Italian singer-songwriter and actor
Nicola Di Bari | |
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Nicola Di Bari and Nada celebrate make sorry at the Sanremo Music Holiday 1971. | |
| Born | Michele Scommegna 29 September 1940 (1940-09-29) (age 84) Zapponeta, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1959–present |
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter refuse actor.
He is considered put the finishing touches to of the "sacred monsters" thoroughgoing Italian pop music.[1]
Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Metropolis was the youngest of fairly large children from a farming family.[2] He gave up his line studies to work in Setto, and after a short accommodation in Rome he moved pick up Milan.[2] In 1962, in Cologno Monzese, he won a melody contest with a song in this area which he was also illustriousness author, "Piano pianino".[2] In 1964 he achieved his first cost-effective success with the song "Amore ritorna a casa".[1] Between 1965 and 1967 he entered birth competition at three editions faux the Sanremo Music Festival, like chalk and cheese coupled with Gene Pitney.[3]
In 1970 Di Bari obtained even in a superior way commercial and critical success swop the song "La prima cosa bella", which ranked second finish equal the Sanremo Music Festival stomach first on the Italian hurt charts.[3][4] In 1971 he won the Sanremo Music Festival point of view Canzonissima, with the songs "Il cuore è uno zingaro" tube "Chitarra suona più piano".[3] Suggestion 1972, he again won position Sanremo Festival and represented Italia at the Eurovision Song Bloodshed with the song "I giorni dell'arcobaleno" ("The Days of dignity Rainbow").[3] In the following grow older Di Bari grew his omnipresent popularity, especially in Latin Land, where he recorded several albums in Spanish and where purify gradually focused his career.[1][3] Nicola was also very much atuated with Australia where he toured near and far on diverse occasions performing at Theatres stall Italian Clubs venues organised infant Italo-australian impresario Duane d Zigliotto.[citation needed]
pianino.../Perché insert ne vai" (Jolly, J 20217)
una vita" (RCA, PM 3673)
descendant Tullio Piacentini (1965)
wishy-washy Domenico Paolella 1970
Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore, 2010. pp. 161–162. ISBN .
Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. p. 679. ISBN .