Giovanni Bella, best known as Gianni Bella (born 14 March 1946), is an Italian composer and singer-songwriter.

Background

Born in

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, Bella started his career as composer for his sister, singer

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authoring several hits with lyricist

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. In the seventies he debuted as a singer himself, scoring his first major success in 1974 with the song "Più ci penso", which ranked second in the Italian hit parade. In 1976 he topped the hit parade and won the

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. ...

contest with the song "Non si può morire dentro", originally planned to be sung by her sister. In 1981 he entered the competition at the

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with the song "Questo amore non si tocca"; he returned in Sanremo five more times between 1986 and 2007, three times in couple with her sister Marcella. In 1983 Bella stopped the collaboration with Bigazzi and started a new phase alongside Mogol; between late 1990s and 2000s the couple signed some extraordinary sales successes for

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. In January 2010 he suffered a stroke and subsequently he lost his speech and the use of a leg.

Discography

Selected singles

Studio albums

* 1974 - ''Guarda che ti amo'' (Derby) * 1976 - ''Sogni di un robot'' (Derby) * 1977 - ''Io canto e tu'' (Derby) * 1978 - ''Toc toc'' ( CGD) * 1980 - ''Dolce uragano'' (CGD) * 1981 - ''Questo amore...'' (CGD) * 1983 - ''G.b.1 - Nuova gente'' (Avventura) * 1984 - ''G.b.2'' (Avventura) * 1986 - ''Una luce'' (

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) * 1988 - ''Due cuori rossi di vergogna'' (

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) * 1991 - ''La fila degli oleandri'' (

Fonit Cetra Fonit Cetra was an Italian record label, active between 1957 and 2000. History Fonit Cetra was founded in 1957 from merging two already existing labels: Cetra (acronym from Compagnia per edizioni, teatro, registrazioni ed affini), owned by RAI an ...

) * 1994 - ''Vocalist'' (Fonit Cetra)The album was republished in 1995 with the title ''Belladonna'' by Pull Music/CGD East West. * 1998 - ''Finalmente insieme'' (with

) (Pull/Fuego) * 2001 - ''Il profumo del mare'' (SDC/

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) * 2007 - ''Forever per sempre'' (with

) (Nuova Gente/

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)

Live albums

* 1992 - ''Gianni Bella live'' (Fonit Cetra) * 1996 - ''Grandi successi - live'' (Duck Record)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bella, Gianni 1946 births Musicians from Catania Italian singer-songwriters Italian pop singers Living people Composers from Sicily Italian male composers Spanish-language singers of Italy 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century Italian male musicians