Beloved Italian Singer Ornella Vanoni, Whose Iconic Career Spanned 70 Years, Dies at 91
- Ornella Vanoni, one of Italy's most distinctive singers whose voice helped define generations of popular music, has died at her home in Milan at the age of 91.
- Over the next seven decades, Vanoni released more than 40 studio albums and recorded more than 100 in total, selling over 50 million copies worldwide.
- Vanoni worked with Gino Paoli, with whom she shared both a creative partnership and a long-rumored affair, as well as international artists including Herbie Hancock, George Benson and Gil Evans.
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Roma. The singer and actress Ornella Vanoni, diva of the Italian popular song, died on Friday at the age of 91 at her home in Milan, authorities and the local press reported.
The lady of Italian music wanted to taste today's stracittadina, but death came first. The great love with Gino Paoli, endless masterpieces and a voice as a scent: "Dedicate to me a flowerbug."Tomorrow is another day, even if she would have wanted it to be a day like another. Like every ultra-snob lady of the Milanese quadrilateral (double thread of pearls, fur of the dragonfly), Ornella Vanoni loved the penumbra and the subtone. And looking fro…
Beloved Italian singer Ornella Vanoni dies at 91
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Ornella Vanoni, a beloved performer who had a seven decade-long singing career with such international hits as “Senza Fine” and “L’appuntamento,” has died. She was 91. In a post on X Saturday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her deep sorrow for the loss of Vanoni, whose “unmistakable voice” left an imprint on Italian culture for generations. “Italy loses a unique artist who leaves us with an unrepeatable artisti…
All those who once had “a date” with the Italian song inevitably attended “L’ Appuntamento” (“The appointment”), that eternal piece that became so popular in Ornella Vanoni’s voice. Just as it will be inevitable to remember it now, after the news of the singer’s death in Milan was known, at 91 years old. And there was another, “Tomorrow is another day” (“Domani È Un Altro Giorno”), which was among his favourites and had that same melancholy. “I …
Italian singer and actress Ornella Vanoni, one of the most emblematic voices of Italian music, died on Saturday in Milan. He was 91 years old.
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