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Nilla Pizzi
Pizzi as the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival 1952
Background information
Birth name
Adionilla Pizzi[1]
Born
(1919-04-16)16 April 1919 Sant'Agata Bolognese, Kingdom of Italy
Died
12 March 2011(2011-03-12) (aged 91)[2] Segrate, Italy
Genres
Pop
rhythm and blues
jazz
Occupation(s)
Singer
actress
Years active
1940–2011
Labels
Italdisc [it]
EMI
Ricordi
Columbia
Cetra
RCA Italiana
Équipe [it]
Musical artist
Adionilla Pizzi (Italian:[adjoˈnillaˈpittsi]; 16 April 1919 – 12 March 2011), known by her stage name Nilla Pizzi, was an Italian singer and actress.
Born in Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, she was particularly famous in Italy during the 1950s and 1960s. She is well known for winning the first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival in 1951, singing "Grazie dei fiori". In addition, the following year (1952), she finished first, second, and third with "Vola colomba [it]", "Papaveri e papere", and "Una donna prega" respectively; a presently unbeaten record.[3]
Through her Sanremo performance career, she presented a total of thirty-one songs, as well as participating three more times as a guest and once as a presenter. Endowed with a charismatic, warm voice, she is considered the most successful Sanremo singer of all time.
^Giannotti, Marcello (2001). L'enciclopedia di Sanremo (in Italian). Rome: Gremese. ISBN 9788884403797.
^"Nilla Pizzi". The Independent. 19 April 2011. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^"Anno per anno la storia del Festival". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 14 August 2023.
Adionilla Pizzi (Italian: [adjoˈnilla ˈpittsi]; 16 April 1919 – 12 March 2011), known by her stage name NillaPizzi, was an Italian singer and actress...
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RAI's radio station Rete Rossa, and its only three participants were NillaPizzi, Achille Togliani, and Duo Fasano. Starting from 1955, all editions of...
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t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
song was later covered by numerous artists, including Johnny Dorelli, NillaPizzi, Jula De Palma, Tony Dallara, Fiorello, Nico Fidenco, Miranda Martino...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
multiple songs. The winner of the festival was "Vola colomba", performed by NillaPizzi, who occupied all the podium places in that edition. Eddy Anselmi. Festival...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
Cecchetto, assisted by the actress Eleonora Vallone and by the singer NillaPizzi (winner of the festival in 1951 and 1952). The winner of the festival...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
music by Vittorio Mascheroni. The song was an Italian hit for singer NillaPizzi. The cheerful lyrics hide a political satire about inequalities between...
t e Sanremo Music Festival winners Discography 1950s NillaPizzi ("Grazie dei fiori") NillaPizzi ("Vola colomba") Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")...
San Remo, "La luna si veste d'argento", sung by Achille Togliani and NillaPizzi was accused of partial use of an earlier 1907 poem. Carlo Maria Lomartire...
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