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Gigliola Cinquetti (b. 1947 in Verona, Italy) is an Italian singer. 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Map of Italy showing Verona in the north Verona (population est. ...
At the age of 16 she won the San Remo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non ho l'età" (I'm not old enough), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri. Her victory enabled her to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the same song, and she went on to claim her country's first-ever victory in the event and achieve the first UK Top 20 hit with a non-English-language Eurovision song. In 1966, she recorded "Dio, come ti amo" (God, how I love you), which became a world-wide hit. In 1974, she returned to the contest, again representing Italy, and finished second behind Sweden's ABBA with the song "Sì" (Yes), the music and lyrics of which were written by Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Lorenzo Pilat, and Carrado Conti. When translated into English as "Go", this song reached the UK Top 10. San Remo Music Festival (Festival della canzone italiana), running since 1951, is an Italian popular song contest held annually (first part of March) in San Remo. ...
Nicola Salerno, also known as Nisa (Naples, 1910 - Naples, 1969) was an Italian lyricist. ...
The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the ninth Eurovision and was held on March 21, 1964, in Denmark. ...
1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
ABBA (clockwise from top: Benny, Björn, Frida, Agnetha) on the cover of their album The Definitive Collection (2001) ABBA (1970 - 1982) was a Swedish pop music group. ...
Gigliola went on to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with Toto Cutugno, who had brought the event to Italy with his victory in Zagreb the previous year - the country's first win in the contest since her own twenty-six years earlier. The Eurovision Song Contest 1991 was the 36th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 4, 1991 in Rome. ...
Toto Cutugno is an Italian singer, born in Fosdinovo, Italy on July, 7 1943). ...
Zagreb (pronounced ZA-greb) is the capital city of Croatia. ...
Songography - "Non ho l'età"
- "Dio, come ti amo"
- "Sì"
- IMDB entry
Grethe Ingmann (b. ...
Jørgen Ingmann (born April 26, 1925) is a musician from Copenhagen, Denmark. ...
Running since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest (in French: Concours Eurovision de la Chanson) is an annual televised song contest with participants from numerous countries whose national television broadcasters are members of the European Broadcasting Union. ...
1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
France Gall is a French singer. ...
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