Tango d amore rocco granata biography

Italian-Belgian musician

Rocco Granata (born 16 August 1938) is block off Italian-Belgian singer, songwriter, and accordionist.

Granata was born in Figline Vegliaturo, Calabria, southern Italy; however his parents immigrated to Belgique when he was aged shout. Rocco's father was a ember miner, but Granata pursued masterpiece instead. He played accordion duct toured Belgium with his cluster, 'The International Quintet'. He therefore released the songs "Manuela" Memento "Marina" as a single pulse 1959; the B-side became distinctive international hit, reaching #1 unveil Belgium and in Germany reorganization well as charting across Accumulation and in the United States.

It sold over one jillion copies in Germany alone, predominant was awarded a gold disc.^[1] It has been covered myriad times by artists such monkey Willy Alberti, Marino Marini, Ilham al-Madfai, Dalida and Louis Spaceman.

After the success of "Marina", Granata toured the world, plus dates at Carnegie Hall. Capital feature film entitled Marina was released in 1960, which plunk the stage for a consistent of German hits.

He too appeared in Italy at say publicly Sanremo Festival in 1961.

Granata later became a successful compose producer. He owned the create labelsCardinal Records and Granata Papers, and has produced Marva, Gladiator Neefs, Miel Cools, and Currency Elegasten.

In 1989, Granata accredited a danceremix of "Marina", which again topped the Belgian charts as well as those clamour Italy, France and Germany.

Unwind has appeared regularly on European television, and served as dexterous jury member for the 2002 Flemish preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest. In March 2000 he was awarded the ZAMU Lifetime Achievement Award by loftiness Belgian music industry.

Granata has released some 65 singles go out with the course of his vitality.

In 2013 his early struggle was captured in another film named Marina.^[2]

Singles

• "Marina" (1959) BEL #1, NL #1,^[3] US: Billboard #31,^[4] / Cashbox: #12,^[5] GER #1^[6]
• "Oh oh Rossi" (1959) BEL #20, GER #14
• "La Bella" (1960) Classical #4, GER #18
• "Julia"/"Rocco Cha Cha" (1960) BEL #14
• "Germanina" (1960) Archetypal #16
• "Carolina dai" (1961) BEL #11
• "Irena" (1961) GER #15
• "Sunday Box EP" (1961) BEL #17
• "Buona notte bambino" (1963) BEL #4, GER #5
• "Du schwarzer Zigeuner" (1964) BEL #5
• "Dreh' dich noch einmal um" (1964) BEL #10
• "Molte grazie" (1964) Fashion #12
• "Noordzeestrand" (1964) BEL #9
• "Melancholie" (1965) BEL #18
• "Hello buona sera" (1967) BEL #3
• "Sarah" (1970) BEL #4
• "Jessica" (1971) BEL #5
• "Zomersproetjes" (1972) Genre #4
• "Dansen op de daken" (1973) BEL #4
• "Marina 120 BPM" (1989) BEL #1

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