Umberto Tozzi

Umberto Tozzi is an Italian singer born the March 4th 1952 with Turin. It is famous in particular for its song " Ti amo ".

Biography

It enters in 1968 the group Off Sound, composed of young people who play in small rooms in Turin. It meets Adriano Pappalardo and form a group with eleven other members, then make a round through the Italy. In 1975, it takes part in the group Strana Società.

At nineteen years, Damiano Dattoli writes the song to him a corpo, un' animated , with which it gains its first success. It leaves its first album in 1976, Donna amante mia . The following year, Umberto Tozzi leaves Ti Amo , its most known song, produced by Giancarlo Bigazzi. It will remain seven months in first place of the Top 50, and will beat all the records of sale. Its two other most known songs in France, You and Gloria (Taken again in English by Laura Branigan and in French under the title Glori Gloria by Sheila), leave respectively in 1978 and 1979.

It leaves other successes in the years 1980, such as Notte Rosa or Eva . In 1984, it agrees a pause to return in force three years later, with the song Gente di Mare (with Raf with the Concours Eurovision of the song), real success in Italy, and especially If può dare di più (with Gianni Morandi and Enrico Ruggeri), thanks to which it gains the Festival of Sanremo. Its continuous career in the years 1990 with songs less romantic, but more sought, and which want to deliver a message, like Gli altri siamo noi , the crumb canzoni or Aria E cielo . it also gains the Festivalbar in 1977 and 1994.

The career of Umberto Tozzi has slowed down for a few years, but as of the exit of a new album, success is with go: its last passage to the Olympia (on February 15th, 2006 with Marco Masini as a guest high-speed motorboat) gained a great success.

Discography

Video catalog of films

  • 1991 : The Mie Canzoni in Concerto (live in Italy)
  • 1991: Live with Toronto (Canada)
  • 1994: Equivocando Turn

Last concerts in France

  • with Olympia, on Wednesday, February 15, 2006

External bonds

  • Official site

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