Adriano Celentano

Adriano Celentano ( born January 6, 1938 in Milan ) is an Italian singer, actor, music, film, and television producer and television presenter.

Life

His parents are from the province of Foggia in Apulia. After the fifth grade he left school and was apprenticed as a watchmaker. After performing as a comedian and impersonator cabaret clubs in Milan he founded in 1956 I Rock Boys, but in the following year began his singing solo career at a festival in Milan. At the beginning of his musical career, he took mainly on rock ' n' roll pieces. In 1958, he was with Il tuo bacio è come un rock a first hit and was then obliged by Federico Fellini for his film La dolce vita in a small role.

Beginning of the 1960 years Celentano founded his own production company Clan Celentano, in order to realize its projects independently can. Until well into the 1990s, he had from now on musical successes. Some of the biggest, including La coppia più bella del mondo and Azzurro, both composed by Paolo Conte, were number-one hits in Italy. Thus encouraged he could on the big screen and on TV ( Rai Uno ) succeed and increase its visibility. Here 's to 1987, lasting acting career crossed often slapstick -like characters, sometimes spiced with political undertones. His greatest achievements include the films bluff with Anthony Quinn and The tamed shrew and give the monkey sugar, both with his frequent co-star Ornella Muti. Four times he also took over even the directed and starred in its screenplay.

In the late 1980s Celentano provides as a television presenter at the state broadcaster RAI with his political polemics and his high salary for headlines. On 20 October 2005 he was again a separate four-part show at the RAI called Rock Politics in which he accused the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, massively violating freedom of the press. The show was again a great success. She was seen by an average of 15 million viewers. Since the 1990s, his wife Claudia Mori runs the company Clan Celentano. To date, he has sold over 150 million albums.

Private

Celentano is married to actress and singer Claudia Mori since 1964. They have two daughters, Rosita (born 1965 ) and Rosa Linda (* 1968 ), and a son, Giacomo (* 1966).

Discography

Filmography

German Synchro

Celentano was often dubbed by Thomas Dannenberg in Germany.