Italian singer
Ornella Vanoni | |
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Vanoni in concert in the s | |
| Born | () 22 September (age&#;90) |
| Origin | Milan, Italy |
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| Discography | Ornella Vanoni discography |
| Years active | –present |
Musical artist
Ornella VanoniOMRI (Italian pronunciation:[orˈnɛllavaˈnoːni]; born 22 September ) is an Italian singer. She is one of the longest-standing Italian artists, having started performing in She has released about 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.[1]
Vanoni started her artistic career in 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.[citation needed]
Vanoni scored two major hits in with "Senza Fine" and "Che cosa c'è", both written for her by Gino Paoli. In 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 Sanremo with the songs "Abbracciami forte" (), "Io ti darò di più" (), "La musica è finita" (), "Casa Bianca" (), and "Eternità" (). "Casa Bianca", which finished second in , was the subject of a copyright dispute between the composer of the song, Don Backy, and the Clan Celentano label.[citation needed]
In the late s, Vanoni recorded "Una ragione di più", "Un'ora sola ti vorrei", "L'appuntamento" (a cover of the Brazilian song "Sentado à Beira do Caminho" by Erasmo Carlos and Roberto Carlos)[2] and "Non Dirmi Niente", a cover of Burt Bacharach's "Don't Make Me Over". In she sang "Quei giorni insieme a te", the theme from Lucio Fulci's critically acclaimed mystery thriller film Don't Torture a Duckling.[citation needed]
In , Vanoni collaborated with Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho on the song "La voglia, la pazzia, l'incoscienza e l'allegria". During the s, she released "Ricetta di donna", "Uomini", and "Ti lascio una canzone" (with Gino Paoli). In , she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Io come farò". In , she recorded "Alberi", a duet with Enzo Gragnaniello. In she released an album of duets with Paoli to celebrate her 70th birthday.[3]
In addition to her music career, Ornella Vanoni was active in other creative fields, starring in stage and TV shows, movies. In January she posed nude for the Italian edition of Playboy magazine and requested a statuette by her long time friend the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro as payment. [4] The inclusion of her song "L'Appuntamento" () in the soundtrack of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve in sparked a worldwide renewal of interest in her music. The soundtrack of the Danish film Toscana (, Netflix) also featured the song.[5]
Vanoni is Protestant.[6]
Main article: Ornella Vanoni discography