Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer, songwriter, musician, and televisio presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide.
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. He is considered the first Italian cantautore.
Enzo Ghinazzi, best known as Pupo, is an Italian singer, lyricist, television presenter, writer and voice actor.
Adionilla Pizzi, known by her stage name Nilla Pizzi, was an Italian singer and actress.
Domenica Rita Adriana Bertè, known professionally as Mia Martini, was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.
Riccardo Cocciante, also known in French-speaking countries and the United States as Richard Cocciante, is an Italian and French singer and songwriter.
Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer.
Luigi "Gigi" D'Alessio is an Italian popular singer and singer-songwriter from Naples. In his career, he has sold over 26 million records.
Giorgio Guidi, known professionally as Johnny Dorelli, is an Italian actor, singer and television host.
"Pour toi Arménie" is a 1989 song written and composed by Charles Aznavour, and recorded by a group of French singers who were popular at the time. This charity single was intended to raise funds to help the Armenians who experienced the 1988 Spitak earthquake. It sold more than 1 million copies under the Trema-EMI label.
Karim was an Italian record label active from 1960 to 1966, when it closed.
This Is My Life (La vita) is a 1968 album by Shirley Bassey that was released in Italy on the United Artists label (UA 9035).
Alberto Testa was an Italianbrasilian composer, lyricist, singer, and writer for television.
Raffaele Gualazzi, better known as Raphael Gualazzi, is an Italian singer and pianist. He was born in Urbino.
Antonio Diodato, known simply as Diodato, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the 70th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Fai rumore" and was scheduled to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, before the event's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
The Sanremo Music Festival 1988, officially the 38th Italian Song Festival, was the 38th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia, between 24 and 27 February 1988 and broadcast by Rai 1.
Ermal Meta is an Italian singer and songwriter.
Mimmo Politanò, pseudonym of Domenico Politanò, is an Italian singer-songwriter, writer, painter and radio host.
Francesca Cavallin is an Italian television, stage and film actress.
