Massimo ranieri biography

Musical artist

Giovanni Calone (born 3 May 1951), known professionally as Massimo Ranieri, is finish Italian singer, actor, television donor and theatre director.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Ranieri was born in Borgo Santa Lucia, Naples, the fifth of blight children in the family.

Considering that he was 10, young Giovanni would sing at restaurants, marriage ceremony receptions, etc. He was ascertained by a music producer make longer four years later and was flown to New York interest record an EP under glory name of Gianni Rock.

Singing career

Calone recorded four songs amount 1964: "Tanti auguri signora", "Se mi aspetti stasera", "Non chiudere la porta", and "La major volta".

None of the annals were successful, primarily because potentate young voice was changing. Connect years later, he would come back under his new stage reputation, Massimo Ranieri. In 1966, grace made his TV debut melodic "Bene Mio". A year consequent, he made another TV presentation singing, "Pietà per chi ti ama". In 1968, he documented two more songs: "Da bambino", "Ma l'amore cos'è" and "Preghiera".

It was not until 1969 when he achieved success promote became a teen idol just as he sang "'O sole mio" on live TV. That much year, he had a loyal of hits: "Rita", "Se bruciasse la città", "Quando l'amore diventa poesia", "Il mio amore resta sempre", "Rose rosse" and "Zingara". In 1970, "Vent'anni", "Sogno d'amore", "Sei l'amore mio", "Aranjuez Amore Mio", and "Candida".

In 1971, Ranieri recorded the songs "Adagio Veneziano", "Via del Conservatorio", don "Io e Te". He correspond to Italy in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Hibernia, where he placed 5th mess up the song "L'amore è breed attimo". In 1972, he free the songs "Ti ruberei", "'O surdato 'nnammurato", and "Erba di casa mia"; in 1973, "Amo ancora lei".

He returned clobber the Eurovision Song Contest become absent-minded year, in Luxembourg, to put Italy with "Chi sarà trickery te", where he placed Thirteenth. In 1974, came the singles "Te voglio bene assaie", "Immagina", and "Per una donna".

In 1988, he made a counter to his singing career farm the song, "Perdere l'amore", which won the Sanremo Festival, make certain year.

In 1997, he required another comeback with "Ti parlerò d'amore".

In February 2007, without fear started a concert tour unredeemed Italy, titled "Canto perché non-so nuotare...da 40 anni" which lasted for more than two seniority, with more than 500 shows, was made into a / and a DVD, which went platinum.

In 2022, he won the Mia Martini critics bestow at Sanremo Festival.

In Dec 2024, he was announced significance one of the participants spontaneous the Sanremo Music Festival 2025.^[2]

Acting career

In 1970, Ranieri decided designate venture into acting. His partition debut, Metello received rave reviews from critics, and won him the David DiDonatello award sales rep best actor for portraying illustriousness title character.

He co-starred get used to Anna Magnani in the gentlemen of the press film La Sciantosa later mosey year.

In 1974, he filmed Salvo D'Acquisto, where he portray a carabiniere who was accomplished by the Nazis during Environment War II.

When his melodic career started to decline imprison 1975, Massimo concentrated on fillet acting career, both in character cinema and, most importantly, makeover a stage actor: he collaborated with the directors Mauro Bolognini, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Giorgio holiday Lullo, Giorgio Strehler and Maurizio Scaparro, performing a wide assembly of material from modern plays and musicals, to Molière dispatch Shakespeare.

In 1996, Ranieri wanting the speaking and the revealing voice of Quasimodo in magnanimity Italian-Language version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Oversight even reprised this role pustule the sequel.

In 2004, unquestionable starred in his first Sculpturer film, a trilogy series known as Les Parisiens, where he acted upon a street artist.

In 2005, he returned on the stratum with the show "Accussì Grande", after a long bout be equal with illness, from which he indeed recovered.

In 2007, he was in a docu-film called Civico 0, where explicit played Guilano, a fruit merchant, who becomes homeless after interpretation death of his mother. Put over 2008, he starred in nobleness film L'Ultimo Pulcinella.

In 2009, he played the storyteller bill the play, Polvere di Bagdad, directed by Maurizio Scaparro.

In 2010, Massimo was featured slot in Passione, a documentary about rendering history of music from Metropolis, Italy, directed by Italian-American thespian, John Turturro. In November 2010, he took part in glory miniseries remake of the exemplary play, Filumena Marturano, produced mass Italian TV RAI Uno, suggest itself Mariangela Melato in the term role.

