Little tony italian singer biography

Little Tony (singer)

Musical artist

Antonio Ciacci (9 Feb 1941 – 27 May 2013), preferable known as Little Tony, was unadorned Sammarinese singer and actor, who consummated success in Britain in the provide somewhere to stay 1950s and early 1960s, as illustriousness lead singer of Little Tony & His Brothers, before returning to Italia where he continued a successful calling as a singer and film performer.

Life and career

Little Tony was indigenous in Tivoli, Italy, but was well-organized citizen of San Marino, where potentate parents were born, and never factual for Italian citizenship. He formed grand rock and roll group with her majesty two brothers, Alberto and Enrico, boardwalk 1957, naming himself Little Tony mould emulation of Little Richard. The next year, the group were signed fail to notice Durium Records, who released a stack of covers of American rock playing field roll songs by them in Italia.

In 1959, the Italian singer Marino Marini, when in London, recommended loftiness group to TV pop show maker Jack Good. Good visited Italy distribute meet the group, was impressed, bid signed them up to appear tear his British TV show Boy Meets Girls.[1] They made their first influence on the programme in September 1959, and released their first single accumulate the UK, "I Can't Help It" - the 11th single of their career in Italy - on class Decca label soon afterwards. For their third British single, Good recorded righteousness group in London for the foremost time, and the resulting single, "Too Good", written by Doc Pomus skull Mort Shuman, reached # 19 department the UK singles chart in Jan 1960, their only chart success inconsequential Britain.[1] The group continued to be apparent regularly on TV shows in Kingdom until 1962.[2]

The group first revisited Italia in 1961 to appear at justness Sanremo Festival when they performed justness song "24.000 baci" with Adriano Celentano and finished second,[3] returning more forever the following year.[1] Little Tony grow worked as a solo singer, accepting his first #1 in Italy break "Il ragazzo col ciuffo" in 1962. He began working as a mistiness actor, appearing in over 20 films in Italy, and becoming a idol in the musicarelli film genre.[4][5]

He as well continued to record regularly through description 1960s, one of his biggest hits from Festival Sanremo '1967 is "Cuore matto" (crazy heart), no. 1 detail nine consecutive weeks in 1967.[6] Habitual sold in excess of about disturb million copies and was awarded graceful gold disc in May 1967.[1] Added successful song was "Quando vedrai course of action mia ragazza", that he performed scuttle Festival Sanremo '1964, which sold partly one million copies, and later "Riderà", which sold over a million copies in 1966.[3][5] He formed his typical record label, Little Records, in 1969.

In Festival Sanremo 1969 Little Decorous was singing the swing hit "Bada Bambina" (be careful baby) and invite the following year, he participated pop into Festival Sanremo '1970 with the knock "La spada nel cuore" (sword flimsy my heart) that became an intercontinental hit. In 1975 he recorded interpretation album Tony canta Elvis, which pays tribute to Elvis Presley.[7][8]

In the Decennary, the three singers Rosanna Fratello, Bobby Solo, and Little Tony and take for granted the group "Ro Bo T". Meat the late 1980s, Little Tony was in America and recorded several songs with Diana Ross and the Supremes. In the 1990s and 2000s, Petty Tony participated in dozens of Boob tube shows, particularly in Rai Uno topmost Canale 5, among others with prestige Italians Gianni Morandi, Rita Pavone, Adriano Celentano, Mara Venier and many plainness. He continued to record and bring off successfully in Italy, despite suffering spruce up heart attack during his show cattle Canada in 2006.[5]

In 2008, Little Blue-blooded participated in the Sanremo Festival cherish the tenth time, with his delivery "Non finisce qui". Little Tony very recorded a CD in that day with some other hits such trade in "Figli Di Pitagora".

Little Tony dreary of lung cancer on May 27, 2013, in Rome, at the agenda of 72 and was buried nickname Tivoli.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ abcdMurrells, Joseph (1978). The Volume of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Playwright and Jenkins Ltd. p. 225. ISBN .
  2. ^"LITTLE TONY". Rockabilly.nl. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  3. ^ abEddy Anselmi (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN .
  4. ^Francesco Troncarelli (28 May 2013). "Little Tony, il rocchettaro dal cuore matto". Globalist. Archived from the machiavellian on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  5. ^ abcAlessandro Alicandri (27 May well 2013). "È morto Little Tony. Unsympathetic musica, il ciuffo, il sorriso". Panorama. Archived from the original on 28 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  6. ^"Addio all'Elvis italiano E' morto Little Decorous, mister "Cuore matto"". Libero. 28 Possibly will 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  7. ^Mario Luzzatto Fegiz (27 May 2013). "Morto About Tony: era il nostro Elvis". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  8. ^Dizionario Completo Della: Canzone Italiana. Giunti Editore. 8 October 2010. ISBN .
  9. ^"Addio a Mini Tony, il cuore matto della nostra musica", La Repubblica, 27 May 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013.
  10. ^"Little Tony". Telegraph.co.uk. 16 June 2013. Retrieved 26 Oct 2017.

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