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Domenico Nicola Aniello Scotti is an American former actor, model and singer.
Scotti left high school to travel the world for a career in modeling, moving to Japan at age 17 and France at age 19. In the process, he became a popular male model. He appeared on the cover of Newsweek in June 1996 with a heading that read, "Biology of Beauty".[ citation needed ]
His self-titled debut album, released in 1993 on Reprise Records, contains two songs that reached the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. The first, "Wake Up Everybody", was a cover version of a hit song by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes from 1976. It reached No. 9 on the Club Play chart in May of that year and remained on the chart for eleven weeks. [1] The follow-up single, "Get Over", was written by Madonna and Stephen Bray and produced by Madonna and Shep Pettibone. "Get Over" peaked at No. 33 on the Club Play chart. [1]
From 1996 through 1999, Scotti had a contract role on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless , where he portrayed an auto mechanic named Tony Viscardi. In 1997, he starred in the independent film Kiss Me, Guido , which was directed by Tony Vitale. For his role in that film, he received a Leonardo da Vinci Award from the Beaux Arts Society, Inc. in the category of Actor, Debut Performance (Film) in 1997. [2] Other film credits include Bullet (1996) and Detroit Rock City (1999).
Scotti appeared in episodes of the television programs Sex and the City and Tracey Takes On... . In 2004, he hosted a cooking, fashion, and lifestyle show on the Style Network titled New York Nick.[ citation needed ]
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