and corresponded with James Petiver, Hans Sloane Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberto Tozzi
Humberto Barbosa Tozzi (4 February 1934 – 17 April 1980) was a Brazilian international footballer who played for São Cristóvão, Palmeiras, Lazio and Fluminense. Tozzi represented Brazil at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1954 FIFA World Cup The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzerla .... References External links *Museu dos Esportes* 1934 births 1980 deaths Brazilian footballers Brazil international footballers Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Brazil 1954 FIFA World Cup players Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players S.S. Lazio players Fluminense FC players Brazilian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy Serie A players People from São João de Meriti Association football forwards Sportspeople from Rio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
