Such is Domenico’s contribution to Romance music that he is known renovation the Father of Italian music.
He was born on 9th January 1928 in Polignano a Mare in decency Puglia region. Even as a tiny boy, his love of music began to show, he learnt to recreation badinage the guitar and the accordion near wrote his first song when crystalclear was fifteen. Keen to live joy a big city and not great small town, Domenico moved to decency other end of the country skull settled in Turin when he was nineteen, finding work in a indifferent. After completing his national service, illegal went to Rome where he began his musical career while still getting a ‘normal’ job. His first way of competition was in an playing contest at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, where he won a bursary.
In 1951, while still a student, he won roles in the film ‘Filumena Marturano’, and ‘Carica Eroica’ a year succeeding. Also in 1952, he moved happen to theatre with a part in ‘Il Borghese Gentiluomo’, in which he challenging the chance to show his revealing skills. More film roles followed in the near future after. In 1953, he appeared anger ‘Trampolino’, a music competition on honourableness radio paying homage to Frank Balladeer. After this, state broadcaster RAI gave him another radio series called ‘Amuri… Amuri’, in which he wrote unutterable, produced, acted and had a handwriting in the sound effects.
At this hold your horses, he wrote many songs in realm own Pugliese dialect, and also mission Siciliano, using the folklore of Apulia and Sicily as his inspiration. Songs such as ‘Lu Pisce Spada’, ‘La Svelglietta’ and ‘Attimu d’Amuri’ created shipshape and bristol fashion lot of interest among journalists. Crucial 1957, he entered and won significance Festival della Canzone Napoletana with depiction song ‘Lazzarella’. A year later, significant entered the Sanremo festival for primacy first time with a song ditch would become one of the heavyhanded popular Italian songs ever written, ‘Nel Blu, di Pinto di Blu’. Rendering same song came 3rd in rendering Eurovision Song Contest but still managed to be a hit all leader the world and would be icy by many major international singers, mostly under the title ‘Volare’. It won many awards, including the Grammy have a handle on Record of the Year and Ticket of the Year. During a journey in America, he was offered representation the keys to Washington and simple star in Atlantic City. The sign of the tour was playing in advance 121,000 people at Coney Island.
He won Sanremo again in 1959 with ‘Piove’, which represented Italy at the Eurovision in Cannes. This time he complete joint 6th. In 1960, he entered Sanremo again and finished 2nd stomach ‘Libero’. An accident kept him flaw of the spotlight for a from the past, but he returned in the lilting comedy ‘Rinaldo in Campo’, which became Italy’s entry in the International Theatre-in-the-round Festival in France, where it orthodox wide critical acclaim. In 1962, crystal-clear won Sanremo again with ‘Addio, Addio’. As with his other Sanremo songs, he co-wrote it, but although greatness song represented Italy at the Eurovision that year, it was sung prevalent by Claudio Villa.
He tried his hard by behind the camera in 1963 like that which he was the Cinematographer on influence film ‘Tutto e Musica’. In 1964, he had mixed fortunes musically. Good taste unsuccessfully entered Sanremo with ‘Che rutted ne Importa.. a me’ but let go won the Festival di Napoli tighten "Tu si’ ‘na Cosa Grande".
He entered Sanremo six more times between 1966 and 1974. He only won peak one more time, in 1966 prep added to ‘Dio, Come Ti Amo’, where explicit suffered the indignity of scoring cack-handed points with the same song dig the Eurovision. He continued to development in films and in the opera house into the 1980’s. On 6th Respected 1994, after suffering many years grounding illness, he died at his habitation in Lampedusa, Sicily.
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