Massimo portrayed Filumena's hoard, Domenico Soriano.

Other ventures

On 16 October 2002, Massimo Ranieri was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of magnanimity Food and Agriculture Organization be a devotee of the United Nations (FAO).^[3]

Personal life

Ranieri never married.

However, in 1971, he fathered a daughter, Cristiana, out of wedlock with Franca Sebastiani. He did not be endowed with anything to do with primacy raising of his daughter, adage that he was too sour and inexperienced for fatherhood, existing that it would be prejudicious to his career. He was never linked with any carefulness woman thereafter. He did plead for have any contact with monarch daughter until they met considering that she was about 20 length of existence old.

At the start govern 2007, he decided to direct acknowledge his long-estranged daughter, bear embraced her for the leading time on live TV. Bump into was a tearful reunion 'tween father and daughter.

He very became a grandfather in July 2011.^[4]

Discography

1964

• USA tour with Sergio Bruni
• SINGLE: Lassù qualcuno mi ama/Un ragazzo come me (as Gianni Rock)
• SINGLE: Preghiera/Una bocca, due occhi e un nome (as Gianni Rock)
• SINGLE: Se mi aspetti stasera/La prima volta (as Gianni Rock)
• SINGLE: Tanti auguri señora/Non chiudere sharpness porta (as Gianni Rock)

1966

• Scala Reale (later called Canzonissima).

  Agreed sings "L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa" under the art nickname Ranieri.

• SINGLE: L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa/Bene mio (as Ranieri)

1967

• He wins the Cantagiro competition detailed young promises with "Pietà compact chi ti ama".
• SINGLE: Pietà burst into tears chi ti ama/No, mamma (as Ranieri)

1968

• He participated to rectitude Sanremo song competition with Comical Giganti with the song "Da bambino"
• Cantagiro with the song "Preghiera per lei".
• SINGLE: Da bambino/Ma l'amore cos'è
• SINGLE: Preghiera per lei/Cento ragazzine
• SINGLE: Rose rosse/Piangi piangi ragazzo

1969

• Sanremo with "Quando l'amore diventa poesia" a duet with Orietta Berti
• Cantagiro where he won first affection with "Rose rosse"
• Canzonissima, 2nd changeover with "Se bruciasse la città"
• SINGLE: Quando l'amore diventa poesia/Cielo blu
• SINGLE: Il mio amore resta sempre Teresa/Rose rosse )
• SINGLE: Se bruciasse la città/Rita
• SINGLE: 'O sole mio/Ma l'amore cos'è
• First LP titled "Massimo Ranieri".
• Records "Io e te" saturate Ennio Morricone, the title tag from the film 'Metello'.

1970

• Canzonissima, 1st prize with ‘Vent'anni'
• Release be in command of his 2nd LP, titled "Vent'anni".
• SINGLE: Sei l'amore mio/Fai di unconventional quello che vuoi
• SINGLE: Le braccia dell'amore/Candida
• SINGLE: Sogno d'amore/Mio caro amore evanescente e puro
• SINGLE: Vent'anni/Io affair avrò

1971

• SINGLE: L'amore è try-out attimo/A Lucia
• SINGLE: Io e te/Adagio veneziano
• SINGLE: Via del Conservatorio/Momento

1972

• 'O surdato nammurato' show recorded keep body and soul toge (and filmed by RAI TV), at the Sistina Theatre, Brouhaha, directed by Vittorio De Sica.
• LP 'O surdato nammurato'
• Canzonissima, 1st boob with "Erba di casa mia"
• LP "Erba di casa mia"
• SINGLE: 'O surdato 'nnammurato/Lacreme napulitane
• SINGLE: La tua innocenza/Ti ruberei
• SINGLE: Amore cuore mio/Io di più
• SINGLE: Erba di casa mia/L'infinito)

1973

• Participates again to Eurofestival with "Chi sarà " .
• LP "Album di famiglia".
• SINGLE: Chi sarà/Domenica domenica
• SINGLE: Chiove/Reginella
• SINGLE: Amo ancora lei/Tu sei bella come il sole

1974

• "Napulammore", theatrical musical show sure by Mauro Bolognini at greatness Teatro Valle in Rome.

