Massimo Ranieri (born Giovanni Calone on 3 May 1951) is an Italian singer, actor, television presenter and director.
Biography
Early life
Ranieri was born in
Naples
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( at Santa Lucia), the fifth of eight children in the family. When he was 10, young Giovanni would sing at restaurants,
wedding reception
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s, etc. He was discovered by a music producer about four years later and was flown to New York to record an EP under the name of Gianni Rock.
Singing career
Ranieri recorded four songs in 1964: Tanti auguri signora, Se mi aspetti stasera, Non chiudere la porta, and La Prima Volta. None of the records were successful, primarily because young Gianni's voice was changing. Two years later, he would re-emerge under his new stage name, Massimo Ranieri. In 1966, he made his TV debut singing "Bene Mio". A year later, he made another TV appearance singing, "Pietà per chi ti ama". In 1968, he recorded two more songs: "Da Bambino", Ma L'amore cos'è" and "Preghiera".
It was not until 1969 when he achieved success and became a teen idol when he sang "O Sole Mio" on live TV. That same year, he had a string of hits: "Rita", "Se bruciasse la citta", "Quando l'amore diventa poesia", "Il mio amore resta sempre", "Rose rosse" and "Zingara". In 1970, " Vent'anni", "Sogno d'amore", "Sei l'amore mio", "Aranjuez Amore Mio", and "Candida".
In 1971, Ranieri recorded the songs "Adagio Veneziano", "Via del Conservatorio", and "Io e Te". He represented Italy in the 1971 ''
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
'' in Dublin, Ireland, where he placed 5th with the song "L'Amore E' Un Attimo. " In 1972, he released the songs "Ti Ruberei", "O Surdato 'nnamurato", and "Erba di Casa Mia"; in 1973, "Amo Ancora Lei". He returned to the Eurovision Song Contest that year, in Luxembourg, to represent Italy with "Chi sarà con te", where he placed 13th. In 1974, came the singles "Te Voglio Bene Assaie", "Immagina", and "Per Una Donna".
In 1988, he made a comeback to his singing career with the song, " Perdere l'amore", which won the
Sanremo 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 ...
, that year. In 1997, he made another comeback with "Ti parlerò d'amore".
In February 2007, he started a concert tour of Italy, titled "Canto perché non-so nuotare...da 40 anni" which lasted for more than two years, with more than 500 shows, was made into a CD and a DVD, which went platinum.
In 2022, he won the
Mia Martini
Mia Martini (; born Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè ; 20 September 1947 – 12 May 1995) was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician.James Christopher MongerMia Martini allmusic.comMetello'' received rave reviews from critics, and won him the David DiDonatello award for best actor for portraying the title character. He co-starred with Anna Magnani in the television film '' La Sciantosa'' later that year.
In 1974, he filmed '' Salvo D'Acquisto'', where he portrayed a carabiniere who was executed by the Nazis during World War II.
When his singing career started to decline in 1975, Massimo concentrated on his acting career, both in the cinema and, most importantly, as a stage actor: he collaborated with the directors Mauro Bolognini,
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (26 February 1921 – 15 December 2005) was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director, and author.
He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spen ...
, Giorgio de Lullo,
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director.
Biography
Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ...
and Maurizio Scaparro, performing a wide range of material from modern plays and musicals, to Molière and Shakespeare.
In 1996, Ranieri provided the speaking and the singing voice of Quasimodo in the Italian-Language version of Disney's ''
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
''The Hunchback of Notre-Dame'' (french: Notre-Dame de Paris, translation=''Our Lady of Paris'', originally titled ''Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482'') is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story ...
''. He even reprised this role in the
sequel
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.
In 2004, he starred in his first French film, a trilogy series called '' Les Parisiens'', where he played a street artist. In 2005, he returned on the stage with the show "Accussì Grande", after a long bout with illness, from which he fully recovered. In 2007, he was in a docu-film called Civico 0, where he played Guilano, a fruit vendor, who becomes homeless after the death of his mother. In 2008, he starred in the film '' L'Ultimo Pulcinella''.
