In Italy, music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics. Italian music innovation – in musical scale, harmony, notation, and theatre – enabled the development of opera, in the late 16th century, and much of modern European classical music – such as the symphony and concerto – ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental classical music and popular music drawn from both native and imported sources.
Gaetano "Nino" D'Angelo is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, television personality, film director, screenwriter and author.
"Mambo Italiano" is a popular song written by Bob Merrill in 1954 for the American singer Rosemary Clooney. The song became a hit for Clooney, reaching the top ten on record charts in the US and France and No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1955. The song has shown enduring popularity, with several cover versions and appearances in numerous films.
Enzo Nini is a jazz saxophonist and flautist. He was born in San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples, Italy.
Giuseppe Daniele, known as Pino Daniele, was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. His influences covered a wide number of genres, including pop, blues, jazz, and Italian and Middle Eastern music.
Canzone napoletana, sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the love song and serenade. Many of the songs are about the nostalgic longing for Naples as it once was. The genre consists of a large body of composed popular music—such songs as "'O sole mio"; "Torna a Surriento"; "Funiculì, Funiculà"; "Santa Lucia" and others.
Stefano Bollani is an Italian composer, pianist and singer, also active as a writer and a television presenter.
Caterina Caselli is an Italian record producer, music executive, singer and bass player.
Vittorio Sodano (Victor) is an Italian make-up artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup for his work in Apocalypto (2006) and for Il divo (2010). Born in Naples on 1 September 1974, at age 16, in London, he began his work as a make-up artist as a sculptor and prosthodontist in a laboratory for film special effects. In 1996 he made his début in cinema with the film Prima che il tramonto (Before the Sunset) by Stefano Incerti, for which he won an award for make-up and special effects at the Locarno Film Festival. With considerable knowledge in the field of special effects make-up and application of prosthesis he began to assert himself in the Italian and European cinema, becoming a personal makeup artist of Italian's actresses Margherita Buy, Laura Morante, Mariangela Melato and Valeria Golino. In 2023 he worked as Make-up supervisor in the film Joachim and the Apocalypse by Jordan River.
Maurizio Zaccaro is an Italian film director, cinematographer, film editor, and screenwriter.
Pasqualina "Lina" Sastri is an Italian actress and singer.
Eugenio Bennato is an Italian folk musician and songwriter. He is the brother of the musician Edoardo Bennato.
Enzo Gragnaniello is an Italian singer-songwriter and composer.
Fiorenza Calogero is an Italian world music singer and actress from Naples, Italy.
Vincenzo Malepasso, best known as Enzo Malepasso, was an Italian composer, singer and record producer.
Gaetano "James" Senese is an Italian saxophonist, composer, and singer-songwriter.
Federica Victoria Johanna Caiozzo, known professionally as Thony, is an Italian singer and actress.
Corrado Rustici is an Italian musician, songwriter and producer.
Pippo Delbono is an Italian author, actor, and director.
The David di Donatello for Best Original Song is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI).
