Gianni Morandi the Legend! He made his debut in 1962 and quickly placed high at or won
In 1970, he represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest with “Occhi di ragazza”. His career went into a decline in the 1970s but underwent a revival in the 1980s. He won the Festival of Sanremo in 1987 with “Si può dare di più” together with Enrico Ruggeri and Umberto Tozzi, placed second in 1995 and third in 2000 and 2022.
It is estimated that Morandi has sold 50 million recordings.
He has written a number of autobiographical books and appeared in 18 films. In TV he played Claude Jade’s husband Davide in the 1984 TV series Voglia di Volare. He also played an actor in several TV series as well as the host of popular Italian television shows.
In 1966 he married actress Laura Efrikian, with whom he played in several Musicarelli films. The couple divorced in 1979.
Morandi was chosen to be the presenter of the Sanremo Music Festival 2011, together with Belén Rodriguez and Elisabetta Canalis. They were joined by comedians Luca Bizzarri and Paolo Kessisoglu from Italia 1’s satire show Le Irene. In October 2011, he was confirmed as the presenter of the Sanremo Music Festival 2012.
At the beginning of 2016, Gianni Morandi started a “Capitani Coraggiosi Tour” with Claudio Baglioni. A double album will be published on 5 February. In 2017 he sang with Fabio Rovazzi the song “Volare”, a big hit.
In 2019 his 1964 song “In Ginocchio da te” gained renewed popularity as it was featured in one of the main scenes of the South Korean movie Parasite, which won four Oscars the following year, including Best Picture.
Morandi participated at the 2022 Sanremo Festival, where his song “Apri Tutte le Porte” finished in 3rd place, in a competition of 25 other singers. In 2023 Morandi Co-Hosts the Sanremo song festival with 2 of his colleagues. We can’t tell you how old he is but Gianni Morandi did say he was born on 11 December 1944 (grrrrr)