Ornella Vanoni

Ornella Vanoni born 22 September 1934 is an Italian singersongwriter and actress She is one of the longeststanding Italian artists having started performing in 1956 She has released about 112 works between LP EPs and greatest hits albums and is considered one of the most popular interpreters of Italian pop music During her long career she has sold over 65 million records Vanoni started her artistic career in 1960 as a theatre actress She mostly performed in Bertolt Brecht works under the direction of Giorgio Strehler at his Piccolo Teatro in Milan At the same time she started a music career The folklore and popular songs she explored in her early records especially the ones about the criminal underworld in Milan resulted in her receiving the nickname cantante della mala Underworld Singer for singing Milanese songs on that genre Vanoni scored two major hits in 1963 with Senza Fine and Che cosa cè both written for her by Gino Paoli In 1964 she won the Festival of Neapolitan song with Tu si na cosa grande In the following years she took part in a series of Festivals of Italian song in San Remo with the songs Abbracciami forte 1965 Io ti darò di più 1966 La musica è finita 1967 Casa Bianca 1968 and Eternità 1970 Casa Bianca which finished second in 1968 was the subject of a copyright dispute between the composer of the song Don Backy and the Clan Celentano label In the late 1960s Vanoni recorded Una ragione di più Unora sola ti vorrei Lappuntamento a cover of the Brazilian song Sentado à Beira do Caminho by Erasmo Carlos and Roberto Carlos and Non Dirmi Niente a cover of Burt Bacharachs Dont Make Me Over In 1972 she sang Quei giorni insieme a te the theme from Lucio Fulcis critically acclaimed mystery thriller film Dont Torture a Duckling In 1976 Vanoni collaborated with Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho on the song La voglia la pazzia lincoscienza e lallegria During the 1980s she released Ricetta di donna Uomini and Ti lascio una canzone with Gino Paoli In 1989 she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival with the song Io come farò In 1999 she recorded Alberi a duet with Enzo Gragnaniello In 2004 she released an album of duets with Paoli to celebrate her 70th birthday In addition to her music career Ornella Vanoni was active in other creative fields starring in stage and TV shows movies In January 1977 she posed nude for the Italian edition of Playboy magazine and requested a statute by her long time friend the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro as payment The inclusion of her song LAppuntamento 1970 in the soundtrack of Steven Soderberghs Oceans Twelve in 2004 sparked a worldwide renewal of interest in her music Source Article Ornella Vanoni from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30