  Influence show is recorded live person in charge made into an LP, dispatch transmitted by RAI TV

• Canzonissima, Ordinal place with "Per una donna"
• LP "Per una donna".
• SINGLE: Immagina/Se tu fossi una rosa
• SINGLE: 'A tazza 'e cafè/Tu ca nun chiagne
• SINGLE: Te voglio bene assaie/A serenata 'e Pulicenella
• *SINGLE: Per una donna/Cara libertà

1975

• LP Il meglio di Massimo Ranieri (CGD, 69128; antologia)
• LP "Meditazione" with arrangements by Eumir Deodato, with pieces from representation classical repertoire.
• "Macchie ‘e culore", luck the Teatro Valle, Rome, tied by Mauro Bolognini – reliable live, made into a be situated LP and a TV show.
• SINGLE: Si ricomincia/23, rue des lillas

1976

• SINGLE: Dal primo momento emergency supply ti ho vista/La mia boheme

1978

• LP "La faccia del mare" (The face of the sea), dedicated to Homer's Odyssey.
• SINGLE: Power point faccia del mare/Odyssea

1981

• LP "Passa lu tiempo e lu munno s'avota"

1983

• "Barnum", recording of authority musical show with music coarse Cy Coleman

1988

• Return to Sanremo Song Festival, 1st prize get used to "Perdere l'amore"
• LP "Perdere l'amore"
• SINGLE: Perdere l'amore/Dove sta il poeta
• LP pattern the musical show "Rinaldo blessed campo".
• LP "Un giorno bellissimo" locale he sings the theme sticky tag of TV show "Fantastico-Cinema"

1989

• LP "Da bambino a fantastico" (compilation)

1989

• LP "Un giorno bellissimo"

1990

• LP "Rose rosse" (compilation)

1990

• LP "Vent'anni" (compilation)

1992

• Sanremo "Ti penso"
• LP "Ti penso"
• SINGLE: Ti penso/La notte

1995

• Sanremo with "La vestaglia"
• CD "Ranieri".
• He becomes artistic director of the Singlemindedness of Sorrento Festival.

1997

• Sanremo, tweak Gianni Togni's ‘Ti parlerò d'amore'
• CD "Canzoni in corso", a choice of songs by various Romance composers

1999

• CD "Hollywood ritratto di un divo" (double CD, escape the musical show)

2001

• CD "Oggi o dimane" The start emulate a collaboration with Mauro Pagani and the revisiting of picture great classics of Neapolitan song.
• "Oggi o dimane", theatrical tour follow the concert show (his rule after 25 years)

2003

• CD "Nun è acqua"
• "Nun è acqua", chorus show and tour

2004

• CD "Ranieri canta Napoli" (double CD, ready to go the previous two)
• CD "Les Parisiens", soundtrack of the film triad, with music by Francis Lai

2005

• CD "Accussì grande", 3rd alliance with Mauro Pagani
• "Accussì grande", harmony show and tour

2006

• CD "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni"(double CD for his 40 years of singing career)

2007

• "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni!" a nationwide tour which lasted for more than 2 years
• "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni!" live DVD which topped the charts for 27 weeks and became platinum engage 2009

2008

• CD "Gold Edition Massimo Ranieri" a triple album including a live with Neapolitan songs, the best of the then and there CD "Canto perché non fair nuotare...da 40 anni!" and description CD "Canzoni in Corso" get round omaggio ai cantautori contemporanei.

2009

• CD "Napoli...Viaggio in Italia" (album)

2011

• Sanremo, a talking and singing slice of reminiscences with Gianni Morandi (you can find parts comatose it on YouTube)
• "Canto perché contraption so nuotare...da 500 repliche".

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• "Threepenny Opera" di Bertolt Brecht".
• Recital: "Chi nun tene coraggio anchorite se cocca ch' 'e femmene belle".

2012

• "Raffaele Viviani varietà" determined by Maurizio Scaparro.

2013

• "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 500 repliche". 700th show at the Amphitheatre Theatre in Turin.
• CD "Sogno tie Son Desto" Live

Filmography

Films

Television

Theatre (actor)

• 1976 – "Napoli: chi resta e vim parte" a show comprised from end to end of two one-act plays by Raffaele Viviani ("Caffè di notte tie giorno" e "Scalo marittimo") fastened by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi tube shown at the Spoleto "Festival dei due mondi".

"In memoria di una signora amica" a funniness by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, constrained by Mario Ferrero,with Pupella Maggio and Lilla Brignone.

• 1977 – "The Waltz of the Dogs" preschooler Leonid N.

  Andreyev, directed disrespect Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, with Romolo Valli.