In 2009, he played the storyteller in the play, Polvere di Baghdad, directed by Maurizio Scaparro.
In 2010, Massimo was featured in Passione, a documentary about the history of music from Naples, Italy, directed by Italian-American actor,
John Turturro
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. In November 2010, he took part in the miniseries remake of the classic play, ''
Filumena Marturano
''Filumena Marturano'' (, ), sometime performed in English as ''The Best House in Naples'', is a play written in 1946 by Italian playwright, actor and poet Eduardo De Filippo. It is the basis for the 1950 Spanish language Argentine musical film ...
'', produced by Italian TV
RAI
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...
Uno, with Mariangela Melato in the title role. Massimo portrayed Filumena's husband, Domenico Soriano.
Other ventures
On 16 October 2002, Massimo Ranieri was nominated
Goodwill Ambassador
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of the
Food and Agriculture Organization
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of the United Nations (FAO).
Personal life
Ranieri never married. However, in 1971, he fathered a daughter, Cristiana, out of wedlock with Franca Sebastiani. He didn't have anything to do with the raising of his daughter, saying that he was too young and inexperienced for fatherhood, and that it would be damaging to his career. He was never linked with any other woman thereafter. He didn't have any contact with his daughter until they met when she was about 20 years old.
At the start of 2007, he decided to publicly acknowledge his long-estranged daughter, and embraced her for the first time on live TV. It was a tearful reunion between father and daughter.
He also became a grandfather in July 2011.Ranieri's Daughter /ref>
Discography
1964
*USA tour with
Sergio Bruni
Sergio Bruni (stage name of Guglielmo Chianese, 15 September 1921 – 22 June 2003) was a popular Italian singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He was often called "The Voice of Naples".
He was born in the commune of Villaricca, near Naples, Italy ...
*SINGLE: Lassù qualcuno mi ama/Un ragazzo come me (as Gianni Rock)
*SINGLE: Preghiera/Una bocca, due occhi e un nome (as Gianni Rock)
*SINGLE: Se mi aspetti stasera/La prima volta (as Gianni Rock)
*SINGLE: Tanti auguri señora/Non chiudere la porta (as Gianni Rock)
1966
*Scala Reale (later called Canzonissima). He sings "L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa" under the art name Ranieri.
*SINGLE: L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa/Bene mio (as Ranieri)
1967
*He wins the Cantagiro competition of young promises with "Pietà per chi ti ama".
*SINGLE: Pietà per chi ti ama/No, mamma (as Ranieri)
1968
* He participated to the Sanremo song competition with I Giganti with the song "Da bambino"
* Cantagiro with the song "Preghiera per lei".
* SINGLE: Da bambino/Ma l'amore cos'è
* SINGLE: Preghiera per lei/Cento ragazzine
* SINGLE: Rose rosse/Piangi piangi ragazzo
1969
* Sanremo with "Quando l'amore diventa poesia" a duet with Orietta Berti
* Cantagiro where he won first prize with "Rose rosse"
*
Canzonissima
''Canzonissima'' was an Italian musical variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1958 to 1974, aired on Saturday evening except for the last two editions in which it was aired on Sunday afternoon. The program was referred to as "the synthesis and the ...
, 2nd place with "Se bruciasse la città"
* SINGLE: Quando l'amore diventa poesia/Cielo blu
* SINGLE: Il mio amore resta sempre Teresa/Rose rosse )
* SINGLE: Se bruciasse la città/Rita
* SINGLE: 'O sole mio/Ma l'amore cos'è
* First LP titled "Massimo Ranieri".
* Records "Io e te" by Ennio Morricone, the title song from the film 'Metello'.
1970
*
Canzonissima
''Canzonissima'' was an Italian musical variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1958 to 1974, aired on Saturday evening except for the last two editions in which it was aired on Sunday afternoon. The program was referred to as "the synthesis and the ...
