Rosanna Fratello (; born 26 March 1951) is an Italian singer and actress.

Biography and career

Rosanna Fratello was born in

San Severo San Severo (; formerly spelled Sansevero and previously known as San Severino; ; ) is a (municipality) of inhabitants in the province of Foggia, Apulia, Southern Italy. Rising on the foot of the spur of Gargano, San Severo adjoins the communes ...

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, and as a child she moved to

Cinisello Balsamo Cinisello Balsamo (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) of about 75,200 inhabitants in the Metropolitan City of Milan, in the Italian region of Lombardy, about northeast of Milan city center. Cinisello Balsamo borders the following municipalitie ...

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, where she has grown up. Rosanna emerged as singer in 1969, when she took part at the

Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by (RAI). It is the longest-running ...

with the song "Il treno" and obtained her first commercial success with the song "Non sono Maddalena". In 1971, she made her debut as actress with the film '' Sacco e Vanzetti''; for her performance she was awarded with a

Nastro d'Argento The (plural: ''Nastri d'Argento''; English: Silver Ribbon) is an Italian film award, held since 1946 by the ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani'' (Italian National Union of Film Journalists). Awards are given annually in ...

as best new actress. Her other roles were in the crime films '' The Black Hand'' (1973) and '' Cross Shot'' (1976). In 1972, she topped the Hit Parade with her major success, the song "Sono una donna, non sono una santa"; in the following years she experimented with various genres such as

disco music Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife, particularly in African-American, Italian-American, Gay and Latino communities. Its sound features four-on-the-floor ...

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and

Italo disco Italo disco (variously capitalized, and sometimes hyphenated as Italo-disco) is a music genre which originated in Italy in the late 1970s and was mainly produced in the 1980s. Italo disco evolved from the then-current underground dance, pop, ...

and competed in a number of Sanremo Festivals, but failed to repeat that success. In 1985, Fratello took part in the musical project "Ro Bo T" together with

Bobby Solo Roberto Satti (born 18 March 1945), known professionally as Bobby Solo, is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. Singing career In 1964, Solo participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song " Una lacrima sul viso" ("A Tear on your ...

and Little Tony. In 1994, she came back to the Sanremo Music Festival with the supergroup Squadra Italia. In 2023-2024, she participated in the seventeenth edition of ''

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'' (the Italian version of '' Big Brother''); as a result, her 1982 success "Se t'amo t'amo" (written by

Cristiano Malgioglio Giuseppe Cristiano Malgioglio (; born 23 April 1945) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and television personality. Over the course of his career, he published thirty studio albums, being appreciated as a songwriter in the 1970s and 1980s. Start ...

) has become popular again.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fratello, Rosanna Living people 1951 births Italian women singers People from San Severo Actresses from Apulia Italian film actresses Nastro d'Argento winners