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Carla Vistarini
Carla Vistarini (born 8 July 1948 in Rome) is an Italian lyricist, writer, playwright and scriptwriter. The daughter of actor Franco Silva and the elder sister of actress Mita Medici, she has written songs for various major Italian artists such as Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Mia Martini, Patty Pravo, Riccardo Fogli, Peppino di Capri, Loretta Goggi, Raffaella Carrà, Renato Zero. She has been artistic director of Sanremo Music Festival 1997 in trio with Giorgio Moroder and Pino Donaggio. She won the David di Donatello Award in 1995 for best scriptwriting for '' Nemici d'infanzia''. She is the author of the TV program '' Pavarotti & Friends International'', aired on Rai Uno Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's flagship television channel and is known for broadcasting mainstream and general ... from 1991 until 1998. Her novel (''If I'm scared take my ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nemici D'infanzia
''Nemici d'infanzia'' is a 1995 Italian comedy drama film written by Luigi Magni and Carla Vistarini and directed by Luigi Magni.Franco Montini, Piero Spila, ''Il mondo di Luigi Magni : avventure, sogni e disincanto''. Rai Eri, 2000. . The film won the David di Donatello for Best Script The David di Donatello Award for Best Screenplay (Italian: ''David di Donatello per la migliore sceneggiatura'') was a film award presented by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize outstanding screen .... Cast * Renato Carpentieri: Corsini * Paolo Murano: Paolo * Giorgia Tartaglia: Luciana * Nicola Russo: Marco References External links * 1995 films Italian comedy-drama films Films directed by Luigi Magni 1995 comedy-drama films Films scored by Nicola Piovani 1990s Italian films {{1990s-comedy-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrico Vaime
Enrico Vaime (19 January 1936 – 28 March 2021) was an Italian author, playwright, screenwriter, television and radio writer and presenter. Born in Perugia, after graduating in law in 1960 Vaime was employed by RAI, but he resigned almost immediately in order to have a wider artistic freedom. In 1963 he debuted as a playwright with the comedy '' I piedi al caldo'', which was banned by Italian censorship shortly after its first representation at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto. In 1971 he started a proficuous collaboration with the writer Italo Terzoli; their debut novel, ''Amore significa'', was a bestseller and got over thirty editions. From 1977, the couple also wrote a series of musicals and comedy plays for Garinei & Giovannini. Vaime is also author of several essays, notably ''Il varietà è morto'' (1989). He is the author and presenter, since 1978, of the variety show ''Black Out'', one of the longest running radio programs in Italy. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italo Terzoli
Italo Terzoli (18 January 1924 – 13 May 2008) was an Italian author, playwright, screenwriter, television and radio writer. Born in Milan, Terzoli started his career as a playwright in the early 1950s, collaborating first with Carlo Silva and later with Renzo Puntoni a number of musical comedies for popular comedians of the time such as Walter Chiari, Sorelle Nava, and the couple Sandra Mondaini and Raimondo Vianello. In the 1960s he wrote a number of stage comedies together with Marcello Marchesi. In 1971 he started a proficuous collaboration with the writer Enrico Vaime; their debut novel A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes. Debut novels are often the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to pu ..., ''Amore significa'', was a bestseller and got over thirty editions. From 1977, the couple also wrote a series of musicals and comedy plays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schola Cantorum (Italian Vocal Group)
Schola Cantorum was an Italian vocal group, active between 1974 and 1995. Career The group was formed in 1974 by record label RCA Italiana with the double aim of launching some promising performers and exploiting songs they held the rights by producing new, rearranged cover versions of them. Sergio Rendine, Paolo Dossena and Marco Luberti served as producers, with Rendine also serving as arranger.Ernesto Bassignano. "Schola Cantorum". Gino Castaldo (ed.). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. After taking part to the RAI musical variety ''Senza Rete'', they got their first hit in 1975, with the song "Le tre campane", a cover version of "Les trois cloches" which peaked 7th on the Italian hit parade. The group disbanded in 1980, with several members starting solo careers and some others going on permanent hiatus. It reformed in 1986 with a slightly different line-up, first renaming themselves as Nova Schola Cantorum and later reprising their original name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Di Bari
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor. He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music. Life and career Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children from a farming family.''B & N'', Volume 32, Edizioni 7–12. Società Gestione Editoriali, 1971. p. 90. He gave up his accountancy studies to work in Rome, and after a short stay in Rome he moved to Milan. In 1962, in Cologno Monzese, he won a song contest with a song of which he was also the author, "Piano pianino". In 1964 he achieved his first commercial success with the song "Amore ritorna a casa". Between 1965 and 1967 he entered the competition at three editions of the Sanremo Music Festival, while coupled with Gene Pitney. In 1970 Di Bari obtained even greater commercial and critical success with the song " La prima cosa bella", which ranked second at the Sanremo Music Festival and first on the Italian hit charts. In 1971 he won the Sanr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Cicco
