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Domenico Modugno
9 January 1928 – Polignano a Mare, Lampedusa, 6 August 1994
Son of Malatrasi, Commander of the Municipal Guard, and Easter Lorusso, of the nearby town of Conversano; has two older brothers, Vito Antonio said Tonino and John said Gandhi, and an older sister, Teresa, from small family is called Mimi. In 1935 his father is transferred to San Pietro Vernotico, Brindisi. (where they are then buried parents of Modugno): Mimmo in 7 years begins to go to school and learn the dialect San Pietrano (being part of the Salento dialect), vaguely reminiscent of the Sicilian dialect. Learn to play the guitar in his teens thanks to the teachings of his father Cosimo in 1945 made up two songs, but they never will: and the Moon between clouds smiling at my pain and the train whistling, writes even poems. In 1949 finished their military service in Bologna returns to San Pietro Vernotico, and began playing the accordion for the whole country, improvising SERENADES for girls. He began his theatrical activity under the guidance of Maestro Rolomir little fellow, but life as a country starts has to be narrow, and decided to go to Turin and later will move to Rome, where he's staying at the monastery of camaldolese monks on the Caelian Hill, won a competition for actor amateurs who will allow him to enroll at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.There he meets the young Sicilian actress Franca Gandolfi, daughter of a Colonel. Franca would become his wife.
The film begins with her first appearance on film the fireman of Viggiù; in 1951 appears in the film Filumena Marturano. In the movie heroic charge, plays a military soldier who has to sleep a child, Modugno singing a popular song of San Pietro Vernotico, Lullaby (Uliè Uliè tene us), thanks to this song Modugno is called to participate in the broadcast Trampoline, where she performed with Nina n; performance appreciated by the Director of the second channel Rai, so Fulvio Palmieri proposes to design and conduct a music broadcast in four episodes. In 1963 leads Amuri ... amuri, radio program where she played a song for each episode. In those days comes the story that Domenico Modugno's Sicilian: since the public exchanges the Salento dialect for the Sicilian, Modugno does not disprove, attracting the wrath of his fellow villagers of San Pietro, in fact will declare to be Sicilian. In 1953 he hosts along with Frank Sinatra in the broadcast radio Radioscrigno,during which Malaya will perform the song Lullaby, a song that is very appreciated by Sinatra, who asks him arecording of the song. Sinatra will not ever this song, but this will serve to raise the interest of Modugno RAI executives. In 1953 gets a contract with RCA, for which begins to publish the first 78 and 45 rpm discs, with songs composed in Salento dialect and Sicilian. For these pieces is inspired by the folklore of these two regions; miners, fishermen, etc.. The first release is a 78 rpm "ciociaria / Lullaby". The parents separate and his mother moved to Rome with Vito Antonio, Domenico's brother who began working for him as a Manager, the other brother Giannino remains in San Pietro Vernotico and will open a showroom. Modugno's father unfortunately suicide in 1960 to die because he or she will be diagnosed with an incurable disease.
In 1955 to RCA Records for the old tail coat that causes a slight problem with the censorship of the time towards the end of the song "a moment of love that never again will return" is changed to "To a wedding dress first and last his love "he did change since at that time expressions that alludessero physical contact was considered immoral, the same Malaya will declare later that this song was inspired by the story of Prince Raimondo Lanza di Trabia (husband of actress Olga Villi), who had committed suicide in November of 1954, at the age of 39 years by jumping from the window of his palace in Via Sistina in Rome. In 1957 participates in Naples with Aurelio Festive iron, with the song "Lazzarella wrote with Pall.
