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Born Sept 22, 1934, to a Milanese family, Italian singer Ornella Vanoni spent the majority of her twenties alternating between theater (her debut is at 1957 with Federico Zardi’s We Giacobini) and music. She began by performing “le canzoni della mala,” or music about the underworld, but after conference Gino …

Though he was created in Monfalcone, in Gorizia (near modern-day Slovenia and Croatia), as a kid Gino Paoli moved across Italy to Genoa, and it had been that city with which he was associated and that he called his home. In the 1950s he worked well like a porter along …