Nicola Salerno

Nicola Salerno ( born March 11, 1910 in Naples, † May 22, 1969 in Milan ), also known as Nisa known, was an Italian songwriter and artist.

Life

In the second half of the 1930s Nicola Salerno moved to Milan. He began his career as a draftsman, for example Covers various Neapolitan songs.

Afterwards he worked with Gino Redi together: La bambola pink (1937 ), Tango del mare ( 1939), Oi Marì (1941 ), La strada del bosco (1942 ) and Notte e dì (1942 ) are developed.

In the postwar period was Eulalia Torricelli (1946 ) his first success. The song tells a humorous way of an unhappy love story between a wealthy girl from Forlì and a boy named Giosuè.

Nisa also wrote such classics as Acque amare (1953), Accarezzame (1954) and Guaglione, which won at the Festival di Napoli in 1956.

1955, the director of Edizioni Musicali Radio Record Ricordi, Mariano Rapetti, and Renato Carosone Nisa proposed working for a radio contest. Nisa appeared at Carosone with three to add audio texts, one of which was titled Tu Vuo fa ' l' americano. The latter inspired Carosone such that he immediately began to compose a boogie -woogie. The resulting in a quarter of an hour song became a worldwide success. This was the beginning of a happy and productive collaboration. Often enough, a little push by Carosone and Nisa be thought of an entertaining story. Some of her most famous pieces are: O suspiro, Matador, Caravan petrol, Pigliate ' na pastiglia and O sarracino.

In the 1960s, Nisa participated in the Sanremo Festival with È vero (1960), Non ho l' eta ( Per Amarti ) (1964, winner of the Euro Vision Song Contest) and La musica è finita (1967 ) part.

Important works

Below are some pieces are listed, the text of which was written by Nicola Salerno.