Teddy Reno

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Teddy Reno
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Reno in 1957
Born (1926-07-11) 11 July 1926 (age 97)
NationalityItalian
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • actor
Years active1945–1975
2007–2016
Spouse
(m. 1968)

Teddy Reno (born 11 July 1926) is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

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Life and career

Born in Trieste as Ferruccio Merk Ricordi, Reno made his debut on Radio Trieste during the Anglo-American administration of the city, launching the song "Eterno ritornello (Te vojo ben)". [1] He later entered as a singer the orchestra of Teddy Foster, with whom he toured across Europe and North Africa. [2] In 1948, he founded one of Italy's first record companies, CGD (i.e. Compagnia Generale del Disco), which he later sold to Ladislao Sugar, a publisher of Hungarian origin and future owner of the Sugar Group. [3] [4] [5] He enjoyed a great degree of success as a singer in the 1950s. In the 1960s, he focused his career on discovering and producing new talents, mainly through the Festival degli sconosciuti (Festival of the Unknowns) which he created in 1961. [2] [3] Some of Reno's discoveries at the Festival include The Rokes, Dino and Rita Pavone, whom he married in 1968. [2] [3]

Reno was also active as a film and stage actor and a television and radio presenter. [3]

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  2. 1 2 3 Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. Catalogo dei viventi. Marsilio, 2009. ISBN   978-88-317-9599-9.
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  5. Mark Worden. "Sugarmusic Turns 70". Billboard . Vol. 115, Num. 3, p.23, 18 January 2003. ISSN   0006-2510.