In 1958 the protagonist of Sanremo Festival with the song Nel Blu dipinto di Blu written by Franco Migliacci. Performs at the Sullivan Show, the most popular television program of the United States, at this time the Americans say his MR. Flying. In 1960 he participates in the film Appuntamento a Ischia with Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia and Mina. In 1961 participated in the musical comedy Rinaldo in Garinei and John, Modugno composes the music for the show. Rinaldo in camp is broadcast by RAI. In 1966 he met Pasolini film works with the hawks and the sparrows, music by Ennio Morricone, Modugno collaborated also with Salvatore Quasimodo. After his time in 1964 to 1968, he switched to Curci Fonit returns to RCA Italiana. In 1984 while recording the broadcast of Channel 5 The moon in the well, in the studios of Cologno Monzese suffers stroke, the doctor on duty did not notice the seriousness of his condition, and told him to take an aspirin and go home. On the night his condition is more severe, and was rushed to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, after a few days he was transferred to the neurosurgical ward of Niguarda and later in a Roman clinic, was forced to a long rehabilitation period of three months. In 1986, impressed by the activities to assist disabled people became interested of the initiatives of the radical party, for which he was a candidate in the general election of 1987, and was elected to the Chamber of deputies of the X term, from which he resigned on 18 April of 1990, following the resignation from his seat in the Senate by Gianfranco Salihin takes over in the Senate, where it will sit until the end of the term.During his time in Parliament, Modugno pledged in favour of the rights of persons with disabilities and protection of artists. Domenico Modugno are very in favor of sick in the Agrigento psychiatric hospital where the sick were living in inhuman conditions, succeeding in 1988 to close the hospital. In 1990 he was elected, in Agrigento city councilman. On 26 August 1993 held in Rome a great concert for lifetime achievement, during the concert I declare in front of everyone: "I beg your pardon, but hunger would also said to be Japanese," referring to the episode of when you did go to Sicily. The same year affects his last song, arranged by Mo Stephen Borzi "dolphins" with his son Massimo Modugno. Domenico Modugno died on 6 August 1994 at his home in Lampedusa in front of rabbit Island, died of a heart attack at the age of 66 years.
Filmography
1949/ Viggiù Fire Department, directed by Mario Mattoli
1951 / Destiny, directed by Enzo Di Gianni
1951/ Beautiful waitress presence offered, directed by Giorgio Pàstina
1951/ Filumena Marturano, directed by Eduardo De Filippo
1952/ Trial against unknown persons, directed by Guido Brignone
1952/ Carica eroica, directed by Francesco De Robertis
1953/ The caravan of sin, directed by Pino Mercanti
1953/ Eeasy years, directed by Luigi Zampa
1954/ That's life, (segment "La Giara), directed by Giorgio Pàstina
1954/ Holiday of love, directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois
1954/ Red and black, directed by Domenico Paolella
1954/ Knights of the Queen, directed by Mauro Bolognini
1955/ From here to the inheritance, directed by Riccardo Freda
1955/ From here to the inheritance, directed by Riccardo Freda
1955/ Penguins are looking at us, directed by Guido Leoni
1955/ The Red cloak, directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese
1955/ Songs from across Italy, directed by David Packman
1956/ Goes on at night, directed by Gian Paolo Callegari
1956/ The wanderings, by Hugo Fregonese
1957/ The Adventures of the Three Musketeers, directed by Joseph Lerner
1957/ The Unbeatable Sword, directed by Hugo Fregonese
1957/ Lazzarella, directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1957/ Husbands in the city, directed by Luigi Comencini
1958/ Me, mom and you, direct by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
1958/ The King's Sparrows, direct by Joseph Lerner
1958/ Dangerous Wives, direct by Luigi Comencini
1959/ Europe at night, direct by Alessandro Blasetti
1959/ In the blue painted blue, direct by Pietro Tellini
1959/ Destination Sanremo, direct by Domenico Paolella
1959/ Naples is all a song, direct by Ignazio Ferronetti
1959/ Esterina, direct by Carlo Lizzani
1959/ Bloody cloaks and swords, direct by Frank Mc Donald e Nathan H.Juran
1960/ Sanremo, The Big Challenge, direct by Piero Vivarelli
1960/ Adua and her companions, direct by Antonio Pietrangeli
1960/ Appointment in Ischia, direct by Mario Mattoli
1960/ Holidays in Argentina,direct by Guido Leoni
1961/ The honored society, direct by Riccardo Pazzaglia
1961/ Universal Judgment, direct by Vittorio De Sica
1963/ Everything is music, direct by Domenico Modugno
1966/ Birds and birds, direct by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1966/ For a handful of songs, direct by Josè Luis Merino
1967/ Three bites in the apple, direct by Alviz Ganzer
1968/ Italian Capriccio, direct by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1972/ The Scientific Purpose, direct by Luigi Comenicini
1974/ The skid, direct by Alfredo Malfatti e Salvatore Samperi
1975/ Crying.... The phone, direct by Lucio De Caro
1976/ The Violin Master, direct by Giovanni Fago
1983/ FF.SS. That is ... that led me to do over in Posilippo if you don't love me anymore, direct by Renzo Arbore .
