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Tintarella Di Luna
''Tintarella di luna'' is the debut studio album by Italian singer Mina. It was released in March 1960, by Italdisc. Despite the fact that the songs contained on the album have previously been released on various singles and EPs, it is considered not a compilation album, but a debut album in the official discography of the singer. Content This album contains tracks with which Mina has achieved success in the Italian charts. First of all, it is " Tintarella di luna", the first major hit, as well as " Folle banderuola". Another bright spot of the album was the song "È vero", with which she participated in the Sanremo Music Festival 1960 The Sanremo Music Festival 1960 (), officially the 10th Italian Song Festival (), was the tenth annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 28 and 30 January 1960, and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented b ... and received widespread critical acclaim. It should also be noted, among other things, the trac ... [...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] |
Daisy Lumini
Desy Lumini, best known as Daisy Lumini (18 August 1936 – 18 August 1993), was an Italian composer, singer and stage actress. Born in Florence, at young age Lumini graduated in piano and composition, and began her career as a composer of soundtracks and songs; she later came to fame by participating in numerous Italian television shows. Lumini, who spoke five languages fluently, during her career also toured in the United States (where she participated at ''The Perry Como Show'' and sang at Carnegie Hall), France and Germany. In the sixties, after a brief period in the cabaret, she devoted herself to the research and the diffusion of Tuscan folk music, recording many albums with the popular repertoire and put it on shows with the stage company of Beppe Chierici. After working in contemporary musical theater, in the eighties Lumini started a successful collaboration with Salvatore Sciarrino, winning the Prix Italia Award in 1985. In 1993, the day of her birthday, she died by sui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Debut Albums
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the Jian'an Era, during the reign of the Xian Emperor of the Han. * The Xian Emperor returns to wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed ''Il Molleggiato'' ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical success. With around 150 million records sold worldwide, he is List of estimated best-selling Italian music artists, the second best-selling Italian musical artist. Often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in collaboration with others. Due to his prolific career, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the pillars of Music of Italy, Italian music. Celentano is recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business and is credited for having introduced rock and roll to Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 films, mostly comedies. Early life Celentano was born on 6 January 1938 in Milan, Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piero Vivarelli
Piero Vivarelli (26 February 1927 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist. Vivarelli was born in Siena. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of Yugoslav Partisans, Vivarelli joined the Republic of Salò as a young volunteer of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and for a short time was a member of the Italian Social Movement.Giuliana Rotondi. "Trapassati alla storia: Piero Vivarelli". ''Focus Storia'' n. 49. November 2010. p. 26. Later, from 1949 through the 1990s, he was a member of the Italian Communist Party, and was also the only Italian to receive the Communist Party of Cuba's membership card from Fidel Castro. Mainly active in genre films, he is regarded as a key figure in the '' musicarello'' genre. He was also active as a lyricist of pop songs such as " 24.000 baci", and several hits popularized by Adriano Celentano Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci (; 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including Commedia all'italiana, comedies and spaghetti Westerns, he garnered an international cult following for his ''giallo'' and horror films. His most notable films include the Gates of Hell trilogy, ''Gates of Hell'' trilogy—''City of the Living Dead'' (1980), ''The Beyond (1981 film), The Beyond'' (1981), and ''The House by the Cemetery'' (1981)—as well as ''Massacre Time'' (1966), ''One on Top of the Other'' (1969), ''Beatrice Cenci (1969 film), Beatrice Cenci'' (1969), ''A Lizard in a Woman's Skin'' (1971), ''Don't Torture a Duckling'' (1972), ''White Fang (1973 film), White Fang'' (1973), ''Four of the Apocalypse'' (1975), ''Sette note in nero'' (1977), ''Zombi 2'' (1979), ''Contraband (1980 film), Contraband'' (1980), ''The New York Ripper'' (1982), ''Murder Rock'' (1984), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Chiosso
Leo Matteo Chiosso (; 8 August 1920 – 26 November 2006) was an Italian lyricist mostly known for his work with Fred Buscaglione. They formed a songwriting duo who produced about forty songs and created Buscaglione's public persona, a humorous tough guy with a penchant for whisky and women. Career Chiosso and Buscaglione met in 1938 in the night-club scene of Turin, hometown to both of them. At that time, Chiosso was a university student, while Buscaglione made a living as a jazz singer and musician in the clubs. During World War II, Chiosso was deported to Poland, while Buscaglione ended up in a US internment camp in Sardinia. Chiosso received news of his friend's fate thanks to the radio; Buscaglione had joined the allied radio station orchestra in Cagliari, and Chiosso knew he was still alive when he heard him playing. Chiosso and Buscaglione reunited in Turin after the end of the war, and started writing songs together. Chiosso's lyrics were inspired by the American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Migliacci
