Rosario Di Bella (born 27 July 1963) is an Italian composer, singer-songwriter, music arranger and musician.

Background

Born in

Zafferana Etnea Zafferana Etnea (; ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located about southeast of Palermo and about north of Catania. The municipality of Zafferana Etnea contains the ''frazioni ...

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, the son of a trumpeter, Di Bella spent much of his childhood in

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. At just eight years old he started playing guitar, and shortly later he began studying piano. He studied medicine at the

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. After a long period spent traveling around the world and playing with groups and formations from different backgrounds, in 1987 he participated at the Castrocaro Music Festival, winning the competition with the song "Sono interessante". The first album, ''Pittore Di Me Stesso'', was released in 1989, obtaining good reviews from critics. In 1991, he debuted at the

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, as a member of a trio consisting of himself, Marco Conidi and

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; their song "E noi qui" was a commercial success. He came back in Sanremo Festival as a soloist two years later, with the song "E io che non volevo". In 1995, he got his major commercial success with the song "Difficile amarsi". Since 2001, he has focused on composing, writing among others for

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and

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Discography

* 1989 – ''Pittore di me stesso'' * 1991 – ''Figlio perfetto'' * 1995 – ''Esperanto'' * 2000 – ''I miei amici'' * 2001 – ''Rosario Di Bella'' (collection) * 2004 – ''Made in Italy'' (collection) * 2007 – ''Il negozio della solitudine'' * 2016 – ''Spirituality'' (in couple with Juri Camisasca)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Bella, Rosario 1963 births Living people People from Zafferana Etnea Italian male singer-songwriters 20th-century Italian singer-songwriters 21st-century Italian singer-songwriters Italian pop singers 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century male composers 21st-century Italian composers Italian male composers Italian music arrangers Musicians from the Metropolitan City of Catania