Televisione
1956/ The Three Musketeers
1965/ Scaramouche
1975/ The Marquis of Roccaverdina
1972/ A stroke of luck
1977/ Don Giovanni in Sicily
1984/ Western of Our Things
Prosa Televisiva Rai
1956/ L’Alfiere, by Carlo Alianello, direct by Anton Giulio Majano
Attore Teatrale
1952/ The Gentleman's Bourgeois
1954/ Upstream
1955/ Italy Saturday night
1956/ Flood
1958/ The sulfur rose
1961/ Rinaldo in field
1963/ Thomas of Amalfi
1965/ The Goat Island
1968/ Liola
1969/ I waterfall a girl in the pot
1971/ Don't wake the Lady
1973/ The Threepenny opera
1979/ Cyrano
1981/ Man who met himself
Songs
18 August
Home will be back together
The camp of bandits
Goodbye ... goodbye
Now forget about it
Ouch, purparu
Hallelujah Amara terra mia
Bitter my flower
Love never
The anniversary
Apocalypse
Hang a yellow ribbon
Armand d ' Abdalah
The Adventure
The flag
Sea bath
Balla balla
Ballad for a madman
Beautiful
Bordolino
Lu Brigante
Merry Christmas to all over the world
Cadets of Gascony
Cain
Calatafimi
Takes to the city
Cangaceiro
Cantu of Abdalah
The cat's song
Song of Cyrano
Or Ccafe
Cavaddruzzu
Cavaddu tea de la mine
Chicory (sung with his wife Franca Gandolfi)
White Horse
What is a kiss
What are the clouds
What a mess
What do I care ... to me
That you love like us
How did
As a tyrant
Comedy is over
With that beautiful face
With you I can't resist
So beautiful and so alone
Cucciola
From my rear window
Datimi ' nu Tobi D'Ali
Dolphins (Duet with son Massimo Modugno)
You have to trust me
Diciasettemilalire
Behind the love
God, how I love you
Bullet train coming from. ...
