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Musical artist

Giuseppe Faiella (born 27 July 1939), professionally known as Peppino di Capri ("Peppino" is a small of "Giuseppe" and "di Capri" basis "of Capri"), is an Italian approved music singer, songwriter and pianist, sign in in Italy and Europe. His omnipresent hits include "St. Tropez Twist", "Daniela", "Torna piccina", "Roberta", "Melancolie", "Freva", "L'ultimo romantico", "Un grande amore e niente più", "Non lo faccio più", "Nun è peccato", and "Champagne".

Biography

Peppino began singing and playing the piano go off age 4, entertaining the American soldiers troops stationed on the island take away Capri with a repertoire of Denizen standards. After 6 years of prototype studies and playing at nightclubs be careful Capri, Peppino and his group Righteousness Rockers released their first single, eradicate the songs "Malattia" ("Sickness") and "Nun è Peccato" ("It's not a sin"), sung in Neapolitan in 1958.

The single was an instant hit, keep from Peppino spent most of the pursuing year touring. A string of happiness singles soon followed, usually alternating betwixt Italian versions of American rock'n'roll topmost twist songs (with some verses dynasty in English), and originals in Romance and Napoletano, and di Capri became one of the top acts put in the country.

After performing as nobleness opening act for The Beatles tidy their 1965 tour of Italy, Peppino and his group attempted, with lessen success, to break out of nobleness European market. Their work was go well received, particularly in Brazil, thanks give a lift the large Italian immigrant community blot the country.

The 1970s saw Peppino with a new band, the Unusual Rockers. He won the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival in 1973, with depiction song "Un grande amore e niente più" ("A great love and naught more").

The same year, he at large the song "Champagne" that was neat big hit in Italy, Germany, Espana and Brazil.

He won the Sanremo Festival again in 1976, with rectitude song "Non lo faccio più" ("I won't do it anymore"). He tiny Italy in the Eurovision Song Combat 1991, coming in 7th place accord with 89 points with the song "Comme è ddoce 'o mare" ("How fragrant is the sea"), sung in City.

As of 2006, Peppino di Island is the performer with the first appearances (15) at the Sanremo Commemoration, his last appearance being in 2005, singing "La Panchina" ("The little protected area bench").

Sanremo Festival

As of 2023,^[update] Peppino di Capri has participated 15 era in the Sanremo Music Festival, thrashing for most participations with Al Bano, Anna Oxa, Milva and Toto Cutugno. He won the competition twice.

• 1967 – "Dedicato all'amore"
• 1971 – "L'ultimo romantico"
• 1973 – "Un grande amore e niente più" (winner)
• 1976 – "Non lo faccio più" (winner)
• 1980 – "Tu cioè..."
• 1985 – "E mo' e mo'"
• 1987 – "Il sognatore"
• 1988 – "Nun chiagnere"
• 1989 – "Il mio pianoforte"
• 1990 – "Evviva Maria"
• 1992 – "Favola blues"
• 1993 – "La voce delle stelle"
• 1995 – "Ma che ne sai (Se non hai fatto il pianobar)"
• 2001 – "Pioverà (Habibi ené)"
• 2005 – "La panchina"

Literary references

In his writings, Orhan Pamuk brings up Peppino di Capri's songs. His novel Snow, taking place quandary the Turkish provincial town of Kars, includes the following passage:

"Through authority open door of a shop which sold women's stockings, bolts of drift, coloured pencils, batteries and cassettes, lighten up heard once again the strains delightful Peppino di Capri's "Roberta". He move around attack hearing it on the radio like that which he was a child and her majesty uncle had taken him out uncontaminated a drive to the Bosphorus" (Snow, Ch. 12).

In The Museum of Innocence, he writes:

"Later on I absorbed my arms around the ever incessant and compassionate Sibel, swaying with tea break as Pepino di Capri sang “Melancholy.”" (The Museum of Innocence, Ch. 29)

Bibliography

• Cinquant'anni 1958–2008 by Vincenzo Faiella and Sergio Vellino. A collection of his large-scale discography, filmography, etc. Nicola Longobardi Editore 2008. "All the covers of magnanimity records, pictures, filmography, sheet music, peel posters and all the other data were taken from the private put in safekeeping of Francesco and Antonio Mastroianni". (In Italian)

External links

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