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Un Po' Artista Un Po' No
''Un po' artista un po' no'' is a studio album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1980 on his label Clan. After the success of his previous-year's album '' Soli'', Celentano decided not to change a winning team. All the songs on ''Un po' artista un po' no'' are composed by Toto Cutugno, with lyrics by Cristiano Minellono Cristiano Minellono (born 27 March 1946) is an Italian songwriter and actor. He is also known as Popi Minellono. Life and career Born in Arona, Piedmont, Minellono debuted as a lyricist in 1967, with the song "È ancora giorno", performed by Shi .... The song " L'italiano" could have been included on this Celentano's album. Cutugno offered him the song. The album's cover features a photo of Celentano with young Pamela Prati. Track listing Charts References {{Authority control Adriano Celentano albums 1980 albums ... [...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] |
Clan Celentano
Clan Celentano is an Italian record label founded by Adriano Celentano in the early 1960s. Artists who have recorded for the label include Don Backy, Fred Bongusto, Milena Cantù, Adriano Celentano, Maria Luigia Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts, Ola & the Janglers, Valeria Rigano, Anthony Swete and Johnny Tame. Background In 1962, Adriano Celentano left SAAR and formed the Clan Celentano record label. Founded in March that year, the label set about finding new artists. The first releases were Italian the version of the Gene McDaniels' song, " Tower of Strength" ("Stai Lontana Da Me") and "Sei Rimasta Sola". Both records were Top 20 chart successes. The label originally rejected a singer called Agaton. They weren't interested in his recorded music either. But, Milena Cantù who was Adriano Celentano's current girlfriend wanted to hear the recordings again. As a result, they signed him up and gave him a new stage name of Don Backy. He would later have issues with the label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Me, Live!
''Me, live!'' is the first live album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1979 on his label Clan. Overview The album was recorded on 7 August 1977 at the Stadio Dino Manuzzi in Cesena Cesena (; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy; and - with Forlì - is the capital of the Province of Forlì-Cesena. Served by Autostrada A14 (Italy), Autostrada A14, and located near the Apennine M ..., in front of an audience of about 30,000 people. In addition to songs, the album include all the spoken interludes by Celentano, including a comical and mostly mimicked sketch with drummer Gianni Dall'Aglio and the introduction of "Storia d'amore", with Celentano stumbling over his words. In 2000, it was reissued on CD under the title ''Il concerto di Adriano''. Until 2012 album '' Adriano Live'', it remained Celentano's only live album for over 30 years. Track listing References {{Authority control Adriano Celentano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deus (album)
''Deus'' is a studio album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1981 on his label Clan. The album consists entirely of covers of rock'n'roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and ... standards. It can be considered the first in the series of Celentano's albums using this concept — followed by '' I miei americani...'' (1984) and '' I miei americani... 2'' (1986). Track listing Charts References {{Authority control Adriano Celentano albums 1981 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soli (Adriano Celentano Album)
''Soli'' is the nineteenth studio album by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, released in 1979 through his own label, Clan Celentano Clan Celentano is an Italian record label founded by Adriano Celentano in the early 1960s. Artists who have recorded for the label include Don Backy, Fred Bongusto, Milena Cantù, Adriano Celentano, Maria Luigia Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts .... The album reached the second place in the Italian chart, and stayed in the top ten for twenty-four weeks. The title track from the album was also very popular, topping the Italian chart for five weeks in a row. The album was also released in many European countries, including France, Germany, Spain, and the USSR. Track listing Charts References External links * {{Authority control 1979 albums Adriano Celentano albums 1970s Italian-language albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Cutugno
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (; 7 July 1943 – 22 August 2023) was an Italian Italian popular music, pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide. Early life Toto Cutugno was born on 7 July 1943 in Tendola, a borough of Fosdinovo, Lunigiana, Tuscany, to a Sicilian sea marshal father from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and a housewife mother from Tuscany. Shortly after his birth the family moved to the nearby city of La Spezia, Liguria. Career Cutug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristiano Minellono
Cristiano Minellono (born 27 March 1946) is an Italian songwriter and actor. He is also known as Popi Minellono. Life and career Born in Arona, Piedmont, Minellono debuted as a lyricist in 1967, with the song "È ancora giorno", performed by Shirley Bassey. In 1968 he got his first successes, Patrick Samson's "Soli si muore" and Dik Dik's " Il primo giorno di primavera". After further hits for Umberto Balsamo, Nomadi and Wess & Dori Ghezzi, in 1980 he started a fruitful collaboration as producer and lyricist with Toto Cutugno and Adriano Celentano, notably writing the lyrics for Cutugno's major hit " L'Italiano".Antonio Virgilio Savona; Michele L. Straniero. "Minellono, Cristiano". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. In the first half of the 1980s, Minellono was the usual lyricist for Al Bano and Romina Power's and Ricchi e Poveri's songs, contributing to relaunching their careers. Two of his songs won the Sanremo Music Festiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'italiano
"L'Italiano" (; "The Italian") is a pop song by Italian singer Toto Cutugno, released in 1983. It was his biggest international hit and is his best-known composition. Its popularity declined during the 1990s and was re-discovered when Cutugno performed it live at a charity concert in Rome commemorating Italy's victory at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, creating a new wave of popularity for the song. Background Cutugno composed the song following a concert in Toronto, which inspired him to write a song dedicated to Italian emigrants. The lyrics were written by his close collaborator of the time Cristiano Minellono, who got the initial inspiration for it from the title of a Canale 5 program of the time, '' Buongiorno Italia''. Initially titled "Con quegli occhi di italiano" ('With those Italian eyes'), the song was originally intended for Adriano Celentano, who turned it down. Cutugno then thought of having the popular impersonator Gigi Sabani sing it in a Celentano's impersonation, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Prati
Pamela Prati (until 2016 as Paola Pireddu; born 26 November 1958) is an Italian television personality, actress, and former model. She has appeared in many television variety shows and in erotic comedies. She has hosted several programmes for Mediaset's Canale 5, including ''Scherzi a Parte'' and ''La sai l'ultima?''. She is also credited as Pamela Field in some of her pictures. Career Little is known about Prati's early life. She maintains that she was born from a Spanish flamenco dancer that later abandoned her Italian mother in Ozieri in the province of Sassari, northern Sardinia; however the Italian tabloid ''Chi'' has alleged that her father was in fact an Italian womanizer known as "Piscittu Murtu" (dead fish). She moved to Rome in her late teens where she worked as a model and made a brief appearance on television in the variety show ''La Sberla'' in 1976. Prati attracted much publicity when she appeared on the cover of singer Adriano Celentano's album ''Un po' artista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Tempo Se Ne Va
"Il tempo se ne va" is a song by Italian singer Adriano Celentano from his 1980 album ''Un po' artista un po' no''. It was composed by Toto Cutugno (music), Cristiano Minellono and Claudia Mori (lyrics). The song is dedicated to Celentano's daughter Rosita. Background The idea for the song came from Cristiano Minellono, who, with the collaboration of Celentano's wife Claudia Mori, crafted the lyrics on the basis of Celentano's relationship with his daughter Rosita, then 14 years old. Celentano was so emotionally affected by the lyrics that for years he chose not to perform it. Celentano had initially planned to release the song only in Germany before deciding otherwise; he eventually recorded a German-language version of the song titled "Es bleibt die Zeit für keinen steh'n". Reception The song spent three weeks at number two in Switzerland, prevented from rising higher by Lipps, Inc.'s "Funkytown "Funkytown" is a song by American disco-funk group Lipps Inc., written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