Tell her I'm happy
Tomorrow we begin again
Sunday
Don G
Curly Woman
Beautiful Women
After She
Where when De Woche
Duet Yes or not (Duet with Delia Scala)
And ' beautiful ' or sea
And God created woman
And looks
Bear's tale
Butterflies
Luxury females
Le Fleurs et L'Amour
Maybe she loves me
Lu Frasulinu
The Cage
Day to day or day to day
Young love
The Wanderer
Hello love
Homme et la montagen
IO mammeta e tu
I have been fighting
I sinner
I will find you
I live here
Tears of love
Lazzarella
Letter from a soldier
Free
Distance (The)
Wolves and sheep
Mackie Messere
Maestro di violino
Magaria
Mago de Roses
Malarazza
Bad dog
Mafia
Women sailors and woe
Mom
Husbands in town
Lu Realsworld
Melody of the storyteller
Wonderful
Month and September
My daughter
Give me the charge
Million sparks
Mille bolle blu
Thousand fami
Milletrè
Minaturi
My dear fall
I've entered the soul
Dangerous wife
Dead guitars
Mparame in vulè well
Musciu niuri (black cat or Kitty black)
Nose
Music
Na baby disease
Neither with you nor without you
In good times and bad
In the blue painted blue
Drunken Orchestra
Paths of glory
Clown in paradise
Pasquale is a disgrace
Pasqualino Maharajah
The Sparrow
None of my love
Fear of losing you
Snow a year ago
Crazy in love
Nina and lu capurali
One way or a flower
Ninna nanna de lu purparu
Cry the phone
On the one hand a flower
Nisciuno bit sapè
It rains
No, my child
Pisci sword
We called it love
Pira d'oru
No longer alone
Pizza there in tomato sauce in Italy
Don't cry, Maria
I could not bind you to me
Not stay among the angels
Fabulous afternoon
You are no longer my baby
Closed door
Never let it be
Instead of me
You are not worthy
Trial love
Night of my love
Puparu
When a friend goes away
This is the B side
Night long night
La Novia
This is my life
Naked
Southern boy
Nu me anything
Reggio Calabria
Endless ocean sea
Resta cu ' mme
Ojalà
Recalling with tenderness
Olympia
Awakening
Now that salt day
Romantica
Salinaru
Terramante
Saint Valentine's Day
Head full of dreams
The crush
I love you, I love you
Scarcagnulu
Sceccu Lagnosu
Three burros and three robbers
Silver trumpet
You do a great thing
God willing
Tu si ' or sea
If a Cable Guy
Blue Suit
Selene
The hawks and the sparrows
The Lady at the side
Hey tv
Sicilien à Paris
Va, Va, Va
Yes, yes, yes
Old guitar
Sympathy
The Old Man
Old Frack
Si tu vas
Harvest day and night
A soldier
Vale of summers
Vale de sciroccu
Sun ill
O Vesuvio
O Sole mio
A trip to the Moon
Sun, Sun, Sun
Come away (my friend)
Vincent Salas
Over the rooftops love my crazy Blues
Moon spell
Viva America
Vitti ' na crozza
Or Mirror
Tonight I pay
History of Mimmo Modugno
Strada ' nfosa
Sounds, Comrade
The Sveglietta
Tamburru de la guerra
Tambureddu
Many fa
Hush hush sweet sweet
78 rpm discography
La ciociara/Lullaby (Rca Italiana)
Musciu niuru/Lu Pu (Rca Italy)
The Curly Woman/Lu Pisces Sword (Rca Italy)
The Alarm/The Boat of Abdalah (Rca Italy)
Lu Wizard of roses/Cavaddruzzu (Rca Italy)
Sirinata dispittusa/Scaragnulu ' na (Rca Italy)
Lu minaturi/Nina and lu capuraland (Rca Italy)
Cavaddu tea de la minera/Vale de sciroccu (Rca Italy)
Ninna Nanna de lu Puparu/Lu sciccareddu
Lu mistress of rose/Cavaduzzu
Sirinata dispittusa/Scarcagnulu ' na
The lady next door/the snow a year ago
Lu minaturi/Nin and corporal lu/Lazzarella/Strada ' nfosa
Old guitar/Lu tambureddu/Nel blu dipinto di blu/Nisciuno bit sapè
Lagnosu/Lu Lu sceccu tamburu de la guerra/O ' ccafe/Pasqualino Maharajah
Maria/Vitti na crozza As '' dangerous/wife/first
Vecchio Frack/Sun, Sun, Sun/Rain/Twenty summers
Muisetto/Io mammeta e tu/Night long night
33 Rpm
The successes of Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno and her guitar-A poet, a painter, a musician
The road of success
Domenico Modugno
Domenico is always Domenico
Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno/Modugno Siciliano
Modugno
God, how I love you
Nose/I Mom and You