Wilma Goich (; born 16 October 1945) is an Italian pop singer and television personality.

Career

Born in

Cairo Montenotte Cairo Montenotte () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Savona in Liguria, an Italian region located west of Genoa and northwest of Savona. Located in Val Bormida, it is a member of the Comunità Montana Alta Val Bormida. It is con ...

Savona Savona (; lij, Sann-a ) is a seaport and ''comune'' in the west part of the northern Italy, Italian region of Liguria, capital of the Province of Savona, in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea. Savona used to be one of the chie ...

, Goich began her career in 1964, when she released her first single "Dopo il sole pioverà". She scored two domestic hits in 1966 and 1968 with the songs "In un fiore" and "Gli occhi miei", which peaked respectively sixth and seventh place on the Italian charts. Between 1971 and 1979 Goich formed with her then-husband

Edoardo Vianello Edoardo Vianello (born 24 June 1938) is an Italian singer, composer and actor. He's considered one of the most popular Italian singers of the Sixties. Career Born in Rome, Vianello started his career in 1956. His first successes came in 1961, w ...

the folk-pop duo Vianella. In 1991 she joined the TV presenter

Mike Bongiorno Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno (; May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009) was an Italian-American television host. After a few experiences in the US, he started working on RAI in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host in Ital ...

in the

Canale 5 Canale 5 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel of Mediaset, owned by MFE - MediaForEurope. It was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980. On 4 December 2012, Mediaset launched Canale 5 HD, a s ...

quiz show ''Tris''.Joseph Baroni, ''Dizionario della Televisione'', pp. 136–137, Raffaello Cortina Editore. . Goich entered 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 ...

competition six times between 1965 and 1994.

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* * * * 1945 births People from Cairo Montenotte Italian pop singers Living people Italian television personalities 20th-century Italian women singers 21st-century Italian women singers {{Italy-singer-stub