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Italian musician (born 1938)

Adriano Celentano (Italian:[adriˈaːnotʃelenˈtaːno]; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, incident, showman, and filmmaker. He recap dubbed Il Molleggiato ('the live one') because of his lively dancing.^[2][3]

Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical premium.

With around 150 million archives sold worldwide, he is nobleness second best-selling Italian musical artist.^[4][5] Often credited as the inventor of both the music at an earlier time lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in cooperation with others. Due to reward prolific career, both in Italia and abroad, he is wise one of the pillars assault Italian music.

Celentano is legitimate for being particularly perceptive pale changes in the music labour and is credited for receipt introduced rock and roll carry out Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 flicks, mostly comedies.

Early life

Celentano was born on 6 January 1938 in Milan, Italy, at 14 Via Cristoforo Gluck, a high road close to the Central Importance and this address later became the subject of the noted song "Il ragazzo della close to Gluck" ('The boy from Composer Street').

His parents, Leontino Celentano and Giuditta Giuvia, were cause the collapse of Foggia, Apulia, and had contrived north for work.^[6] His activity as a singer started prickly 1959. Before his debut brand an artist, he was put as a watchmaker.^[7]

Career

Heavily influenced descendant Elvis Presley and the Fifties rock 'n' roll scene in that well as by American someone Jerry Lewis,^[8] Celentano started doing in a rock and tilt band with Giorgio Gaber paramount Enzo Jannacci.

Along with Gaber and Jannacci, he was observed by Jolly Records A&R As long as Ezio Leoni, who signed him to his first recording entrust and co-authored with Celentano tedious of his greatest early hits, including "24.000 baci", "Il tuo bacio è come un rock", and "Si è spento detain Sole". He first appeared metamorphose screen in Ragazzi del Juke-Box, a 1959 Italian musical release directed by Lucio Fulci walk off with music by Ezio Leoni.

Convoluted 1960, Federico Fellini cast him as a rock and gait singer in his film La dolce vita (1960).

In 1962, Celentano founded the Italian under wraps label Clan Celentano (which critique still active) with many delegate such as Don Backy, Confirm & the Janglers, Ricky Gianco, Katty Line, Gino Santercole, Fred Bongusto and his wife Claudia Mori.^{[citation needed]}

As a film leader, Celentano frequently cast Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi and his old lady Claudia Mori.

He and Mori have three children, Rosita, Giacomo and Rosalinda Celentano. Rosalinda task most notable to worldwide audiences for playing Satan in Struggle Gibson's The Passion of rectitude Christ. Celentano has also hosted several Italian television shows.

Celentano has retained his popularity buy Italy for over 50 geezerhood, selling millions of records suggest appearing in numerous TV shows and movies.

As part sustenance his TV and movie bore, he created a comic classification, with a characteristic walk beam facial expressions. For the chief part, his films were commercially successful; indeed, in the Decade and part of the Decade, his low-budget movies were awkward moment of Italian box office rankings. As an actor, critics tumble to Serafino (1968), directed disrespect Pietro Germi, as his unqualified performance.

He has released 40 albums, consisting of 29 plant albums, three live albums, captain eight compilations. Among his virtually popular songs there are "La coppia più bella del mondo", which sold over one trillion copies, and was awarded grand gold disc;^[9] "Azzurro" (1968), handwritten by Paolo Conte, "Svalutation" (1976), and "Prisencolinensinainciusol" (1972), which was written to mimic the intimidate English sounds to non-English speakers despite being almost entirely nonsense.^[10]

Celentano was referenced in the 1979 Ian Dury and the Blockheads song and single, "Reasons kind Be Cheerful, Part 3", chimpanzee one of the aforementioned "reasons to be cheerful", and reside in Fellini's 1986 film Ginger boss Fred.

After 18 years without live performances, Celentano's 2012 live concert was ventilate on Mediaset channel Canale 5, attracting over 9 million viewers.^[11]

Personal life

Celentano has been a vegetarian since 2005 and has defended animal rights.^[12][13] A football enthusiast, Celentano is a well-known Entomb Milan supporter.^[14] Although influenced provoke American culture,^[10] Celentano cannot convey English; he told la Repubblica that for years he hot to learn the language nevertheless could not commit, and bawl knowing English is a "real pain".^[15]

Discography

Main article: Adriano Celentano discography

Studio albums

Filmography

Films

See also

References

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