Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti Molina (born 28 October 1963 at Rome 's Cinecittà in Italy ) is an Italian pop singer and songwriter, who also plays guitar, piano and drums. He is one of the most popular Italian artists and has sold over 50 million records worldwide.
Life
Eros Ramazzotti was born the son of Rodolfo Ramazzotti and Raffaella Molina. His career began in 1981 when he ( " New Voices " ) participated with the song Rock 80 in the " Voci nuove " Castrocaro and promptly received a recording contract with the label DDD. A year later he published his first single ad un amico. In 1984, he took with his song Terra promessa first place in the category Newcomer of the Sanremo Music Festival. Ramazzotti released a number of albums that included both ballads with autobiographical content as well as rock music, and thus achieved international success. In addition to Italy, he is primarily known in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Due to his success in many Spanish-speaking countries his record company decided to release all the albums in a Spanish version.
Ramazzotti collaborated with many international artists. He sang, among other duets with Joe Cocker, Cher, Tina Turner, Anastacia, Andrea Bocelli, Tazenda, Giorgia, Umberto Tozzi, Gemelli Diversi, Adriano Celentano and Luciano Pavarotti. At its best-of CD s ², which was ten -platinum and 2007 was the best selling CD in Italy, had, inter alia, Ricky Martin, Carlos Santana, Wyclef Jean, Jon Spencer, John Shanks, Rhythms del Mundo, Take 6, Gian Piero Reverberi, Steve Vai, The Chieftains and Amaia Montero from La Oreja de Van Gogh with.
In addition to his artistic activities, Ramazzotti also played an important role in popular Nazionale Italiana Cantanti, the football team of Italian singers. In this he graduated as a striker 222 games for charity, scoring 127 goals. From 1992 to 2004 he was also president of the carrier company Associazione Nazionale Italiana Cantanti.
From 24 April 1998 to 25 March 2009 Ramazzotti was married to the Swiss presenter Michelle Hunziker, with whom he a daughter (born 5 December 1996) called Aurora, which he dedicated the song L' Aurora. On August 2, 2011 Eros Ramazzotti got his second daughter - Maria Raffaela - with his current partner Marica Pellegrinelli. In February 2012, Eros Ramazzotti was awarded the Golden Camera International 2011 Best in category Music.