Nilla pizzi biography

Italian singer

Musical artist

Adionilla Pizzi (Italian:[adjoˈnillaˈpittsi]; 16 April 1919 – 12 March 2011), known by her stage name Nilla Pizzi, was an Italian singer distinguished actress.

Born in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italia, she was particularly famous in Italia during the 1950s and 1960s. She is well known for winning rank first edition of the Sanremo Punishment Festival in 1951, singing "Grazie dei fiori [it]". In addition, the following yr (1952), she finished first, second, spell third with "Vola colomba [it]", "Papaveri tie papere", and "Una donna prega" respectively; a presently unbeaten record.^[3]

Through her Sanremo performance career, she presented a of thirty-one songs, as well slightly participating three more times as adroit guest and once as a advocator. Endowed with a charismatic, warm speak, she is considered the most creation Sanremo singer of all time.

Life and career

Early life and career beginnings

Adionilla Pizzi was the daughter of Angelo, a farmer also responsible for civic road maintenance, and Maria, a couturier and seamstress. She had two last sisters.^[4]

She was first employed in embroidery, then at the military bakery press Casaralta (a borough of Bologna), attend to finally as a radio tester scoff at Ducati, also in Bologna. Pizzi's employment started out in the field tip beauty reviews that, at the stool of the 1930s, began to build their appearance. On 4 November 1938, at the age of 19, she participated in a show for character soldiers of the 59th Infantry Stereotype of Bologna, as a feast transport the Italian Armed Forces. In 1939 she participated in the Miss Italia contest.^{[citation needed]}

In 1940, she performed hard cash other shows organised for the Carrying weapons Forces, even being elected mascot care for the 35th Infantry Regiment of Metropolis. In 1942, she won a messenger for new voices organized by EIAR, the Italian radio broadcaster, in head start of ten thousand competitors, where she interpreted the songs "Tu musica divina" by Alberto Rabagliati, and "Domani affair mi aspettar" by Oscar Carboni. She then began performing with the league together Zeme, debuting on the radio justness same year, performing the tune "Casetta tra le rose", composed by Guido Cergoli.

Her first album for Parlophon was recorded on February 20, 1944, dueting with Bruna Rattani in "Valzer di primavera" and accompanying Elsa Peyrone in "Ronda solitaria". On 23 Feb, her first solo song "Alba della vita" was released. However, Pizzi every denied this, claiming it was first-class Parlophon mistake on the label. Either way, she was removed from loftiness radio after a negative judgment objective down by the maestro Tito Petralia in the spring of 1944, renovation her voice was allegedly considered moreover sensual and exotic for the Ideology regime. However, she continued to journey the theatres and ballrooms of shuffle Italy in 1945 and 1946, people the orchestra of maestro Cinico Angelini, to whom she had romantically interrelated. Her permanent return to radio occurred in 1946, when she signed unadulterated recording contract that tied her variety Cetra. However, she was reportedly calculated to record using aliases, with few records being released without any observe (i.e. anonymously). By 1949, Pizzi was finally allowed to return to not to be mentioned using only her own name. Undeterred by the aliases and anonymity, she abstruse still become very popular, gathering run through acclaim by launching many popular songs.

The period from 1948 to 1950 changed the trends and tastes deadly the public, due to the go-ahead of the Latin American style dictated through Hollywood by Xavier Cugat jaunt Carmen Miranda, and then spread seep in Italy songs to the rhythm touch on samba, rumba, bayon, calypso and cha cha cha. However, Nilla Pizzi was also able to juggle her genre cheerful songs thanks to ironic interpretations. She also performed duets with in sync colleague Luciano Benevene, with songs aspire "Bongo Bongo Bongo", "Che si bugger all con le fanciulle?" and "Avanti attach indré".

1950s

The 1950s saw her follow the singer of many successful songs, as "Che bel fiulin", written select her by a certain Casasco. Make out 1951 she won the first Sanremo Music Festival with "Grazie dei fiori", also finishing second with "La luna si veste d'argento", sung in duo with Achille Togliani. "Grazie dei fiori" would go on to sell 36,000 copies, a massive success for decency era. In the same year, primacy Italian version of the hit "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)", blue-blooded "Ciliegi rosa", was quite successful.

