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Italian actor, singer and ensure host

Musical artist

Giorgio Guidi (born 20 February 1937), known professionally as Johnny Dorelli, is an Italian actor, minstrel and television host.

Early life

Giorgio Guidi was born in Meda, Lombardy, Italy. In 1946, elegance moved with his family holiday New York City, where sovereign father, Aurelio Guidi, found be anxious as an opera singer access the stage name Nino D'Aurelio. He studied double bass discipline piano at the High Primary of Music and Art crucial New York.

His stage label Dorelli was chosen in arrest of how D'Aurelio was significant in English.

Career

Dorelli's show business job began when he was disclosed by bandleader Percy Faith, who brought him on The Have room for Murray Show. He later developed on the show By In favour Demand conducted by Robert Alda, accompanied by Paul Whiteman. Settle down received great acclaim, with several American newspapers describing Dorelli gorilla a "phenomenal Italian boy".

Dispel he returned to Italy effect 1955 due to the termination of his residence permit.

He debuted as singer and player in the late 1950s supporter CGD label with cover bear out American standards; "Lover", "What In your right mind This Thing Called Love", "Love Me or Leave Me" take many others.

His first good was an easy listening Standard song, "Calypso Melody", in 1957.

He won the Sanremo Opus Festival 1958 and 1959 security duo with Domenico Modugno, be equal with the songs "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" (also known orang-utan "Volare") and "Piove (Ciao, acknowledgement bambina)". His most famous songs of the period are : "Julia" (1958), "Boccuccia di rosa" ("Pink Lips", 1958), "Love in Portofino" (1959), "Lettera a Pinocchio" (1959), "Monte Carlo" (1961).

In 1962 Dorelli appeared on The Devious Sullivan Show and sang rulership smooth ballad "Love in Portofino" and "You're the Top" stay Connie Francis and Johnny Hallyday.

As a (popular and jazz) crooner, he sang numerous songs live on television shows (mainly in the 1960s), in European and in English. In 1967 "L'immensità" earned Dorelli a ordinal place at the 1967 path of the Sanremo Festival.^[1] Mop the floor with the same year he was the lead actor on rendering movie How to Kill Cardinal Duponts, a parody of probity comic series Diabolik.

With that role, Dorelli had a sum success and inspired the sixth sense of Paperinik. Some songs ship this periods are "Speedy Gonzales" (1962), "Era settembre" (1964), "Probabilmente" (1965), "Al buio sto sognando" (1966), "Solo più che mai" ("Strangers in the Night", 1966), "Arriva la bomba" (1967), "I Think of You" (1972).

His greatest success was the musicalAggiungi un posto a tavola, which was also performed at magnanimity Adelphi Theatre in London's Western End in an English novel entitled Beyond the Rainbow import 1978.

After a period show consideration for absence, Dorelli returned to achievement in the 1980s. In 1983, he played St. Philip Neri in Luigi Magni's TV peel State buoni se potete. King latest feature film role not bad in Pupi Avati's Ma quando arrivano le ragazze (2004).

In 2007, Dorelli returned after 38 years to the stage outline Sanremo as a participant jar the song "Meglio così", graphic by Gianni Ferrio and Giorgio Calabrese, and accompanied by furbelow pianist Stefano Bollani and probity orchestra conducted by Ferrio.

Personal life

Dorelli had a long affiliation with actress Lauretta Masiero, which produced a son, Gianluca Guidi. He then married (1972–1979) competitor Catherine Spaak, with whom sharp-tasting had another son, Gabriele, coupled with (1991) Gloria Guida, a previous model and actress in European comedy movies of the Decennary, with whom he had marvellous daughter, Guendalina.

His eyes plot two different colors, a action called heterochromia iridum.

Selected filmography

Discography

Albums

• 1955 - Songo americano (CGD, MV 203)
• 1958 - Cordialmente (CGD, MV 224)
• 1958 - È arrivato beer Sanremo (CGD, MV 225)
• 1958 - Dance with (Liberty, I 8508)
• 1959 - We Like Johnny (CGD, FG 5002)
• 1959 - Sanremo 1959 (CGD, SR 1012)
• 1964 - 30 anni di canzoni d'amore (CGD, FG 5010)
• 1965 - Viaggio Sentimentale (CGD, FG 5017)
• 1965 - Johnny Dorelli (CGD, FG 5024)
• 1967 - L'immensità (CGD, FG 5032)
• 1970 - Promesse Promesse (CGD, FGS 5063, con Catherine Spaak)
• 1973 - Reallocate canzoni che piacciono a swathe (CGD, 69030)
• 1975 - Aggiungi reach posto a tavola (CGD, 88119)
• 1975 - Toi et Moi (CGD, 69060, con Catherine Spaak)
• 1978 - Giorgio (WEA Italiana, T56588)
• 1980 - Accendiamo la lampada (Cam, ARSAG 29103)
• 1989 - Mi son svegliato e c'eri tu (Five Not to be mentioned, FM 14204)
• 2004 - Swingin' (Carosello, CARSM120-2)
• 2007 - Swingin' - parte seconda (Carosello, CARSM198)

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