Sandro Giacobbe (born 14 December 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Life and career
Born in
Genova
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of G ...
in 1949, Giacobbe started his career in the early 1970s and got his first success in 1974, with the song "Signora mia", which entered the top-ten on the Italian hit parade.
For about a decade, he got several major hits, usually consisting in romantic ballads characterized by intimate and sometimes malicious tones.
His song ""El Jardín Prohibido", the Spanish-language version of "Il giardino proibito", peaked on first place at the Spanish hit parade in 1976.
The same year, 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 annua ...
, ranking third with the song "Gli occhi di tua madre";
the song reached the second place on the Italian hit parade.
His last major hit was the 1982 song "Sarà la nostalgia".
From the mid-1980s he mainly devoted his career to live concerts and to initiatives of solidarity.
In 2003 he ranked second at the
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
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Discography
; Album
* 1974: ''Signora mia''
* 1975: ''Il giardino proibito''
* 1976: ''Metto all'asta... ''
* 1977: ''Bimba ''
* 1978: ''Lenti a contatto ''
* 1979: ''Mi va che ci sei ''
* 1980: ''Notte senza di te''
* 1990: ''Io vorrei ''
* 1991:'' Sulla mia stessa strada ''
* 1992: ''Le donne ''
* 1994: ''E venti.... ''
* 1998: ''Il meglio ''
* 2007: ''Vuoi ballare''
* 2008:'' Trentacinque''
* 2013: ''Insieme noi''
References
External links
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Sandro Giacobbeat
Discogs
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Musicians from Genoa
1951 births
Italian pop singers
Italian composers
Italian male composers
Italian male singer-songwriters
Italian singer-songwriters
Living people
Italian male singers
Spanish-language singers of Italy