Viola Valentino

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Viola Valentino born July 1 1952 as Virginia Minnetti is an Italiansinger Virginia Minnetti was born in 1952 She started her career as a singer in 1968 under the name Virginia and later began to sing with her then husband in a duet named Renzo amp Virginia Some time later Virginia was noticed by Giancarlo Lucariello a producer of the Italian rock band Pooh It was he who created an image of a sexy but delicate woman for her as well as her manner to sing with a subdued voice In 1979 Virginia starts singing under the name Viola Valentino Her first song Comprami Buy Me made her famous and was sold in a great number of copies in Italy and Spain In 1980 Viola sings two other songs that also become hits Sei una bomba You Are a Bomb and Anche noi facciamo pace We Will Make Peace Too In the same year her first album Cinema Cinema comes out In 1982 Viola Valentino takes part in Festival di Sanremo for the first time with the song Romantici Romantic which also became a hit In the same year her second album In primo piano In the Foreground and another hit Sola Alone comes out At that time Viola Valentino was in the zenith of her fame and was invited to act in the film Delitto sullautostrada A Crime on a Highway In 1983 she takes part in Festival di Sanremo again with the song Arriva arriva Come Come Since then the public interest in Viola Valentino began to fade In the 1980s Viola acted in the films Due strani papà Two Strange Daddies 1983 and Le volpi della notte Night Foxes 1986 In 1986 Viola sings the song Il posto della luna The Place of the Moon which had moderate success In 1991 an album Un angelo dal cielo An Angel from Heaven came out which included the best songs by Viola Valentino For some time Viola Valentino was married to a wellknown Italian singer Riccardo Fogli which contributed to her popularity later however they divorced Two times Violas photos were cover photos of Playboy