Ornella Vanoni
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (May 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
Ornella Vanoni | |
---|---|
Background information | |
Birth name | Ornella Vanoni |
Born | 22 September 1934 |
Origin | Milan, Italy |
Genres | |
Occupation(s) |
|
Years active | 1960–present |
Ornella Vanoni OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [orˈnɛlla vaˈnoːni]; born 22 September 1934) is an Italian singer. She is one of the longest-standing Italian artists, having started performing in 1956. She has released about 112 works between LP, EPs and greatest hits albums, and is considered one of the most popular interpreters of Italian pop music. During her long career she has sold over 65 million records.[1]
Artistic career
Vanoni started her artistic career in 1960 as a theatre actress. She mostly performed in Bertolt Brecht works, under the direction of Giorgio Strehler at his Piccolo Teatro in Milan. At the same time, she started a music career. The folklore and popular songs she explored in her early records, especially the ones about the criminal underworld in Milan, resulted in her receiving the nickname cantante della mala ("Underworld Singer") for singing Milanese songs on that genre.[citation needed]
Vanoni scored two major hits in 1963 with "
In the late 1960s, Vanoni recorded "Una ragione di più", "Un'ora sola ti vorrei", "
In 1976, Vanoni collaborated with Vinicius de Moraes and Toquinho on the song "La voglia, la pazzia, l'incoscienza e l'allegria". During the 1980s, she released "Ricetta di donna", "Uomini", and "Ti lascio una canzone" (with Gino Paoli). In 1989, she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Io come farò". In 1999, she recorded "Alberi", a duet with Enzo Gragnaniello. In 2004 she released an album of duets with Paoli to celebrate her 70th birthday.[3]
In addition to her music career, Ornella Vanoni was active in other creative fields, starring in stage and TV shows, movies. In January 1977 she posed nude for the Italian edition of Playboy magazine and requested a statuette by her long time friend the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro as payment. [4] The inclusion of her song "L'Appuntamento" (1970) in the soundtrack of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Twelve in 2004 sparked a worldwide renewal of interest in her music.[5] The soundtrack of the Danish film Toscana (2022, Netflix) also featured the song.[6]
Discography
Filmography
ReferencesWikimedia Commons has media related to Ornella Vanoni. Much of the content of this article comes from the equivalent Italian-language Wikipedia article (retrieved 28 March 2006).
|