Edoardo Vianello
{{Short description|Italian singer, composer and actor}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Edoardo Vianello
| image = Edoardo Vianello.jpg
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| caption = Vianello in the 1970s
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|6|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rome, Italy
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| occupation = Singer, composer, actor
| years active = 1956–present
| height = {{convert|1.65|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| spouse = {{plainlist|
- {{marriage|Wilma Goich|1967|1981|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Vania Muccioli|1991|1998|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Elfrida Ismolli|2006}}
}}
| children = 2
}}
Edoardo Vianello (born 24 June 1938) is an Italian singer, composer and actor, considered one of the most popular Italian singers of the 1960s.{{cite book|last=Marcello Giannotti|title=L'enciclopedia di Sanremo|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2005}}
Career
Born in Rome, Vianello started his career in 1956.{{cite book|title=Dizionario Completo Della: Canzone Italiana|date=8 October 2010 |publisher=Giunti Editore|isbn=978-88-09-75625-0}} His first successes came in 1961, with "Il capello" ("The Hair") and "Pinne fucile ed occhiali" ("Fins, rifle, and glasses"), which both charted up to the 2nd position in the Italian Hit Parade.{{cite book|last=Dario Salvatori|title=Storia dell'Hit Parade|publisher=Gramese, 1989}}
Vianello had several successes in the 1960s, such as "Guarda come dondolo" ("Watch How I swing"), "Abbronzatissima" ("Very Tanned"), "O mio signore" ("Oh My Lord") which topped the charts, and "I Watussi" which went up to 3rd. After a less successful period, he re-launched his career in the 1970s, founding the duo Vianella with his wife Wilma Goich. Their main hit of the period was "Semo gente de borgata" ("We Are People from a Small Town") that reached #7. In the late 1970s, he reprised his solo career.
As of 2006, songs of Vianello were included in the soundtracks of 64 films{{cite news|last1=Stefano Micocci|title=Cinquanta, ma non li dimostra|issue=1|newspaper=VivaVerdi|date=January 2006|pages=33–36}} while the Italian rights-collecting agency SIAE estimates sales of over 65 million Vianello records worldwide.{{cite news|last=Michele Bugliari|title=Edoardo Vianello si racconta a Venezia: formidabili quei miei anni|url=http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2010/11/01/news/edoardo-vianello-si-racconta-a-venezia-formidabili-quei-miei-anni-1.1212387|accessdate=27 February 2012|newspaper=Il Mattino|date=1 November 2010|archive-date=21 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021100157/http://mattinopadova.gelocal.it/cronaca/2010/11/01/news/edoardo-vianello-si-racconta-a-venezia-formidabili-quei-miei-anni-1.1212387|url-status=dead}}
References
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Further reading
- Enzo Giannelli. Edoardo Vianello. Il Re Mida dell'estate. Armando Curcio Editore, 2009. {{ISBN|8895695070}}.
External links
- [http://www.edoardovianello.com/ Official site]
- {{IMDb name|0895709}}
- [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Edoardo+Vianello Edoardo Vianello] at Discogs
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Category:20th-century Italian male actors
Category:Italian male singer-songwriters
Category:20th-century Italian singer-songwriters
Category:20th-century Italian male singers