Francesco "Franco" Migliacci (; 28 October 1930 – 15 September 2023) was an Italian lyricist, producer, and actor. Biography Migliacci studied in Florence where his family had settled, here he entered in a competition for young players, in which he won a stay of three days to Cinecittà and a modest role in a film by Nino Taranto. After this, he moved to Rome and the world of cinema where he worked in small parts in about 18 films. In 1958, with Domenico Modugno, Migliacci co-authored the song "", also known as "", which has become one of the most well-known Italian songs in the world. While the words of the title, "in the blue, painted blue," seem to make no sense, they actually do when one understands the inspiration for the song came out of a wine fueled vision of Franco's combining his memory of two Marc Chagall paintings and himself painted blue with the ability to fly. Afterward, he worked in drama series for television and several radio plays. He was then the ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pino Massara
Pino Massara (24 April 1931 - 23 July 2013) was an Italian musician, composer, record producer and conductor. Born in Vigevano as Giuseppe Previde Massara, graduated in chemistry, from the university years he devoted himself to jazz music. Among his successful songs "Permette, signorina?", originally performed by Nicola Arigliano and later covered by Nat King Cole with the title "Cappuccina", "I Sing ammore" and "Grazie prego scusi", both recorded by several artists including Dean Martin, " Nel Sole", which sold over one million copies and launched the career of Al Bano, and "Siamo la coppia più bella del mondo", a duet between Adriano Celentano and Claudia Mori which was number one at the Italian hit parade for six weeks. In the seventies Massara founded "Bla Bla Records", an alternative recording company that produced the first works of Franco Battiato, Juri Camisasca and the avant-garde rock band Capsicum Red. References External links * Pino Massaraat Discogs D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vito Pallavicini
Vito Pallavicini (22 April 1924 – 16 August 2007) was an Italian lyricist. Biography Born in Vigevano, Pallavicini started his career as a journalist, founding in 1950 the local weekly magazine ''L'informatore vigevanese''.Giannelli, Enzo. "Pallavicini, Vito". Castaldo, Gino (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. pp. 1262-4. He made his professional debut as a lyricist in 1959 co-writing with Pino Massara the song "Amorevole" for Nicola Arigliano, and shortly later "Ghiaccio bollente" for Tony Dallara.Enrico Deregibus. "Vito Pallavicini". ''Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana''. Giunti Editore, 2010. . He got his first major hit in 1961, with Mina's " Le mille bolle blu". Pallavicini is well-known for his long professional associations with composers Pino Donaggio, with whom he composed Donaggio's signature song " Io che non vivo (senza te)", and Paolo Conte, with whom he co-wrote among other songs the hits "Tripoli '66" for Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nessuno
"Nessuno" ("Nobody") is a 1959 Italian song composed by Antonietta De Simone and Edilio Capotosti. The song premiered at the ninth edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, with a double performance by Wilma De Angelis and Betty Curtis, and placed at the eighth place. Ignored by the public in its original versions, the song got a large commercial success thanks to the rock'n'roll version recorded by Mina. Mina's version was performed in fortissimo and in a syncopated style, distorting the linearity of the original melody. This version of the song premiered at the Festival of Rock and Roll held at the Milan Ice Palace.Tato Crotti, Giovanni Bassi. ''Mina prima di Mina''. Rizzoli, 2007. . Thanks to the song Mina got her early television appearances, performing the song in the three most popular television shows of the time, '' Il Musichiere'', '' Lascia o raddoppia?'' and '' Canzonissima'', in the latter case in a duet with De Angelis. Mina also performed the song, in a slight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Bindi
Umberto Bindi (12 May 1932 – 23 May 2002) was an Italian singer-songwriter. He is especially known for the popular song he co-wrote with Gino Paoli, ''Il Mio Mondo'' (" You're My World"), which he recorded in Italian in 1963, and ''La musica è finita'' ("Our Song", recorded by Robert Plant on 45 rpm and then on album Sixty Six to Timbuktu) It was later performed by singers in English and other languages. Life and career Bindi was born in Bogliasco (Province of Genoa), Italy, and was classically trained. He wrote his first song, "T'ho perduto" ("I've Lost You"), in 1950. He made his professional debut in Italian popular music in 1959 with his composition, " Arrivederci". The song was recorded by Don Marino Barreto Jr., and soon became the best-selling single in Italy for that year. A cover version was recorded by Chet Baker in 1960 for the Italian film, ''Urlatori alla sbarra''. Bindi's first album, ''Umberto Bindi e le sue canzoni'', was released in 1960. Bindi also wrote a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