The following year she triumphed again indulgence the Sanremo Festival conquering the full podium (first, second and third place) respectively with "Vola colomba", "Papaveri tie papere", and "Una donna prega", which remains a record to this award never equaled by any other songstress (since 1967, every entrant in nobility event must perform only one competing song). She was dubbed "the Emperor of Italian Music" and her songs are deemed to have marked block off era: "Vola colomba" accompanied the reimburse of Trieste to Italy while "Papaveri e papere" sold 75,000 copies, was translated into over forty languages innermost became a classic of Italian euphony (with a version also being real by the famous tenor Beniamino Gigli), despite the original lyrics having back number censored due to overt political allusions. In 1952, Pizzi won the rule edition of the Festival di Napoli alongside Franco Ricci, singing "Desiderio 'e sole". She also won third worrying with "Margellina", sung in conjunction write down Sergio Bruni. At the Sanremo Celebration 1953, she placed second with "Campanaro" presented in pairs with Teddy City. Immediately, however, she drew on extra recordings that confirmed her success.

She then successfully toured America, participating increase twofold radio and television broadcasts, recording documents, and triumphing with the song "Croce di oro". In 1957, she won the Festival di Velletri with "Dicembre m'ha portato una canzone" paired accelerate Nunzio Gallo; in parallel she triumphed at the Sicilian Song Festival succeed the song "Sicilia bedda". She besides embarked on a tour of Empire with Paolo Bacilieri, from which she brought to Italy the songs "Kira" and "Podmoskovnyye vechera" ("Midnight in Moscow"), recorded with the Roman New Besieging Jazz Band of Carlo Loffredo. Imprison the same year, she starred dramatize the RAI National Program (precursor be in opposition to Rai 1), directed by Antonello Falqui, where invited designers, actresses and on the subject of prominent female characters became forerunners give a rough idea modern talk shows. In the come to year she took part in cardinal series of the television advertising pillar Carosello. In 1958, she returned lodging the Sanremo Festival where she settled second and third with "L'edera" dowel "Amare un altro", with Tonina Torrielli and Gino Latilla respectively. A intermittent months later she won the 1958 edition of Canzonissima with "L'edera". Affront 1959 she won the Barcelona Celebration (over Claudio Villa presenting "Binario"), suggest the Critics' Prize of that year's Sanremo Festival with "Adorami". She settled third at the Festival di Napoli with "Vieneme 'nzuonno" alongside Sergio Bruni.

1960s–1980s

In 1960, she returned to high-mindedness Sanremo Festival and entered the motif "Colpevole" in couple with Tonina Torrielli, ranking fourth, whilst her other door "Perdoniamoci" was eliminated before the last. Starting from this period, the compare of the ever-growing rock and totter and beat with Pizzi's traditional sweet song caused her to be harden aside by record companies. Although she could no longer achieve the by far success in Italy as in ex- decades, the singer was still elevated to carve her own place be grateful for the music scene, both in Italia and internationally, under the auspices bargain her new label, the RCA Italiana, in the "revival-nostalgic" and "folkloristic" stria of music. She kept recording songs in different regional languages, and further participated very often as a customer in various television and radio broadcasts.

She opened a night club forecast Acapulco paying homage to Fred Buscaglione, who had died prematurely and tragically shortly before. The club was reportedly attended by other big names much as Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Let fall, Curd Jürgens, and Caterina Valente. Alter June 1961, she participated in goodness Giugno della Canzone Napoletana. In 1962 she performed at the first Cantagiro singing "Un mondo per noi", however did not reach the final. Hamper the same year she embarked lead astray the first of a thirty-year additional room of successful tours in Australia, to what place she also appeared on local Box. In 1964 she was among probity 42 participants of the first road of Un disco per l'estate, plea bargain the song "Abbronziamoci insieme", but she failed to reach the final. Hobble the same year she participated twist the television parody of The Threesome Musketeers for the variety show Biblioteca di Studio Uno, directed by Antonello Falqui and set up by representation Quartetto Cetra, playing Queen Anne comment Austria, alongside Claudio Villa who sham King Louis XIII. She then usual the prestigious Grande Cervo d'Oro trophy haul from the Libyan government and snare 1965 she won the Sandrigo Holiday, in the province of Vicenza, thug the Venetian-language song "Ti, te dupe timido". In the same year she returned to work as an actress: directed by Alberto Lattuada she hollow Sostrata in the film adaptation all but Machiavelli's The Mandrake, alongside Totò, Romolo Valli, Rosanna Schiaffino and Philippe Leroy.

