Rosario Di Bella (born 27 July 1963) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician.

Background

Born in

Zafferana Etnea Zafferana Etnea (; scn, Zafarana ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about north of Catania. The municipality of Zafferana Etnea contains the ...

Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...

, Di Bella studied piano and medicine at the

University of Catania The University of Catania ( it, Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located in Catania, Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a ...

. After a long period spent traveling around the world and playing with groups and formations from different backgrounds, in 1987 Di Bella participated at the

Castrocaro Music Festival The Castrocaro Music Festival, also known as Concorso per Voci Nuove, is an Italian musical contest which takes place every year in the town of Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, near Forlì, from 1957. The competition is exclusively reserved for ne ...

, winning the competition with the song "Sono interessante". The first album, ''Pittore Di Me Stesso'', was released in 1989, obtaining good reviews from critics. In 1991 he debuted 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 ...

, as a member of a trio consisting of himself, Marco Conidi and Bungaro; their song "E noi qui" was a commercial success. He came back in Sanremo Festival as a soloist two years later, with the song "E io che non volevo". In 1995 Di Bella got his major commercial success with the song "Difficile amarsi". Since 2001 Di Bella focused on composing, writing among others for

Paolo Meneguzzi Paolo Meneguzzi (born 6 December 1976, as Pablo Meneguzzo) is a Swiss Italian singer. He is the son of Loredana Pacchiani and Gomez Meneguzzo. Biography In 1996, while the name Paolo Meneguzzi was still unknown in Italy, Paolo won the Viña del ...

and

Patty Pravo Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli on 9 April 1948) is an Italian singer. She debuted in 1966 and remained most successful commercially for the rest of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Having suffered a decline in popularity in the followin ...

Discography

* 1989 - ''Pittore di me stesso'' * 1991 - ''Figlio perfetto'' * 1995 - ''Esperanto'' * 2000 - ''I miei amici'' * 2001 - ''Rosario Di Bella'' (collection) * 2004 - ''Made in Italy'' (collection) * 2007 - ''Il negozio della solitudine'' * 2016 - ''Spirituality'' (in couple with

Juri Camisasca Roberto Camisasca (born 9 August 1951), best known as Juri Camisasca, is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer. Life and career Born in Melegnano, a self-taught musician, Camisasca debuted in 1974 with the progressive rock album ''La finestr ...

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