Remo Germani, the stage name of Remo Speroni, (31 May 1938 – 18 October 2010) was an Italian singer and occasional actor, mainly successful in the 1960s.

Life and career

He was born in

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. While employed as a bank teller in 1957, Germani started performing as a singer in his spare time. Put under contract by the record company

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, in 1962 he got his first success, "Baci". In 1963 he ranked third on the Italian hit parade with the song "Non andare col tamburo". Between 1964 and 1967 he participated to four editions of the

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and appeared in a few

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films. In 1978 he moved to

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, where he founded Radio City Ducale. From the 1980s he was active as the leader of a dance orchestra. In his later years he developed diabetes.

Discography

;Albums * 1963 - ''Baci'' (Jolly, LPJ 5026) * 1965 - ''Remo Germani'' (Jolly, LPJ 5044) * 1990 - ''Germani 90'' (Fonit Cetra, PL 798) * 1998 - ''Remo Germani - Baci'' (Joker, CD 22193)

References

External links

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Germani, Remo 1937 births 2010 deaths Singers from Milan Italian male film actors Italian pop singers 20th-century Italian male singers