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Post by petrolino on Jan 5, 2020 5:17:24 GMT
She played piano, guitar, saxophone ... and had a unique sense of timing and phrasing.
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Jan 5, 2020 7:31:10 GMT
Big fan, Baby Pop is among my all-time top 10 albums.
My favorite song of hers:
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 9, 2020 0:35:44 GMT
One of my favorite singers I have 16 of her albums  |
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Post by DrKrippen on Jul 25, 2021 19:52:54 GMT
Love her. Great songwriter, great beauty. Love this thread.
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Post by petrolino on Aug 20, 2022 23:40:47 GMT
# Eurovision Friendship : Gigliola Cinquetti & France Gall
"Italy is hosting Eurovision for the first time in 31 years after the glam pop band Måneskin won the 2021 edition with a showstopping performance of Zitti e buoni. The band from Rome have enjoyed phenomenal success since, including supporting the Rolling Stones at a concert in the US in November. Måneskin’s victory, along with the fact that Italy is this year’s host, has helped revive the contest in a country that has withdrawn from the event on numerous occasions over the last 66 years, citing lack of interest.
In 1974, Rai, the state broadcaster, censored the competition over fears that the title of Italy’s song, Si, sung by Gigliola Cinquetti, who was Italy’s first Eurovision winner in 1964, might have given a nod to the public to vote yes in support of a forthcoming referendum on divorce. Italy last withdrew from the competition in 1997, returning in 2011.
Now the country is the most successful among the “big five” automatic qualifiers, along with France, Germany, Spain and the UK, after finishing in the top 10 in eight of the last 10 contests. Mahmood, who came second in 2019, is again competing this year, singing Brividi, a classic Italian ballad, in duet with Blanco.
“It’s hard to compare this contest with the last one, although we’re very happy to be representing Italy on home soil,” said Mahmood. “We’re really ready for it, and hope to give it our best so that our music gets better known abroad.”
Tonina Torrielli got her big break singing competitively in the Sanremo music festival, which began a few years earlier and was the inspiration behind the Eurovision song contest. Still wildly popular in Italy today, whoever wins Sanremo goes on to sing for the country at Eurovision."
- Angela Giuffrida, The Guardian (article published Saturday 14th May, 2022)
"Hardcore Eurovision-sceptics will doubt it, but there was a time when the continent's annual music-fest did actually produce good music. The golden age of Eurovision - like the golden age of football, television sitcoms and most other things which really matter - was the 1970s.
The strength of 70s Eurovision was shown by the quality of the songs that didn't win. Italy's Gigliola Cinquetti would have romped home in any other decade with her beautiful ballad Si, but had the bad luck in 1974 to come up against a Swedish outfit called Abba. The 1975 contest was another classic, won by the Dutch group Teach-In, with Ding a Dong, arguably the best winning song of all time."
- Neil Clark, The Guardian (article published Friday 19th May, 2006)
Gigliola Cinquetti (born 20 December 1947, Verona, Veneto, Italy)
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