The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival currently hosted by Amadeus, is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest.
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Gaetano "Nino" D'Angelo is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, television personality, film director, screenwriter and author.
"Nel blu, dipinto di blu", popularly known as "Volare", is a song originally recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno. Written by Modugno and Franco Migliacci, it was released as a single on 1 February 1958.
Al Bano and Romina Power are an Italian-American pop music duo formed in 1975 by then-married couple Italian tenor Albano Carrisi and American singer Romina Power, the daughter of Hollywood actor Tyrone Power. They have recorded over 22 albums, which have sold in 150 million copies across six decades. Their best known international hits include "Felicità", "Sharazan", "Tu, soltanto tu ", "Ci sarà", "Sempre sempre", and "Libertà!". They participated twice in Eurovision Song Contest in 1976 and 1985 and performed five times at Sanremo Music Festival, winning in 1984 with the song "Ci sarà". The couple also shot seven films, based on their songs, between 1967 and 1984. The two separated in 1999 and divorced in 2012, but reunited professionally in 2013.
Albano Antonio Carrisi, better known as Al Bano, is an Italian tenor and actor. Having sold over 25 million records globally and career spanning seven decades, he is one of the most recognisable Italian singers in the world. He has gained worldwide notability due to his four and a half octave vocal range as well as his personal and professional association with Romina Power, daughter of Hollywood actor Tyrone Power, lasting until the 1990s. Carrisi is acclaimed for singing with operatic affinity in pop, rock and italo disco repertoires with extensive head voice and minimal usage of falsetto vocal register. As of 2023, he has participated in 15 editions of the Sanremo Music Festival, tying the record for most participations with Anna Oxa, Milva, Peppino di Capri and Toto Cutugno; this includes a victory in 1984 duetting with Power. He additionally took part in the Sanremo Giovani selection in 1965.
Irene Grandi is an Italian singer-songwriter.
"Non siamo soli" is a single by Eros Ramazzotti with Latin singer Ricky Martin, who sang it exclusively in Italian. The song, the first single from the greatest hits of Eros Ramazzotti, e², has a second Spanish-language version, "No Estamos Solos".
This is the discography of Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti. Since 1984, Ramazzotti has released 13 studio albums including one EP, four international compilation albums, three live albums as well as 37 singles, all of which have charted noticeably high in many European countries as well as in South and Central America. Ramazzotti has sold over 60 million records in his 30 years of career. The Italian star has done duets with several prestigious artists such as Cher, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Patsy Kensit, Anastacia, Joe Cocker, Luciano Pavarotti, Laura Pausini, and Ricky Martin.
Nuovi eroi is the second album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, produced by Piero Cassano and released in 1986 on the BMG label.
In ogni senso is the fifth album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, produced by Piero Cassano and released on April 10, 1990, on the BMG label. In ogni senso topped the Italian Albums chart and was Ramazzotti's most successful album internationally to that point, also reaching #2 in Europe's second-largest music sales market, Germany. Backing vocals on several tracks were recorded in London with renowned English-based session singers including Jimmy Helms, Katie Kissoon, Carol Kenyon and Tessa Niles.
Eros is the first greatest hits album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, released in 1997 on the BMG label. Of the album's 16 tracks, five are original recordings, nine re-recordings and two new tracks. Two of the re-recorded tracks are duets; "Musica è" featuring Andrea Bocelli and "Cose della vita " with Tina Turner. Eros topped the albums chart in six countries.
The Sanremo Music Festival 2006, officially the 56th Italian Song Festival, was the 56th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia, between late February and early March 2006 and broadcast by Rai 1.
The Sanremo Music Festival 1984, officially the 34th Italian Song Festival, was the 34th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia, between 2 and 4 February 1984 and broadcast by Rai 1.
Alessandro Pizzamiglio, best known as Alessandro Bono, was an Italian singer-songwriter.
Enrico Nigiotti is an Italian singer-songwriter. After signing a recording deal with Sugar Music, he released his debut single, "Addio", in 2008. Between 2009 and 2010, he was a contestant in the ninth series of Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi. He decided to leave the competition to avoid an elimination round against his then-girlfriend, dancer Elena D'Amario. His eponymous extended play was released by Sugar on 26 March 2010, and entered the top 50 of the FIMI Italian Albums Chart.
Piero Cassano is an Italian keyboardist, singer and composer, a founding member of the Genoan band Matia Bazar.
Adelio Cogliati was an Italian lyricist and record producer.
"Terra promessa" is a 1984 song composed by Eros Ramazzotti, Renato Brioschi and Alberto Salerno, arranged by Celso Valli and performed by Eros Ramazzotti. With this song Ramazzotti won the newcomers competition at the 34th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival. Originally supposed to be performed by Alessandro Bono, it marked Ramazzotti's breakout and his first commercial success. Mia Martini served as backing vocalist in the studio version of the song. In 1997, Ramazzotti covered the song in Spanish with the title "Tierra prometida".
"Una storia importante" is a 1985 song composed by Eros Ramazzotti, Piero Cassano and Adelio Cogliati, arranged by Celso Valli and performed by Eros Ramazzotti. With this song Ramazzotti returned at the Sanremo Music Festival after winning the newcomers competition the previous year; the song placed only sixth, but was the most commercially successful among the competing entries. The single sold over one million copies, notably selling over 625,000 copies in France.
