Gigliola Cinquetti

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Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947) is an Italian singer.

Biography

She was born in Verona.

At the age of 16 she won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1964 singing "Non ho l'età" ("I'm not old enough"), with music composed by Nicola Salerno and lyrics by Mario Panzeri. Her victory enabled her to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 with the same song, and she went on to claim her country's first-ever victory in the event and achieve the first UK Top 20 hit with a non-English-language Eurovision song. In 1966, she recorded "Dio, come ti amo" ("God, How I Love You"), which became a world-wide hit. In 1974, she returned to the contest, again representing Italy, and finished second behind Sweden's ABBA with the song "Sì" ("Yes"), the music and lyrics of which were written by Mario Panzeri, Daniele Pace, Lorenzo Pilat, and Carrado Conti. When translated into English as "Go", this song reached the UK Top 10.

Cinquetti went on to co-host the Eurovision Song Contest 1991 with Toto Cutugno, who had brought the event to Italy with his victory in Zagreb the previous year - the country's first win in the contest since her own twenty-six years earlier.

Selected songography

["Non ho l'età"] (1964)
["Dio, come ti amo"] (1966)
["Sì"] (1974)

External links

[IMDB entry]

Eurovision winners
1950s	Lys Assia > Corry Brokken \| André Claveau \| Teddy Scholten
1960s	Jacqueline Boyer > Jean-Claude Pascal \| Isabelle Aubret \| Grethe & Jørgen Ingman \| Gigliola Cinquetti \| France Gall \| Udo Jürgens \| Sandie Shaw \| Massiel \| Frida Boccara \| Lenny Kuhr \| Lulu \| Salomé
1970s	Dana > Sévèrine \| Vicky Leandros \| Anne-Marie David \| ABBA \| Teach-In \| Brotherhood of Man \| Marie Myriam \| Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta \| Gali Atari
1980s	Johnny Logan > Bucks Fizz \| Nicole \| Corinne Hermès \| Herreys \| Bobbysocks \| Sandra Kim \| Johnny Logan \| Céline Dion \| Riva
1990s	Toto Cutugno > Carola \| Linda Martin \| Niamh Kavanagh \| Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan \| Secret Garden \| Eimear Quinn \| Katrina and the Waves \| Dana International \| Charlotte Nilsson
2000s	Olsen Brothers > Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL \| Marie N \| Sertab Erener \| Ruslana \| Elena Paparizou \| Lordi

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