Maledetta noia franco califano biography
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Tessuto Musicale Tessuto Musicale - musical diversion for weddings and events
A MANO A MANO Rino Gaetano
A MODO TUO Elisa
A SKY Congested OF STARS Coldplay
A TE Jovanotti
A Episperm IN GIU Pino Daniele
ABBRACCIAME Andrea Sannino
ACQUA AZZURRA ACQUA CHIARA Lucio Battisti
ACQUA E SALE Mina & Celentano
ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME Coldplay
AGUA Extent BEBER Antonio Carlos Jobim
AHI MARIA Rino Gaetano
AIN'T NO SUNSHINE Bill Withers
ALBACHIARA Vasco Rossi
ALGHERO Giuni Russo
ALIBI Jordan Mackampa
ALL I KNOW Goldstone
ALL Slapdash LONG Lionel Richie
ALL OF ME Billie Holiday
ALL Invite ME John Legend
ALL'1 E 35 CIRCA Vinicio Capossela
AMARSI UN PO Lucio Battisti
AMORE DISPERATO Nada
ANCORA Eduardo De Crescenzo
ANCOTA TU Lucio Battisti
ANEMA E CORE Roberto Murolo
ANEMA Liken NOTTE Tropico
ANGELINA, ZOOMA ZOOMA Louis Prima
ANGELS Robbie Williams
ANNA Compare MARCO Lucio Dalla
ANOTHER DAY Buckshot LeFonque
APPUNTAMENTO AL LUNGOMARE Napoleone
ARIANNA Esseho
ARSENICO Aiello
AS Stevie Wonder
ATTENTION Charlie Puth
AZZURRO Adriano Celentano
BACIAMI PICCINA Quartetto Cetra
BAILA Sensuous THING Zucchero
BALLA BALLA BALLERINO Lucio Dalla
BALLA, SCIOLGO LE TRECCE AI CAVALLI Umberto Balsamo
BALLIAMO SUL MONDO Luciano Ligabue
BARATTO Renato Zero
BARBARA ANN Beach Boys
BE LO
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Sanremo Music Festival
Italian song contest
For the most recent edition, see Sanremo Music Festival 2025.
The Sanremo Music Festival (Italian: Festival di Sanremo[ˈfɛstivaldisanˈrɛːmo,festiˈval-]), officially the Italian Song Festival (Italian: Festival della canzone italiana), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by Italian public broadcaster RAI.[1][2][3][4] It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level (making it one of the world's longest-running television programmes)[5] and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest.[6][7]
Unlike other awards in Italy, the Sanremo Music Festival is a competition for new songs, not an award to previous successes (like the Premio regia televisiva [it] for television, the Premio Ubu [it] for stage performances, and the Premio David di Donatello for motion pictures).
The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, held between 29 and 31 January 1951, was broadcast by RAI's radio station Rete Rossa, and its only three participants were Nilla Pizzi, Achille
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(Tripoli, 1938 – Rome, 2013)
By Berenice Cocciolillo (John Cabot University, Rome)
The Beginnings
Singer-songwriter Franco Califano was known for his sense of adventure ever since he came into the world in 1938 on an airplane, in the skies above Libya, which was then Italian territory. His birth forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in Tripoli. When World War II broke out, his family left Libya and returned to Italy, first near Naples and later to Rome. It was in Rome, the place he considered home, that he was given the nickname “Caliph,” both to poke fun at his last name and because of his reputation as a Latin lover who was always surrounded by women. He was also known as the “Maestro” and the “Prévert of Trastevere.”
Considered one of Italy’s most original singer-songwriters, during his career Califano published 32 albums, sold over 20 million records, and wrote over 1,000 songs and poems, in addition to numerous lyrics that became hits for other artists. He collaborated with such artists as Mia Martini, Patty Pravo, Mina, Iva Zanicchi, Ornella Vanoni, Edoardo Vianello, Peppino di Capri, Ricchi e Poveri, Renato Zero, Loretta Goggi, and Toto Cutugno.
His first lyrics were for the song “E la chiama