Joe Sentieri

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Joe Sentieri in Caccia al marito (1960)

Rino Luigi Sentieri (3 March 1925 in Genoa – 27 March 2007 in Pescara), known professionally as Joe Sentieri, was an Italian singer and actor.

Career

His first success was the winning of the competition Canzonissima in 1959 with his version of the number one hit "Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)" by Domenico Modugno. In the same year he reached number two and number five in the Italian charts with "Ritroviamoci" and "Milioni di scintille". He won the third place with "Quando vien la sera" at the Sanremo Music Festival 1960. This song was number two in the Italian charts. Another top ten success was "È mezzanotte", which reached number eight.

Perhaps his internationally best known song is "Uno dei tanti". The song written by

Sylvester James, Luther Vandross and Shirley Bassey
.

Further songs which had an entry in the Italian charts were "Libellule" (1961), "Lei" (1961), "Cipria di sole" (1962), "Tobia" (1962), "Fermate il mondo (1963) and "Quando ci si vuol bene... (come noi)" (1963).

In the 1960s and the 1970s Sentieri was also seen in some films, e.g. in Howlers in the Dock (1960) with Adriano Celentano and in The Most Beautiful Wife (1970) with Ornella Muti.

Sentieri died from

cerebral hemorrhage in a hospital in Pescara
. He is survived by his wife Dora and two children.

Selected filmography

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