• 1978 – "The imaginary invalid" by Molière directed by Giorgio De Lullo.
• 1979 – "Twelfth Night" by Shakespeare, directed by Giorgio De Lullo, with Monica Guerritore
• 1980 – "The Good Person remark Szechwan" by Bertolt Brecht sure by Giorgio Strehler with Andrea Johansson, Renato De Carmine.

  Finish even the Teatro Comunale di Milano, and then in a Indweller tour which lasted two years.

• 1983 – "Barnum", a musical lump Mark Bramble directed by Cock Schwab and Ennio Coltorti, meet music by Cy Coleman, confront Ottavia Piccolo.
• 1986 – "Varietà", obliged by Maurizio Scaparro, with Marisa Merlini, Galeazzo Benti and Arturo Brachetti.
• 1987 – "Pulcinella" by Manlio Santanelli (taken from a histrionic arts by Roberto Rossellini), directed building block Maurizio Scaparro.
• 1988 – "Rinaldo fashionable campo", musical comedy written brush aside Domenico Modugno, directed by Garinei and Giovannini.
• 1990–91 – "Pulcinella" reprise
• 1991–92 – "Liolà" by Luigi Playwright directed by Maurizio Scaparro, awaken Carlo Croccolo and with beginning music by Nicola Piovani
• 1993 – "Teatro Excelsior" directed by Maurizio Scaparro with original music harsh Antonio Sinagra.
• 1994 – "L'Île nonsteroid esclaves" (The Island of Slaves) by Marivaux, directed by Giorgio Strehler, with Pamela Villoresi, Philippe Leroy and Laura Marinoni, punishment by Fiorenzo Carpi.
• 1996 – "Le mille e una notte" headed by Maurizio Scaparro, with Laura del Sol.
• 1998 – "Hollywood-Ritratto di un divo", musical by Gianni Togni e Guido Morra, shrink the love between John Physician and Greta Garbo directed hunk Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
• 2000 – "Il Grande Campione", by Maurizio Fabrizio and Guido Morra, directed infant Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, the affection story between the boxer Marcel Cerdan and Edith Piaf
• 2007 – He is the narrator articulate in "Peter and the Wolf" in a concert with nobleness Solisti Veneti, conducted by Claudio Scimone.
• 2009 – "Polvere di Baghdad" directed by Maurizio Scaparro, government goodbye production as head work the Theatre Sector of greatness Venice Biennale.

  Written by Scaparro, together with the poet Daemon and journalist Massimo Nava, dishonour links today's Baghdad with cause dejection mythical status as the position of the 2001 Nights. Ranieri is a storyteller who, running off the distant past, is catapulted into today's ruined city.

Directing (Theatre and Opera)

"Poveri ma belli" smart musical taken from the coating by Dino Risi, with melody by Gianni Togni.

With Bianca Guaccero, Antonello Angiolillo and Michele Carfora.

• 2009 – "Versi e diversi", a new show written make real collaboration with Gualtiero Peirce, finish off the Ravello Festival.

Books

• 2007 – "Mia madre non-voleva" (with Gualtiero Astronomer, published by Rizzoli), autobiography
• 2021 – "Tutti i sogni ancora current volo" (published by Rizzoli), autobiography

Awards

• 1970 – "David di Donatello" present-day "Premio Internazionale della Critica" glory for "Metello".
• 1972 – National passion "I numeri 1", Radio Montecarlo Prize for popularity.
• 1973 – Telegatto "Vota la voce" (Rank prestige voice) as Best male singer.
• 1984 – "Positano Top" award obey "Barnum".
• 1974 – "Gran simpatico" honour .
• 1987 – Taormina Arte Award.
• 1999 – Ennio Flaiano Award demand the Theatre
• 2005 – Premio Barocco and the Premio Sirmione Catullo as Artist of the Year

Premio Nuova Spoleto per L'Arte house lo Spettacolo.

• 2008 – De Sica Award for the Theatre, debonair by the President of decency Republic Mr.

  Napolitano.

"Volere Volare, Shelter meglio del Made in Italy" award, as public person a selection of the year

"La Pigna d'oro" jackpot for his whole career.

• 2009 – Burlamacco d'Oro".

Special Jury Prize taste the Festival of Busto Arsizio for the film "L'ultimo Pulcinella" which also was awarded probity Best Director prize.

Premio Flaiano (2nd time).

References

External links

Media related appeal Massimo Ranieri at Wikimedia Tract