, 1st prize with ‘ Vent'anni'
* Release of his 2nd LP, titled "Vent'anni".
* SINGLE: Sei l'amore mio/Fai di me quello che vuoi
* SINGLE: Le braccia dell'amore/Candida
* SINGLE: Sogno d'amore/Mio caro amore evanescente e puro
* SINGLE: Vent'anni/Io non avrò
1971
* SINGLE: L'amore è un attimo/A Lucia
* SINGLE: Io e te/Adagio veneziano
* SINGLE: Via del Conservatorio/Momento
1972
* 'O surdato nammurato' show recorded live (and filmed by RAI TV), at the Sistina Theatre, Rome, directed by Vittorio De Sica.
* LP 'O surdato nammurato'
*
Canzonissima
''Canzonissima'' was an Italian musical variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1958 to 1974, aired on Saturday evening except for the last two editions in which it was aired on Sunday afternoon. The program was referred to as "the synthesis and the ...
, 1st place with "Erba di casa mia"
* LP "Erba di casa mia"
* SINGLE: 'O surdato 'nnammurato/Lacreme napulitane
* SINGLE: La tua innocenza/Ti ruberei
* SINGLE: Amore cuore mio/Io di più
* SINGLE: Erba di casa mia/L'infinito)
1973
* Participates again to Eurofestival with "Chi sarà " .
* LP "Album di famiglia".
* SINGLE: Chi sarà/Domenica domenica
* SINGLE: Chiove/Reginella
* SINGLE: Amo ancora lei/Tu sei bella come il sole
1974
* "Napulammore", theatrical musical show directed by Mauro Bolognini at the Teatro Valle in Rome. The show is recorded live and made into an LP, and transmitted by RAI TV
*
Canzonissima
''Canzonissima'' was an Italian musical variety show broadcast by Rai 1 from 1958 to 1974, aired on Saturday evening except for the last two editions in which it was aired on Sunday afternoon. The program was referred to as "the synthesis and the ...
, 2nd place with "Per una donna"
* LP "Per una donna".
* SINGLE: Immagina/Se tu fossi una rosa
* SINGLE: 'A tazza 'e cafè/Tu ca nun chiagne
* SINGLE: Te voglio bene assaie/A serenata 'e Pulicenella
* *SINGLE: Per una donna/Cara libertà
1975
* LP Il meglio di Massimo Ranieri (CGD, 69128; antologia)
* LP "Meditazione" with arrangements by Eumir Deodato, with pieces from the classical repertoire.
* "Macchie ‘e culore", at the Teatro Valle, Rome, directed by Mauro Bolognini – recorded live, made into a live LP and a TV show.
* SINGLE: Si ricomincia/23, rue des lillas
1976
*SINGLE: Dal primo momento che ti ho vista/La mia boheme
1978
*LP "La faccia del mare" (The face of the sea), dedicated to Homer's Odyssey.
*SINGLE: La faccia del mare/Odyssea
1981
*LP "Passa lu tiempo e lu munno s'avota"
1983
*"Barnum", recording of the musical show with music by Cy Coleman
1988
*Return to Sanremo Song Festival, 1st prize with " Perdere l'amore"
*LP "Perdere l'amore"
*SINGLE: Perdere l'amore/Dove sta il poeta
*LP of the musical show "Rinaldo in campo".
*LP "Un giorno bellissimo" where he sings the theme song of TV show "Fantastico-Cinema"
1989
*LP "Da bambino a fantastico" (compilation)
1989
*LP "Un giorno bellissimo"
1990
*LP "Rose rosse" (compilation)
1990
*LP "Vent'anni" (compilation)
1992
* Sanremo "Ti penso"
* LP "Ti penso"
* SINGLE: Ti penso/La notte
1995
* Sanremo with "La vestaglia"
* CD "Ranieri".
* He becomes artistic director of the City of Sorrento Festival.
