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Parole, Parole
"Parole parole" (; ) is a duet song originally performed by Italian singer Mina and actor Alberto Lupo. It was released in April 1972, by PDU and later was included on Minas's twenty-first studio album '' Cinquemilaquarantatre'' (1972). The song was written by Gianni Ferrio, Leo Chiosso and . In 1973, Dalida and Alain Delon recorded the song in French as "Paroles, paroles", which became an international hit and a standard in France. Original version The lyrics were written by Leo Chiosso and Giancarlo Del Re, the authors of the Italian ''Teatro 10'' series of TV variety nights. The music and the score were by Gianni Ferrio, the conductor of the ''Teatro 10'' orchestra. In spring 1972, the song was the closing number of all eight of the ''Teatro 10'' Saturday nights. The song is an easy listening dialogue of Mina's singing with Alberto Lupo's spoken declamation. The song's theme are hollow words. It intertwines the female singer's lamentation of the end of love and the lies she h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina (Italian Singer)
Mina Anna Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an Feminism, emancipated woman. In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her the most versatile pop singer in Music of Italy, Italian music. With over 150 million records sold worldwide, she is List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists, the best-selling Italian musical artist, as well as one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Mina dominated the country's charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored Mina discography, 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lupita D'Alessio
Guadalupe Contreras Ramos (born 10 March 1954), better known as Lupita D'Alessio (), is a Mexican singer and actress. She is nicknamed "La Leona Dormida" (title of one of her List of signature songs, signature songs, "The sleeping lioness"). Biography She started her career in showbusiness with her father Poncho D'Alessio, who had a musical show called ''La Familia D'Alessio'' on a Tijuana television station. She then moved to Mexico City and released a single "Mi Corazón es un Gitano", a cover of the Italian song "Il Cuore è Uno Zingaro" which won the Sanremo Music Festival, both in 1971. Then she was selected to perform the theme song of the telenovela of Televisa titled ''Mundo de juguete''. She was invited to take roles on ''Ana del Aire'' and other productions in the 1970s and 1980s. Lupita sang the title song of telenovela ''Pacto de Amor'', where she also acted. In 1978, she won the Mexican national final to select the country's entrant in the OTI Festival 1978, sevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Rabal
Francisco Rabal Valera (8 March 1926 – 29 August 2001), popularly known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor. His career spanned more than 200 film and television roles, between 1942 and 2001. He received numerous accolades both in Spain and abroad, the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award and the Goya Award for Best Actor. Rabal was best known internationally for his collaborations with director Luis Buñuel, with Ronald Bergan writing "most of his other major roles he carried the heady, perverse whiff of the great surrealist director with him." He worked with many other notable directors, including Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodóvar, William Friedkin, Michelangelo Antonioni, Claude Chabrol, Luchino Visconti, and Gillo Pontecorvo. One of Spain's most-loved and acclaimed actors during his lifetime, he also was known for his commitment to human rights and other social causes. Early life Rabal was born in Águilas, a town in the south-western part of the province of Murcia. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Sevilla
María del Carmen García Galisteo (16 October 1930 – 27 June 2023), known professionally as Carmen Sevilla, was a Spanish actress, singer, and dancer. She began her career in the 1940s and became one of the most popular and highest paid stars of Spanish cinema until the 1970s. In 1991, at the age of sixty, she began her career as a television presenter, working for the three major Spanish networks until her retirement in 2010. At the time of her death, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. As an actress, she had leading roles in numerous films, including '' Imperial Violets'' (1952), Academy Award nominee '' Vengeance'' (1958), ''Don Juan'' (1956), and '' Searching for Monica'' (1962). She also had supporting roles in English-language epic films including ''King of Kings'' (1961) and ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1972). As a singer she released over fifteen studio albums and numerous singles and compilations. Early life María del Carme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ágata
Agatha, also Agata, is a feminine given name derived from the Greek feminine name (''Agáthē''; alternative form: ''Agathḗ''), which is a nominalized form of (''agathḗ''), i.e. the feminine form of the adjective (''agathós'') "good". It was the name of St. Agatha of Sicily, a third-century Christian martyr. Rarely has the name been given in English-speaking countries during recent years. Agatha was last ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls born in the United States during the 1930s. “Agatha” is a common name in Greece and countries that speak Germanic languages. Russian name In Russian, the name "" (''Agata'') was borrowed from the Western European languages, and derives from the same Ancient Greek root from which older names AgafyaNikonov, p. 63 and AgafaPetrovsky, p. 38 also come. Its masculine version is Agat.Superanskaya p. 251 In 1924–1930, the name was included into various Soviet calendars,Superanskaya pp. 22 and 278 which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonicha
