Alberto Rabagliati
Alberto Rabagliati ( born June 26, 1906 in Milan, † March 7, 1974 in Rome ) was an Italian singer and actor. He was the first Italian pop star who was known throughout Europe.
1927 emigrated Alberto Rabagliati from Milan to Hollywood after he won a competition in which the best doppelganger Rodolfo Valentino was sought. " For someone like me, who had more than once seen Lake Como and the Cathedral of Monza, was the presence on a luxury steamship, with three full suitcases, a pile of dollars and duchesses and countesses who courted him, a great thing ."
During the Second World War he entertained the soldiers in the barracks of Trani. Rabagliati remained for four years in the U.S. and went to the American music this time familiar: the jazz, swing and scat. After he returned to Europe, he continued his career as a singer. After a short experience in the orchestra of Pippo Barzizza he collaborated with the Orchestra of the Lecuona Cuban Boys. He appeared with black-colored face and so did the song Maria la O a success.
Appearances on radio
During one evening with the Lecuona Cuban Boys Giovanni D' Anzi Rabagliati who suggested him to sing in a EIAR broadcast met. In no time, Alberto Rabagliati developed the most popular voice of Italian radio. In 1941 he got his own show. Every Monday evening transferred the E.I.A.R. the mission Canta Rabagliati, in the Rabagliati his most famous songs sang as Ma l' amore no, Mattinata fiorentina, Ba -ba - baciami piccina, Silenzioso slow and Bambina innamorata.
Rabagliati was so famous that he was even quoted and mentioned in songs of other singers, such as. , La famiglia canterina, Quando Quando la canta Rabagliati and Radio The female fans fainted and pelted him with roses. Although it has been encountered in the time of Italian fascism cultural influences from the United States with suspicion, he could maintain his American style. The fascist government, to calling women to bear more children, even used his song Sposi for an advertising campaign.
Rabagliatis enormous reputation helped that he once worked as an actor. From 1940 to 1965 he starred in about 20 films, among which were The Barefoot Contessa, Monte Carlo, a widower, and But, but ... gentlemen. He was active until the mid -1950s in the theater with the musical comedians Garinei and Giovannini. His last public appearance was at the 1974 telecast Milleluci as a guest at Mina and Raffaella Carrà. A short time later, he died of a blood clot in the brain.