1997
* Sanremo, with Gianni Togni's ‘Ti parlerò d'amore'
* CD "Canzoni in corso", a selection of songs by various Italian composers
1999
*CD "Hollywood ritratto di un divo" (double CD, from the musical show)
2001
*CD "Oggi o dimane" The start of a collaboration with Mauro Pagani and the revisiting of the great classics of Neapolitan song.
*"Oggi o dimane", theatrical tour of the concert show (his first after 25 years)
2003
*CD "Nun è acqua"
*"Nun è acqua", concert show and tour
2004
*CD "Ranieri canta Napoli" (double CD, with the previous two)
*CD "Les Parisiens", soundtrack of the film trilogy, with music by Francis Lai
2005
*CD "Accussì grande", 3rd collaboration with Mauro Pagani
*"Accussì grande", concert show and tour
2006
*CD "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni"(double CD for his 40 years of singing career)
2007
*"Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni!" a nationwide tour which lasted for more than 2 years
*"Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni!" live DVD which topped the charts for 27 weeks and became platinum in 2009
2008
*CD "Gold Edition Massimo Ranieri" a triple album containing a live with Neapolitan songs, the best of the double CD "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni!" and the CD "Canzoni in Corso" un omaggio ai cantautori contemporanei.
2009
*CD "Napoli...Viaggio in Italia" (album)
2011
*Sanremo, a talking and singing show of reminiscences with Gianni Morandi (you can find parts of it on YouTube)
*"Canto perché non so nuotare...da 500 repliche". 500th show
*"Threepenny Opera" di Bertolt Brecht".
*Recital: "Chi nun tene coraggio nun se cocca ch' 'e femmene belle".
2012
*"Raffaele Viviani varietà" directed by Maurizio Scaparro.
2013
*"Canto perché non so nuotare...da 500 repliche". 700th show at the Coliseum Theatre in Turin.
* CD "Sogno e Son Desto" Live
Filmography
Films
Television
Theatre (actor)
*1976 – "Napoli: chi resta e chi parte" a show comprised by two one-act plays by Raffaele Viviani ("Caffè di notte e giorno" e "Scalo marittimo") directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi and shown at the Spoleto "
Festival dei due mondi
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".
:"In memoria di una signora amica" a comedy by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, directed by Mario Ferrero,with Pupella Maggio and Lilla Brignone.
*1977 – "The Waltz of the Dogs" by Leonid N. Andreyev, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, with Romolo Valli.
*1978 – "
The imaginary invalid
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" by Molière directed by Giorgio De Lullo.
*1979 – "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare, directed by Giorgio De Lullo, with Monica Guerritore
*1980 – "
The Good Person of Szechwan
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" by
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...
directed by
Giorgio Strehler
Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director.
Biography
Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ...
with Andrea Johansson, Renato De Carmine. At the Teatro Comunale di Milano, and then in a European tour which lasted two years.
*1983 – "Barnum", a musical by Mark Bramble directed by Buddy Schwab and Ennio Coltorti, with music by Cy Coleman, with Ottavia Piccolo.
*1986 – "Varietà", directed by Maurizio Scaparro, with Marisa Merlini, Galeazzo Benti and Arturo Brachetti.
*1987 – "Pulcinella" by Manlio Santanelli (taken from a screenplay by Roberto Rossellini), directed by Maurizio Scaparro.
*1988 – "Rinaldo in campo", musical comedy written by
Domenico Modugno
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, directed by Garinei and Giovannini.
*1990–91 – "Pulcinella" reprise
*1991–92 – "Liolà" by
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello (; 28 June 1867 – 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays. He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his almost magical power ...
directed by Maurizio Scaparro, with Carlo Croccolo and with original music by
Nicola Piovani
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*1993 – "Teatro Excelsior" directed by Maurizio Scaparro with original music by Antonio Sinagra.
*1994 – "
L'Île des esclaves
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" (The Island of Slaves) by Marivaux, directed by Giorgio Strehler, with Pamela Villoresi, Philippe Leroy and Laura Marinoni, music by Fiorenzo Carpi.
