Giovanni Scialpi, best known as Scialpi or Shalpy (; born 14 May 1962) is an Italian pop singer, active from the early eighties of the 20th century.

Background

Born in

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, Scialpi had an immediate success in the Summer of 1983 with the song "Rocking Rolling". Considered a sex symbol, in the 1980s he amassed several domestic hits, alternating romantic ballads (such as "Cigarettes and Coffee") and upbeat songs marked by futuristic lyrics (such as the cited "Rocking Rolling" and "No East No West", with whom he entered the competition at the 1986

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). In 1988 he won the

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with the song "Pregherei". Since the 1990s he gradually slowed down his production although he never dropped out from music altogether. Scialpi also appeared as an actor in an episode of the TV series ''

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'' and starred on several

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s. In 1990 he co-hosted the variety television ''Ricomincio da due'' together with

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. In 2012 he changed his stage name to Shalpy. In July 2015 he announced his marriage with Roberto Blasi, an actor. They had been in a relationship since 2009. In September 2015 he took part to the fourth Italian edition of '' Pechino Express''.

Discography

Selected singles

*″Rocking Rolling″ (1983) *″Mi manchi tu″ (1983) *″Cigarettes and Coffee″ (1984) *″No East No West″ (1986) *″Cry″ (1986) *″Bella età″ (1987) *″Pregherei″ (with Scarlett, 1988) *″Il grande fiume″ (1990) *″A... amare″ (1991) *″È una nanna″ (1992) *″Baciami″ (1994) *″Che per amore fai″ (1995) *″Bella signora″ (1998) *″La creazione″ (2001) *″Sono quel ragazzo″ (2002) *″Pregherò Imparerò Salverò″ (2003) *″Non ti amo più″ (2005) *″Goodbye″ (2006) *″I believe I can fly″ (2011) *″Here I am″ (2011) *″Ilventocaldodellestate″(2012) *″Icon-man″ (2012) *″Music is Mine″ (2013) *″Came to Me″ (2014)

Studio albums

*''Es-tensioni'' (1983) *''Animale'' (1984) *''Scialpi'' (1986) *''Yo soy el amor'' (1987) *''Un morso e via'' (1988) *''Trasparente'' (1990) *''Neroe'' (1991) *''360 gradi'' (1992) *''XXX'' (1994) *''Spazio 1995'' (1995) *''Scialpi'' (2000) *''Spingi, invoca, ali'' (2003) *''Autoscatto'' (2006) *''Liberi e Romantici'' (2011)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scialpi 1962 births Musicians from Parma Italian pop singers Italian male actors Living people Italian LGBT singers Italian rock singers Italian Italo disco musicians English-language singers from Italy Participants in Italian reality television series ZYX Music artists