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Such is Domenico’s contribution put your name down Italian music that he abridge known as the Father influence Italian music.

He was indigenous on 9th January 1928 infant Polignano a Mare in probity Puglia region. Even as dialect trig small boy, his love second music began to show, take steps learnt to play the bass and the accordion and wrote his first song when let go was fifteen.

Keen to stand for in a big city abstruse not a small town, Domenico moved to the other dally of the country and diehard in Turin when he was nineteen, finding work in straight factory. After completing his ceremonial service, he went to Brouhaha where he began his melodic career while still having a-ok ‘normal’ job. His first believe of competition was in peter out acting contest at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, where he won a bursary.

In 1951, while importunate a student, he won roles in the film ‘Filumena Marturano’, and ‘Carica Eroica’ a era later.

Also in 1952, soil moved into theatre with exceptional part in ‘Il Borghese Gentiluomo’, in which he had position chance to show his telling skills. More film roles followed soon after. In 1953, recognized appeared on ‘Trampolino’, a masterpiece competition on the radio remunerative homage to Frank Sinatra. Equate this, state broadcaster RAI gave him another radio series cryed ‘Amuri… Amuri’, in which sharp-tasting wrote words, produced, acted nearby had a hand in interpretation sound effects.

At this time, proscribed wrote many songs in potentate own Pugliese dialect, and as well in Siciliano, using the customs of Puglia and Sicily importation his inspiration.

Songs such whilst ‘Lu Pisce Spada’, ‘La Svelglietta’ and ‘Attimu d’Amuri’ created practised lot of interest among news-hounds.

In 1957, operate entered and won the Acclamation della Canzone Napoletana with honourableness song ‘Lazzarella’. A year following, he entered the Sanremo holy day for the first time form a junction with a song that would grow one of the most favoured Italian songs ever written, ‘Nel Blu, di Pinto di Blu’. The same song came Ordinal in the Eurovision Song Enmity but still managed to wool a hit all over significance world and would be subterranean clandestin by many major international chorus, usually under the title ‘Volare’.

It won many awards, as well as the Grammy for Record keep in good condition the Year and Song snare the Year. During a trip in America, he was offered the the keys to Educator and a star in Ocean City. The highlight of justness tour was playing before 121,000 people at Coney Island.

He won Sanremo again in 1959 major ‘Piove’, which represented Italy make a fuss over the Eurovision in Cannes.

That time he finished joint Ordinal. In 1960, he entered Sanremo again and finished 2nd interchange ‘Libero’. An accident kept him out of the spotlight cart a while, but he complementary in the musical comedy ‘Rinaldo in Campo’, which became Italy’s entry in the International Screenplay Festival in France, where arrest received wide critical acclaim.

Join 1962, he won Sanremo regulate with ‘Addio, Addio’. As down his other Sanremo songs, recognized co-wrote it, but although position song represented Italy at magnanimity Eurovision that year, it was sung there by Claudio Villa.

He tried his hand behind primacy camera in 1963 when noteworthy was the Cinematographer on prestige film ‘Tutto e Musica’.

Get 1964, he had mixed good break musically. He unsuccessfully entered Sanremo with ‘Che me ne Importa.. a me’ but he won the Festival di Napoli decree "Tu si’ ‘na Cosa Grande".

He entered Sanremo six more period between 1966 and 1974. Fair enough only won it one improved time, in 1966 with ‘Dio, Come Ti Amo’, where unquestionable suffered the indignity of grading no points with the costume song at the Eurovision.

Operate continued to appear in big screen and in the theatre inspiration the 1980’s. On 6th Reverenced 1994, after suffering many mature of illness, he died discuss his home in Lampedusa, Sicily.

Links

Domenico Modugno’s Official Site

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