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Massimo Ranieri (born in Naples, Italy Giovanni Calone, 3 May 1951), is an Italian pop singer, film and stage actor. He was born in Naples (at Santa Lucia), the fifth of eight children in the family. When he was 10, young Giovanni would sing at restaurants, wedding receptions, etc. He was discovered by a music producer about four years later and was flown to New York to record an EP under the name of Gianni Rock. He recorded four songs in 1964: Tanti auguri signora, Se mi aspetti stasera, Non chiudere la porta, and La Prima Volta. None of the records were successful, primarily because young Gianni's voice was changing. Two years later, he would re-emerge under his new stage name, Massimo Ranieri. In 1966, he made his TV debut singing "Bene Mio". A year later, he made another TV appearance singing, "Pietà per chi ti ama". In 1968, he recorded two more songs: "Da Bambino", Ma L'amore cos'è" and "Preghiera". But it wasn't until 1969 when he achieved success and became a teen idol when he sang "O Sole Mio" on live TV. Soon, in most every TV appearance he made, you could hear the girls screaming in the background. That same year, he had a string of hits: "Rita", "Se bruciasse la citta", "Quando l'amore diventa poesia", "Il mio amore resta sempre", "Rose rosse" and "Zingara". In 1970, "Vent'anni", "Sogno d'amore", "Sei l'amore mio", "Aranjuez Amore Mio", and "Candida". During that year, he decided to venture into acting. Massimo's screen debut, Metello received rave reviews from critics, and won him the David DiDonatello award for best actor for portraying the title character. He co-starred with Anna Magnani in the television film La Sciantosa, later that year. In 1971, Massimo recorded the songs "Adagio Veneziano", "Via del Conservatorio", and "Io e Te". He represented Italy in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, where he placed 5th with the song "L'Amore E' Un Attimo. " That same year, he fathered a daughter, Cristiana, out of wedlock with Franca Sebastiani. He didn't have anything to do with the raising of his daughter, saying that he was too young and inexperienced for fatherhood, and that it would be damaging to his career. He was never linked with any other woman thereafter. He didn't have any contact with his daughter until they met when she was about 20 years old. In 1972, he released the songs "Ti Ruberei", "O Surdato 'nnamurato", and "Erba di Casa Mia"; in 1973, "Amo Ancora Lei". He returned to the Eurovision Song Contest that year, in Luxembourg, to represent Italy with "Chi sarà con te", where he placed 13th. In 1974, came the singles "Te Voglio Bene Assaie", "Immagina", and "Per Una Donna". During that year, he filmed Salvo D'Acquisto, where he portrayed a carabiniere who was executed by the Nazis during World War II. When his singing career started to decline in 1975, Massimo concentrated on his acting career, both in the cinema and, most importantly, as a stage actor: he collaborated with the directors Mauro Bolognini, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Giorgio de Lullo, Giorgio Strehler and Maurizio Scaparro, performing a wide range of material from modern plays and musicals, to Molière and Shakespeare. In 1988, he made a comeback with the song, "Perdere l'amore", which won the Sanremo Festival, that year. In 1997, he made another comeback with "Ti parlerò d'amore". That same year, he did the Italian voice-over for Quasimodo in Disney's "Hunchback of Notre Dame", where he also sang Quasimodo's part as well. On 16 October 2002, Massimo Ranieri was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2004, he made his first French film, a trilogy series called Les Parisiens, where he played a street artist. In 2005, he returned on the stage with the show "Accussì Grande", after a long bout with illness, from which he fully recovered. At the start of 2007, he decided to publicly acknowledge his long-estranged daughter, and embraced her for the first time on live TV. It was a tearful reunion between father and daughter. During that year, he was in a docu-film called Civico 0, where he played Guilano, a fruit vendor, who becomes homeless after the death of his mother. In 2008, he starred in the film L'Ultimo Pulcinella. In 2009, he played the storyteller in the play, Polvere di Baghdad, directed by Maurizio Scaparro. In February 2007, he started a concert tour of Italy, titled "Canto perché non so nuotare...da 40 anni" which lasted for more than two years, with more than 500 shows, was made into a CD and a DVD, which went platinum. In 2010, Massimo was featured in Passione, a documentary about the history of music from Naples, Italy, directed by Italian-American actor, John Turturro. In November 2010, he took part in the miniseries remake of the classic play, Filumena Marturano, produced by Italian TV RAI Uno, with Mariangela Melato in the title role. Massimo portrayed Filumena's husband, Domenico Soriano.

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Sanremo Story [2008]

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Perdere L Amore 

Perdere l'Amore [2003]

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Perdere L'amore4:12

Venti Anni [2003]

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Vent'anni2:55
Erba Di Casa Mia3:40

Anni 80, Vol. 1 [1993]

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Perdere l'Amore4:12

Anni 70, Vol. 3

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Vent'anni2:55

Unknown Album

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Perdere L'Amore4:12
Fenesta Vascia3:37
Rose Rosse 
Per una Donna3:49
Via Del Conservatorio4:33
Sogno d'Amore3:07
Quando l'amore diventa poesia2:57
Cronaca Di Un Amore3:45
Ti Ruberei3:03
Tu Si Na Cosa Grande 
Erba di Casa Mia3:39
Signora Mia3:49
La Casa Di Mille Piani3:52
Mia Ragione4:13
Piangi Piangi Ragazzo5:03
Lettera di là dal mare3:38
Vent'anni 
Un Tango Per Me3:57
Immagina4:35
Canzone con le ruote3:28
Di me di te4:13
La mia mano a farfalla3:42
Lasciami dove ti pare3:13
A pansè 
Il nostro concerto 
’A casciaforte 
Caravan petrol 
Rundinella 
Abita in te 
’O guarracino 
Marechiare 
’O surdato ’nnammurato 
Questo io sono4:08
I venti del cuore 
Come è bello far l’amore quando è sera 
Signorinella 
Cara piccina 
Il canto 
Ti penso 
Pigliate ’na pastiglia 
Funiculì funiculà 
Torero 
Pierina 
I’ te vurria vasà 
A serenata ’e Pulcinella 
Tu ca nun chiagne 
Santa Lucia luntana 
Asini3:31
Lacreme napulitane 
’O Marenariello 
La nova gelosia 
Te Voglio Bene Assaje 
Chiove 
L’amore che... 
Luna rossa 
Zappatore 
Dicitincello vuje 
Guapparia 
Dove sta il poeta 
Spaccacuore 
Voce ’e notte 
Il tempo va 
Acero bianco 
Dopo il deserto4:13
Purissima Lucia 
Scalinatella 
’Na mmasciata 
Come pioveva 
La vestaglia 
Sui davanzali del tramonto 
Nuttata ’e sentimento 
Io e te 
È davvero così strano4:11
Tutto quello che ho4:07
Noi che ci amiamo4:17
’O sole mio 
Il mio amore resta sempre Teresa 
Quando 
Il canto libero del mare 
Quella porta3:44
Sei l’amore mio 
Piscatore ’e Pusilleco 
Tu non mi lascerai 
Reginella 
Simmo e Napule paisà 
Mmiezz’ ’o ggrano 
’E ccerase 
Rita 
Furturella 
Lazzarella 
Maruzzella 
Napulitanata 
Catarì 
Lu cardillo 
Da bambino 
Io, mammeta e tu 
Mi troverai 
La palummella 
Come Facette Mammeta? 

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