*1996 – "Le mille e una notte" directed by Maurizio Scaparro, with Laura del Sol.
*1998 – "Hollywood-Ritratto di un divo", musical by Gianni Togni e Guido Morra, on the love between John Gilbert and Greta Garbo directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
*2000 – "Il Grande Campione", by
Maurizio Fabrizio
Maurizio Fabrizio (born 16 March 1952) is an Italian composer, conductor, arranger, producer, musician and singer-songwriter.
Life and career
Born in Milan, after studying at the conservatory in 1969 Fabrizio became a member of the La Scala orc ...
and Guido Morra, directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, the love story between the boxer Marcel Cerdan and Edith Piaf
*2007 – He is the narrator voice in "Peter and the Wolf" in a concert with the Solisti Veneti, conducted by Claudio Scimone.
*2009 – "Polvere di Baghdad" directed by Maurizio Scaparro, his goodbye production as head of the Theatre Sector of the Venice Biennale. Written by Scaparro, together with the poet Adonis and journalist Massimo Nava, it links today's Baghdad with its mythical status as the locus of the 2001 Nights. Ranieri is a storyteller who, from the distant past, is catapulted into today's ruined city.
Directing (Theatre and Opera)
*2004 – "
Cavalleria Rusticana
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" opera by
Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece '' Cavalleria rusticana'' caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the ...
and "
I Pagliacci
''Pagliacci'' (; literal translation, "Clowns") is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who ...
" by
Ruggero Leoncavallo
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at the Opera Arena Sferisterio in the city of Macerata.
*2005 – "
L'Elisir d'amore
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" opera by Donizetti at the Teatro di San Carlo of Naples.
*2006 – "
La Traviata
''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on '' La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his ow ...
" opera by
Giuseppe Verdi
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Daniel Oren
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Biography
Daniel Oren was born in Jaffa, Israel. His paternal grandfather, a Muslim from the prominent Sikseck family who was married to a Jewish woman, rescued Jews ...
.
*2007 – "La Traviata" at the Tirana National Opera House and at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.
*2008 – "
La Cenerentola
' ('' Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant'') is an operatic ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera ''Cendrillon'' ...
" opera by
Gioacchino Rossini
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at the Teatro Verdi in Teramo
:"Poveri ma belli" a musical taken from the film by Dino Risi, with music by Gianni Togni. With Bianca Guaccero, Antonello Angiolillo and Michele Carfora.
*2009 – "Versi e diversi", a new show written in collaboration with Gualtiero Peirce, at the Ravello Festival.
Books
*2007 – "Mia madre non-voleva" (with Gualtiero Peirce, published by Rizzoli), autobiography
*2021 – "Tutti i sogni ancora in volo" (published by Rizzoli), autobiography
Awards
*1970 – "David di Donatello" and "Premio Internazionale della Critica" awards for "Metello".
*1972 – National prize "I numeri 1", Radio Montecarlo Prize for popularity.
*1973 – Telegatto "Vota la voce" (Rank the voice) as Best male singer.
*1984 – "Positano Top" award for "Barnum".
*1974 – "Gran simpatico" prize .
*1987 – Taormina Arte Award.
*1999 – Ennio Flaiano Award for the Theatre
*2005 – Premio Barocco and the Premio Sirmione Catullo as Artist of the Year
:Premio Nuova Spoleto per L'Arte e lo Spettacolo.
*2008 – De Sica Award for the Theatre, presented by the President of the Republic Mr. Napolitano.
:"Volere Volare, Il meglio del Made in Italy" award, as public person of the year
:"La Pigna d'oro" award for his whole career.
*2009 – Burlamacco d'Oro".
:Special Jury Prize of the Festival of Busto Arsizio for the film "L'ultimo Pulcinella" which also was awarded the Best Director prize.
:Premio Flaiano (2nd time).