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Nicola Di Bari
Italian singer-songwriter and actor
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Born | Michele Scommegna 29 September 1940 (1940-09-29) (age 84) Zapponeta, Apulia, Kingdom of Italy |
Occupation | Singer |
Years active | 1959–present |
Nicola Di Bari (born 29 September 1940) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor.
He is considered one of the "sacred monsters" of Italian pop music.[1]
Life and career
Born in Zapponeta, Apulia, Di Bari was the youngest of ten children from a farming family.[2] He gave up his accountancy studies to work in Rome, and after a short stay in Rome he moved to Milan.[2] In 1962, in Cologno Monzese, he won a song contest with a song of which he was also the author, "Piano pianino".[2] In 1964 he achieved his first commercial success with the song "Amore ritorna a casa".[1] Between 1965 and 1967 he enter