Danilo Rea is an Italian jazz pianist. He is a graduate of the Santa Cecilia music conservatory in Rome. He made his debut with the "Trio di Roma" in 1975.
Vito Pallavicini was an Italian lyricist.
Luca Carboni is an Italian singer-songwriter. He debuted in 1981 as guitarist in the band Teobaldi Rock, publishing his first solo album in 1984. He is also a painter and carpenter.
Enzo Gragnaniello is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer.
Chimera is a 1968 Italian musicarello comedy film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti. The title is a reference to the Gianni Morandi's eponymous hit song.
Beniamino Maggio was an Italian actor.
Cerasella is a 1959 Italian teen comedy film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo. It is loosely inspired by the lyrics of the song "Cerasella".
Giorgio Consolini was an Italian singer. In 1954, he won the Sanremo Music Festival in partnership with Gino Latilla, with the song "Tutte le mamme".
The Festival della Canzone Napoletana, commonly known as the Festival di Napoli, is a Neapolitan song contest. The first edition was held in 1952 and the last in 2004. From 1952 to 1970 the show was broadcast on RAI and from 1998 to 2004, in a differently spirited version, by Rete 4.
Renato Brioschi, also known as Renato dei Profeti, is an Italian singer, composer, musician and producer.
Liquirizia is a 1979 Italian teen comedy film written and directed by Salvatore Samperi and starring Christian De Sica, Barbara Bouchet, Jenny Tamburi, Teo Teocoli and Tino Schirinzi.
Luigi Albertelli was an Italian songwriter and television author.
Andrea Lo Vecchio was an Italian composer, lyricist, record producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur.
I Gufi was an Italian musical and comedy ensemble, mainly successful in the second half of the 1960s.
Gaetano Savio, better known as Totò Savio, was an Italian composer, lyricist, producer, guitarist and occasional singer.
Gloria Christian is an Italian Canzone Napoletana singer, mainly successful between the second half of the 1950s and the 1960s.
Mario Panzeri was an Italian lyricist and composer. He is well known for his composed songs that include "Maramao perché sei morto?" "Pippo non lo sa", "Lettera a Pinocchio", and "Grazie dei fiori", which won the first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1951.
Cesare Antoniolli was an Italian composer, arranger and orchestral director of popular music active during the 1900-1960 period. He composed music alongside notable lyricists, arranged music for major publishers, and directed his own orchestra backing popular singing stars on their recordings.
The orchestra was variously nominated as Orchestra Antoniolli, Orchestra da Ballo Antoniolli, Orchestra Melodica Napoletana Antoniolli and Orchestra Tropical Antoniolli. He played an important creative part in the survival and subsequent post-war rebirth, of Italy's popular music scene.
"Tintarella di luna" is a song recorded by Italian singer Mina. It was written by Bruno De Filippi, at the time a member of the group I Campioni, and Franco Migliacci. The song became the first major hit for the singer, reaching number three in the Italian chart, and its sales exceeded 200,000 copies.
Pietro "Piero" Soffici was an Italian composer, arranger and conductor.