Tonicha (born Antónia de Jesus Montes Tonicha on 8 March 1946) is a Portuguese pop-folk singer. She represented Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971, with the song "Menina do alto da serra" ("Girl from the country mountain"); she finished ninth in a field of 18, with 83 points. She also represented her country in the OTI Festival 1972 in which she had better luck and finished sixth. Discography *Vários-Fala do Homem Nascido (Orfeu, 1972) *(LP, 1972) *Folclore (LP, Orfeu, 1973) SB-1066 *As Duas Faces de Tonicha (LP, Zip-Zip, 1974) *Canções de Abril (conjunto e coros) (LP, Discófilo, 1975) *Conjunto e Coros (Lp, Orfeu, 1975) *Cantigas do meu País (LP, Orfeu, 1975) *As Duas Faces de Tonicha (LP, Orfeu, 1975) *Cantigas Populares (LP, Orfeu, 1976) SB-1088 *Cantigas Duma Terra À Beira Mar (LP, Polygram, 1977) *Ela Por Ela (LP, Polygram, 1980) – reeditado em 1996 *Foliada Portuguesa (LP, Polygram, 1983) *Regresso (CD, Polygram, 1993) *Canções d' Aquém e D'Além T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raul Cortez
Raul Christiano Machado Cortez (; 28 August 1932 – 18 July 2006) was a Brazilian stage, television, and film actor, director and producer. Cortez died of pancreatic cancer in 2006, aged 73. Filmography *''O Pão Que o Diabo Amassou'' (1957) *'' The Obsessed of Catule'' (1965) - Joaquim *''Cristo de Lama'' (1966) *'' Case of the Naves Brothers'' (1967) - Joaquim Naves *''O Anjo Assassino'' (1967) - Victor *''O Homem Que Comprou o Mundo'' (1968) *''Desesperato'' (1968) *''Capitu'' (1969) - Escobar *'' Brazil Year 2000'' (1969) - Man who protests *''Tempo de Violência'' (1969) *''Toninho on the Rocks'' (1970, TV Series) *''Beto Rockfeller'' (1970) *'' A Arte de Amar Bem'' (1970) - Ronaldo (segment "A Inconfidência de Ser Esposa") *'' Roberto Carlos a 300 Quilômetros por Hora'' (1971) - Rodolfo *''A Infidelidade ao Alcance de Todos'' (1972) - (segment "Tuba, A") *''Vitória Bonelli'' (1972, TV Series) - Jaime Bonelli *''Janaina - A Virgem Proibida'' (1972) - Raul *''A Volta de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maysa Matarazzo
Maysa Figueira Monjardim (June 6, 1936 – January 22, 1977), better known as Maysa Matarazzo, was a Brazilian singer-songwriter, performer and actress. She is also associated with Bossa nova music but is widely known as a torch song (''fossa'') interpreter. Biography The daughter of Alcibíades Guaraná Monjardim and Inah Figueira, Matarazzo showed talent at a young age and by twelve had written a samba song, which later became a hit from her first album. She married André Matarazzo Filho, a member of a wealthy and traditional São Paulo family, and descendant of Count Francesco Matarazzo in 1954 at the age of 18 and two years later had a son, Jayme, who later would become a television director. In the late 1950s she formed a successful bossa nova group. Her tour to Buenos Aires was a great success, and extended to Chile and Uruguay, but Matarazzo had an affair with the show's producer, Ronaldo Bôscoli, a journalist and composer linked romantically to bossa nova's mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIMI
The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) or the Federation of the Italian Music Industry is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy. It was established in 1992, when major corporate labels left the previously existing Associazione dei Fonografici Italiani (AFI). During the following years, most of the remaining Italian record labels left AFI to join the new organisation. As of 2011, FIMI represents 2,500 companies operating in the music business. FIMI is a member of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and of the Italian employers' federation, Confindustria. Its main purpose is to protect the interests of the Italian record industry. Starting in March 1995, the Italian Music Industry Federation began providing the Italian official albums chart. In January 1997, FIMI also became the provider of the Italian official singles chart. Due to the decrease of CD singles sales in Italy, FI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todavía (album)
''Todavía'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina (Italian singer), Mina, released on 21 September 2007 by PDU (record label), PDU. The album features 13 songs in Spanish and one in Portuguese, and includes seven duets with Latin-American, Spanish and Italian stars. Track listing Personnel Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications and sales References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Zanetti
Javier Adelmar Zanetti (, ; born 10 August 1973) is an Argentine former professional footballer. Regarded as one of the greatest right-backs of all time, Zanetti is well known for having dedicated almost his entire career at Inter Milan, having a key role in the treble-winning 2009–10 season. Zanetti was known for his versatility as well as his adeptness on both the left and right wing, having played mostly as a full-back or wing-back on both flanks, but also spending considerable time as a midfielder. He is currently the vice-president of Inter Milan. Zanetti started his career in Argentina, first with Talleres, and then Banfield. From 1995 to 2014 he played for Italian club Inter Milan and was captain from 2001 until his retirement in 2014.He started wearing the captain band in late 1999, but at that time he was replacing the injured Ronaldo. Source: Having participated in 1,115 official games, he is on the list of men's footballers with the most official appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