Antonio "Tony" Cicco (born 28 November 1949), also known as Cico and Toni Cicco, is an Italian drummer and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the vocalist and drummer of the group Formula 3. Life and career Born in Naples in a family of musicians, Cicco started his career performing in several local bands. Assante, Ernesto (1990). "Cicco, Tony". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore. pp.383-4. In 1969, he started collaborating with Lucio Battisti, serving as drummer in most of his works of the time, and the same year, together with Gabriele Lorenzi and Alberto Radius, he formed the band Formula 3, with whom under the production of Battisti he had significant success for a lustre. After the disbandment of Formula 3, Cicco adopted the stage name "Cico" and made his solo debut with ''Notte'', an album which reprised the band's style, while starting from his 1976 album ''E mia madre'' his style became closer to the cantautori traditio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paolo Dossena
Paolo Dossena (born 29 January 1942) is an Italian record producer, lyricist, arranger and composer. Life and career Born in Parma, Dossena moved to Rome in the early 1960s and started collaborating with RCA Records, soon specializing in producing French artists such as Charles Aznavour, Dalida, Sylvie Vartan and Alain Barrière, often also translating the original lyrics of their songs for their Italian cover versions.Riccardo Giagni. "Dossena, Paolo". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. In the early 1970s Dossena founded the label Delta, and produced artists such as Riccardo Cocciante, Antonello Venditti, Francesco De Gregori and Patty Pravo, occasionally also serving as arranger and songwriter. After collaborating with the record company CAM, in 1990 he founded a new label, Compagnia Nuove Indye, also known as CNI Music, which launched groups such as Almamegretta and Agricantus. Dossena is also active as a film score co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caterina Caselli
Caterina Caselli (born 10 April 1946) is an Italian singer, bass player, record producer and music executive. Biography Caselli was born in Modena but grew up in Sassuolo. She started her music career by playing bass in local clubs. In 1966 she debuted in the Sanremo Festival with " Nessuno mi può giudicare", a song discarded by Adriano Celentano, scoring a notable success. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Caselli also had considerable success with an Italian cover of the David McWilliams song "Days of Pearly Spencer" called "Il volto della vita". Her first album, ''Casco d'oro'' (Golden Bob), was titled after a nickname given to her by the music press. In 1966 she scored another domestic hit with the song " Perdono”. In 1968 Caselli enjoyed further success with a dynamic version of the Paolo Conte-penned tune “ Insieme a te non ci sto più". In 2006, Caselli recorded a new version of the song for the soundtrack of the Michele Soavi's neo-n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edoardo Vianello
Edoardo Vianello (born 24 June 1938) is an Italian singer, composer and actor, considered one of the most popular Italian singers of the 1960s. Career Born in Rome, Vianello started his career in 1956. His first successes came in 1961, with "Il capello" ("The Hair") and "Pinne fucile ed occhiali" ("Fins, rifle, and glasses"), which both charted up to the 2nd position in the Italian Hit Parade. Vianello had several successes in the 1960s, such as "Guarda come dondolo" ("Watch How I swing"), " Abbronzatissima" ("Very Tanned"), "O mio signore" ("Oh My Lord") which topped the charts, and "I Watussi" which went up to 3rd. After a less successful period, he re-launched his career in the 1970s, founding the duo Vianella with his wife Wilma Goich. Their main hit of the period was "Semo gente de borgata" ("We Are People from a Small Town") that reached #7. In the late 1970s, he reprised his solo career. As of 2006, songs of Vianello were included in the soundtracks of 64 films while t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amedeo Minghi
Amedeo Minghi (born 12 August 1947) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer and producer. Life and career Born in Rome, Minghi started his career in the mid-1960s participating in a large number of musical contests, and then making his professional debut in 1966 with the single "Alla fine", with lyrics by Mogol. The disappointing commercial results of the song and the military service took him away from the musical industry for several years. Following a new single in 1971, in 1973 he released his first eponymous album, with the uncredited collaboration of Francesco De Gregori. In the same years Minghi started collaborating as a composer with several artists, such as Vianella and Ricchi e Poveri. In the mid-1970s he was briefly a member of the musical ensamble Pandemonium, with whom he recorded his song "L'immenso", which got several international covers and was his first real success. Left the group, he released a new album in 1980 (''Minghi'') and started working as a pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Showmen
The Showmen were a New Orleans–based American doo-wop and R&B group formed in 1961. They are best remembered for their track "It Will Stand", issued on Minit Records. "It Will Stand" (Minit 632) reached No. 61 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1961, and when re-released in 1964 (Imperial 66033) re-charted and reached No. 80. They had another hit, the Carolina Beach Music standard "39-21-40 Shape;" the label on the single, however, was mistakenly printed "39-21-46," and this soon supplanted the official title. Unlike the majority of musicians that recorded for New Orleans record labels controlled by Joe Banashak, the Showmen were not from that locality. They all came from Norfolk, Virginia, moving to New Orleans in May 1961 and April 1962, to record fifteen titles under the studio supervision of Allen Toussaint. General Norman Johnson, at the age of twelve, formed the group the Humdingers that would eventually become the Showmen. In the late 1950s, Noah Biggs began managing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
