ROME (ITALPRESS) – Ornella Vanoni has died at the age of 91 years. “It is with deep sorrow that we received the news of the death of Ornella Vanoni. Thank you for everything you have given us Ornella, we will always keep her in our hearts” we read in X’s profile “Che tempo che fa”, a program on which he was a frequent guest.
Born in Milan, considered one of the greatest interpreters of Italian pop music, he is one of the Italian artists with the longest career. She started working in 1956 (as an actress in “Six Characters in Search of an Author” by Luigi Pirandello after studying at the “Academy of Dramatic Arts” of Giorgio Strehler’s Piccolo Teatro, where she was a student and favorite companion). In 1957 he made his singing debut with “canzoni della mala”, songs that took inspiration from ancient dialect ballads and told stories of policemen and criminals. After his debut, unique and sophisticated, allowed him to traverse a repertoire that included auteur pop, bossa nova (remember the album “Desire, madness, unconsciousness, joy” made with Toquinho and Vinicius de Moraes) and jazz that led him to collaborate with musicians of the caliber of George Benson, Michael Brecker and Randy Brecker, just to name a few, and sell more than 55 million records with his 112 published works, including albums, EPs and collections, with the author. who bear the names Dario Fo, Paolo Conte, Fabrizio De Andrè, Ivano Fossati, Lucio Dalla, Franco Califano, Mogol, Renato Zero and Riccardo Cocciante.
In 1960 Vanoni met Gino Paoli with whom a strong love line parallel to artistic collaboration was born: let’s call it the unforgettable “Senza fine”. Despite her love for Paoli, the singer married theater impresario Lucio Ardenzi with whom she separated even before her son Cristiano was born. It is no coincidence that his first 45 commercial success was “Cercami” dedicated to Paoli. While her theatrical commitments also continued (among others, she was Rosetta in Garinei and Giovannini’s “Rugantino”), her first participation (of eight) at the Sanremo Festival came: in 1965, with “Abbracciami forte”. They were followed in 1966 (“Io ti darò di più”), in 1967 (“La musica è finite”), in 1968 (“Casa bianca”), in 1970 (“Eternità”), in 1989 (“Io come fare”), in 1999 (“Alberi”, with Enzo Gragnaniello) and in 2018 (“Learning to love yourself”, with Bungaro and Pacific). Apart from all the Festivals, his greatest recording successes were others: “Unareasonimore” (1969), “L’avventura” (1970), “Tomorrow is another day” (1971), “Più” (1976, with Gepy).
Then there was television, where Vanoni was involved for many years as a presenter, prima donna or regular guest: from “Giardino d’inverno” to “Studio Uno”, from “Senza rete” to “Serata d’onore”, from Fatti e fatticci” to “Risatissima”. He was also a judge on “Star Academy” and “Amici Celebrities”. In his sixty years of career, there is no shortage of cinema from Sergio Remo’s first “Romolo e” by Sergio Corbucci in 1961 to the final “7 women and the mystery” by Alessandro Genovesi in 2021. We also saw him in the drama “Il mulino del Po” by Sandro Bolchi and, as a cameo, in the Rai1 drama “La Compagnia del Cigno” by Ivan Cotroneo. Among the awards presented to Ornella Vanoni were three from Club Tenco (two Awards and one Plaque) and the Lunezia Award twice.
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