Sandro Giacobbe (born 14 December 1949) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
Life and career
Born in
Genova
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in 1949, Giacobbe started his career in the early 1970s and got his first success in 1974, with the song "Signora mia", which entered the top-ten on the Italian hit parade.
For about a decade, he got several major hits, usually consisting in romantic ballads characterized by intimate and sometimes malicious tones.
His song ""El Jardín Prohibido", the Spanish-language version of "Il giardino proibito", peaked on first place at the Spanish hit parade in 1976.
The same year, he entered the main competition 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 ...
, ranking third with the song "Gli occhi di tua madre";
the song reached the second place on the Italian hit parade.
His last major hit was the 1982 song "Sarà la nostalgia".
From the mid-1980s he mainly devoted his career to live concerts and to initiatives of solidarity.
In 2003 he ranked second at the
Viña del Mar International Song Festival
The Viña del Mar International Song Festival () is an annual international music festival held every third week of February in Viña del Mar, Chile. Started in 1960 it is the oldest and largest music festival in Latin America, and one of the long ...
.
Discography
; Album
* 1974: ''Signora mia''
* 1975: ''Il giardino proibito''
* 1976: ''Metto all'asta... ''
* 1977: ''Bimba ''
* 1978: ''Lenti a contatto ''
* 1979: ''Mi va che ci sei ''
* 1980: ''Notte senza di te''
* 1990: ''Io vorrei ''
* 1991:'' Sulla mia stessa strada ''
* 1992: ''Le donne ''
* 1994: ''E venti.... ''
* 1998: ''Il meglio ''
* 2007: ''Vuoi ballare''
* 2008:'' Trentacinque''
* 2013: ''Insieme noi''
References
External links
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Sandro Giacobbeat
Discogs
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1951 births
Living people
Singers from Genoa
Italian pop singers
20th-century Italian composers
20th-century male composers
21st-century Italian composers
Italian male composers
Italian male singer-songwriters
20th-century Italian singer-songwriters
21st-century Italian singer-songwriters
20th-century Italian male singers
21st-century Italian male singers
Spanish-language singers of Italy
People of Sicilian descent
People of Lucanian descent