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Gigliola Cinquetti

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Gigliola Cinquetti is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, Veneto

Veneto

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) is an Italian

Italian people

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singer

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

, TV

Television

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presenter

Presenter

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and journalist

Journalist

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Biography

At the age of 16 she won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non ho l'età

Non Ho L'Età

"Non ho l'età" was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, held in Copenhagen. It was performed in Italian by Gigliola Cinquetti representing Italy. Like all previous Italian Eurovision entries, the song had also won that year's San Remo Music Festival...

" ("I'm Not Old Enough"), with music

Melody

A melody , also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity...

composed

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

by Nicola Salerno

Nicola Salerno

Nicola Salerno, also known as Nisa was an Italian lyricist. He formed a famous songwriting duo with Renato Carosone.-Career:Nicola Salerno was born in Naples....

and lyrics

Lyrics

Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...

by Mario Panzeri. Her victory enabled her to represent Italy

Italy

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in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964

Eurovision Song Contest 1964

The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the ninth Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark after the Danish victory the previous year. Sweden did not participate because of a boycott by singers. They did however broadcast it...

with the same song, and she went on to claim her country's first ever victory in the event. This became an international success, even entering UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

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, traditionally unusual for Italian material. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a platinum disc

Music recording sales certification

Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...

in August 1964. In 1966, she recorded "Dio, come ti amo

Dio, Come Ti Amo

"Dio, come ti amo" was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1966, performed in Italian by Domenico Modugno.The song is a ballad, in which Modugno tells his lover how he feels about her...

" ("God, How I Love You"), which became another worldwide hit

Hit record

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Sanremo performances

In the following occasions, Gigliola Cinquetti performed at the Sanremo Music Festival

Festival della canzone italiana

The Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo is a popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo, in Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs...

1964 "Non ho l'età (Per amarti)" - coupled with Patricia Carli
1965 "Ho bisogno di vederti" - coupled with Connie Francis
Connie Francis
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1966 "Dio come ti amo" - coupled with Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu "...
1968 "Sera" - coupled with Giuliana Valci
1969 "La pioggia" - coupled with France Gall
France Gall
France Gall is a popular French yé-yé singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....
1970 "Romantico blues" coupled with Bobby Solo
1971 "Rose nel buio" - coupled with Ray Conniff
Ray Conniff
Joseph Raymond Conniff was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.-Biography:...
1972 "Gira l'amore (Caro bebè)"
1973 "Mistero"
1985 "Chiamalo amore"'
1989 "Ciao"
1995 "Giovane vecchio cuore"

Censored in 1974

She returned to fame in Eurovision Song Contest 1974

Eurovision Song Contest 1974

The Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was the 19th Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in the seaside resort of Brighton on the south coast of the United Kingdom...

, again representing Italy. Performing the song "Sì

Sì (song)

"Sì" is the name of the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, which finished second behind the Swedish entry "Waterloo" sung by ABBA.-Background:...

" ("Yes"), the music and lyrics of which were written by Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Lorenzo Pilat and Carrado Conti, she finished second behind "Waterloo", sung by Sweden

Sweden

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's ABBA

ABBA

ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...

.

According to author

Author

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and historian, John Kennedy O'Connor

John Kennedy O'Connor

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's, The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, the live telecast of her song was banned in her home country by the Italian national broadcaster RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

, as the event partially coincided with the campaigning for the 1974 Italian referendum on divorce which was held a month later in May.

RAI censored the song because of concerns that the name and lyrics of the song (which constantly repeated the word 'Sì') could be accused of being a subliminal message and a form of propaganda

Propaganda

Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group....

to influence the Italian voting public to vote 'Yes' in the referendum. The song remained censored on most Italian state TV and radio station

Radio station

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s for over a month.

An English language

English language

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version of the song, "Go (Before You Break My Heart)", reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

in June 1974.

Later career

One of her other songs, "Alle Porte del Sole" (released in 1973), was re-recorded in English

English language

(as "Door of the Sun") and Italian

Italian language

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by Al Martino

Al Martino

Al Martino was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid 1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The...

, two years after its initial release, and reached #17 on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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s Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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in the United States

United States

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. Cinquetti's own English

English language

version of the song was released as a single by CBS Records in August 1974, with her original 1973 Italian

Italian language

version on the B-side.

Cinquetti went on to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest 1991

Eurovision Song Contest 1991

The Eurovision Song Contest 1991 was the 36th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 4 May 1991 in Rome. Due to the Gulf War and mounting tensions in Yugoslavia, RAI decided to move the contest from Sanremo to Rome, which was perceived to be more secure....

with Toto Cutugno

Toto Cutugno

Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno is an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician.-Biography:Toto Cutugno was born in Fosdinovo, Tuscany, to a Sicilian father and a Tuscan mother. Shortly after his birth the family moved to La Spezia ....

, who had brought the event to Italy

Italy

with his victory in Zagreb

Zagreb

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the previous year - the country's first win in the contest since her own twenty-six years earlier.

In the 1990s she became a professional journalist and TV presenter, and she currently hosts the current affairs

Current affairs (news format)

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programme

Television program

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Italia Rai on RAI International.

Single A-sides

"Non ho l'età" (1964)
"Dio, come ti amo" (1966)
"Alle porte del sole" (1973)
"Sì" (1974)

External links

Gigliola Cinquetti Videos grattia.com
Russian page about Gigliola Cinquetti

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Biography

Sanremo performances

Censored in 1974

Later career

Single A-sides

See also

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