Giandomenico Boncompagni (13 May 1932 – 16 April 2017), best known as Gianni Boncompagni, was a television and radio presenter, director, writer and a lyricist.

Life and career

Born in

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, at 18 years old Boncompagni moved to Sweden, where he lived for ten years doing various jobs, graduating at the Swedish Academy of graphics and photography and starting a radio career as a

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."Boncompagni, Gianni". ''Chi è. Mille nomi dell'Italia che conta''. Vol. I. L'Espresso, 1986. Married to a Swedish woman, after divorcing in the early 1960s he moved back to Italy with his three daughters, and together with

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he created the radio program ''Bandiera gialla'', the first Italian musical program focused on rock music and other avantgarde genres.Fabrizio Zampa. "Gianni Boncompagni". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990.Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. "Boncompagni, Gianni". ''Catalogo dei viventi''. Marsilio, 2009. . In 1970 the duo Arbore-Boncompagni also created ''Alto Gradimento'', an innovative and successful radio variety show which launched the career of several comedians, including the brothers

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. Boncompagni made his television debut in 1977, as the presenter of the musical variety ''

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''.Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. . In the mid-1980s, he got a personal success as the director and author of the television programs ''Pronto, Raffaella?'' and ''Pronto, chi gioca?'', and between 1987 and 1990 he wrote and directed the Sunday afternoon show ''

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''. In 1991 he moved to

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, where he created the show ''

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'', which launched the career of several future actresses including

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(presenter from the third season),

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. In the second half of the 1990s he came back to

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, where he got a further success with the late night variety show ''Macao''. Boncompagni is also well known as a lyricist, and his collaborations include songs by

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, and

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Personal life

Boncompagni had a ten year relationship with the television presenter and singer

. He also had relationships with actresses

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and

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. His younger daughter Barbara (born in 1963) had a brief career in the 1980s as a singer and a showgirl.

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