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Nino D'Angelo

Gaetano "Nino" d'Angelo (born 21 June 1957) is an Italian pop/folk singer. He was born to a poor family in San Pietro a Patierno, a suburb of Naples, and dropped out of school, taking jobs like ice cream vendor and wedding singer.His first album, A storia mia (Neapolitan: "My Story") was received very well, especially in Sicily. In 1979 he married Annamaria with whom he would have two sons. He started a career as an actor in sceneggiate musical dramas, a genre native to Naples, and later as a cinema actor. His first film was Celebrità, released in 1981, a star vehicle written around his singing and the first of five films he acted in that was directed or produced by Ninì Grassia. In 1982 he released the album Un jeans e una maglietta ("Jeans and a T-shirt") a… more »