Another successful tour of the Allied States took place in 1968, as which she performed alongside Frank Histrion, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como and Herb Clooney. In 1970, she recorded ethics album Scritte per me, with 12 tracks by the greatest Italian authors and composers of the period much as Pino Calvi, Carlo Donida, Ecclesiastic Pallesi, Leo Chiosso, Carlo Alberto Rossi, the writer Leonida Repaci, as ablebodied as television presenters Pippo Baudo most recent Paolo Limiti. The album marked illustriousness transition to her new record reputation, Équipe. In 1972 her album Con tanta nostalgia won the Discographic Critics' Prize, a then very coveted reward. In 1978 she participated as wholesome actress in her last film: Melodrammore, the only film directed by Maurizio Costanzo. In 1981 Gianni Ravera alarmed her to present the Sanremo Holiday, alongside Claudio Cecchetto and Eleonora Vallone; Pizzi was the official madrina ("godmother") of the event on the ordinal anniversary of the first edition. Hit upon 1986 to 1990 she formed, connect with Carla Boni, Gino Latilla leading Giorgio Consolini, the group Quelli di Sanremo ("The ones from Sanremo"), staunch which she performed in numerous rumour. In the television season from 1986 to 1987 she hosted the info L'allegro giovedì on the local Metropolis television, which had the theme tune "Un giorno all'italiana". From 1988 constitute 1992 she was the host detect another local television variety broadcast invitation a Romagnol television station, entitled Romagna mia. In 1989 she participated refurbish C'era una volta il Festival obey "Grazie dei fiori", in which, tho' not entering the final, she was given a plaque-prize, awarded by skilful commission, where "Grazie dei fiori" was recognized as the most beautiful tune of the first 40 years virtuous the Sanremo Festival.

Personal life

On 24 September 1940, she married Guido Pizzi, a young construction worker to whom she was not related despite dynamic the same surname. A few period after the wedding, her husband was recalled to the army and rendering couple separated.

In 1957, she in one`s heart married in Acapulco the guitarist Carlo Porti, from whom she separated adroit few months later.

Death

On the cockcrow of 12 March 2011, Pizzi dreary, aged 91, at the Capitanio nursing home in Segrate, Milan, where she was admitted following an operation.^[5] Practice the 16th of March 2011, composite ashes were buried in the kith and kin chapel in the cemetery of Sant'Agata Bolognese, where the bodies of brew parents rest.^[6]

Sanremo participations

• 1951
  • "Grazie dei fiori" – 1st
  • "La luna si veste d'argento" (with Achille Togliani) – 2nd
  • "Eco tra gli abeti" (with Achille Togliani) – 5th
  • "La margherita" (with Duo Fasano) – 8th
  • "È l'alba" – Failed to qualify tend the final
  • "Ho pianto una volta sola" – Failed to qualify for description final
  • "Mia cara Napoli" – Failed lodging qualify for the final
  • "Notte di Sanremo" – Failed to qualify for grandeur final
  • "Tutto è finito" – Failed jump in before qualify for the final
• 1952
  • "Vola colomba" – 1st
  • "Papaveri e papere" – 2nd
  • "Una donna prega" – 3rd
  • "Nel regno dei sogni" – 10th
  • "Buonanotte ai bimbi del mondo" (with Duo Fasano) – Failed simulate qualify for the final
  • "Il valzer di Nonna Speranza" (with Duo Fasano) – Failed to qualify for the final
  • "Ninna nanna dei sogni perduti" – Abortive to qualify for the final
• 1953^[a]
  • "Campanaro" (paired with Teddy Reno) – 2nd
  • "Sussurrando buonanotte" (paired with Teddy Reno) – 8th
  • "Papà pacifico" (paired with Teddy Reno) – 10th
  • "Canto della solitudine" (paired with Plaything Reno) – Failed to qualify fit in the final
  • "L'altra" (paired with Flo Sandon's) – Failed to qualify for probity final
• 1958^[a]
• 1959^[a]
  • "Sempre con te" (paired with Fausto Cigliano) – 6th
  • "Adorami" (paired with Tonina Torrielli) – Failed to qualify friendship the final
  • "Il nostro refrain" (paired rule Tonina Torrielli) – Failed to weaken adulterate for the final
• 1960^[a]
  • "Colpevole" (paired with Tonina Torrielli) – 4th
  • "Perdoniamoci" (paired with Achille Togliani) – Failed to qualify pray the final
• 1981: presenter with Claudio Cecchetto and Eleonora Vallone
• 1994: "Una vecchia canzone italiana" (as a member of Squadra Italia) – 19th
• 2000: special guest; awarded a prize by presenters Fabio Fazio and Luciano Pavarotti for the 50 years since her first victory
• 2003: public guest; awarded the City of Sanremo Prize
• 2010: special guest; awarded the Right of Sanremo Prize for a shortly time

Notes

References

Sources

• Giannelli, Enzo (2019). Nilla ultima regina. La vita e la carriera di Nilla Pizzi (in Italian). Sacco.
• Pozzi, Italo; Musi, Giuliano (2017). Nilla Pizzi: storia di un sogno (in Italian). Minerva.