Nicola Arigliano (6 December 1923 – 30 March 2010) was an Italian jazz singer, musician, and occasional actor. Born in
Squinzano
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,
Province of Lecce
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, at young age he ran away from home because of the humiliations received even by family members due to his
stuttering
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and moved to
Turin
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, where he was hosted by fellow immigrants.
He later moved to
Milan
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and later to
Rome
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, where he held several jobs.
After studying music theory, learning to play the saxophone and singing as an amateur in several orchestras, Arigliano became first known in 1952 thanks to the participation at the
Newport Jazz Festival
The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years. They hire ...
(at the suggestion of
Marshall Brown), which back in Italy got him several television appearances and which gave the way to his professional career.
[ After some ]78 rpm
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released in 1956 for RCA
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, in 1958 he took part at ''Canzonissima
''Canzonissima'' was an Italian musical variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1958 to 1974, aired on Saturday evening except for the last two editions in which it was aired on Sunday afternoon. The program was referred to as "the synthesis and the ...
'',[ and in 1960 he got his first hit with the song "I Sing Ammore", which reached the ninth place on the Italian hit parade.][ while in 1964 he entered the main competition at the ]Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual ...
with the song "20 Km Al Giorno".Nat King Cole
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's music career began after he dropped out of school at the age of 15, and continued f ...
: ''Cappuccina''. In 1968, Arigliano moved to Magliano Sabina
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and significantly slowed his activities.[ In 2005 he came back at the Sanremo Music Festival and won the Critics' Award with the song "Colpevole".][ Arigliano sang in Italian and in English, sometimes playfully mixing the languages.
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External links
Nicola Arigliano
at Discogs
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People from the Province of Lecce
1923 births
2010 deaths
Italian jazz singers
Italian pop singers
20th-century Italian male singers
Male jazz musicians