Rosalino Cellamare (born 13 August 1953) better known as Ron, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician.
Born in
Dorno
Dorno is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southwest of Milan and about west of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,415 and an area of .All demographics and othe ...
,
province of Pavia
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, he debuted under his true name at the 1970 edition of the
Sanremo 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 ...
, together with
Nada
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. In the following years he distinguished as songwriter for
Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.
Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and ...
and others.
After a period as actor, he returned collaborating with Dalla and De Gregori in their ''Banana Republic'' tour of 1979, and issuing the LPs ''Una città per cantare'' (1980) and ''Anima'' (1982). These were followed by ''Joe Temerario'' (1984) and ''Il mondo avrà una grande anima'' (1988).
''Una città per cantare'' is an Italian cover of ''The Road'', song
Danny O'Keefe
Danny O'Keefe (born May 20, 1943) is an American folk singer and songwriter.
Career
In 1968, O'Keefe was a member of a four-man heavy psychedelic rock band named Calliope. The group recorded one album, ''Steamed'', for Buddah Records before di ...
; Italian lyrics are written by
Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.
Dalla was the composer of " Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enrico Caruso, and ...
.
In 1996, he won 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 "Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni", sung alongside
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...