Salvatore Adamo

Salvatore Adamo

Known for: Acting
Biography: 1943-11-01 (81 years old)

Biography

Salvatore Adamo (November 1, 1943) is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual citizenship. By the second half of the sixties, Adamo had become the world's second best-selling musician after The Beatles. Through his career, he sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles worldwide, making him the best-selling Belgian artist of all time, and one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world.


He first gained popularity throughout Europe and later in the Middle East, Latin America, Japan, and the United States. Adamo mainly performs in French but has also sung in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish. "Tombe la neige", "La nuit", "Vous permettez, Monsieur?", "Inch'Allah" and "Petit bonheur" remain his best known songs.


Since 2001 Adamo holds the Belgian noble title of Ridder, similar to the English title of "Knight". He became an officer of the French Légion d'honneur in 2005 and a Commander in the Order of the Star of Italy in 2015. He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2016 for his influence on Japanese popular music.


The father of Adamo, Antonio, emigrated to Belgium in February 1947 to work as a colliery worker in the mines of Marcinelle. Four months later his wife, Concetta, and their son, Salvatore, joined him in the town of Ghlin, before moving to Jemappes (Mons).


In 1956, Salvatore was bedridden for a year with meningitis.


Salvatore's parents did not want their son to become a miner, so he went to a Catholic school run by the Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes. By 1960, the family of Antonio and Concetta Adamo had seven children overall. Salvatore was a dedicated student at school and distinguished himself in music and the arts.


Adamo's early influences were the poetry of Victor Hugo and Jacques Prévert, the music of Jacques Brel and French singer-songwriters like Georges Brassens and Charles Aznavour, and the Italian canzonette. He started singing and composing his own songs from an early age. His debut was in a Radio Luxembourg competition, where he participated as singer and composer of the song "Si j'osais" ("If I dared"), winning the competition's final held in Paris on 14 February 1960.


Adamo's first hit was "Sans toi, ma mie", in 1963, from his debut album 63/64. He followed this with a series of hits, the most famous being "Tombe la neige" ("The snow falls") in 1963, "La nuit" ("The Night") in 1964, "Mes mains sur tes hanches" ("My hands on your hips") in 1965 and "Inch'Allah". The self-penned "Petit bonheur" ("Little Happiness") sold over one million copies by April 1970, and was awarded a gold disc.


Adamo has sold over 100 million copies of recordings worldwide. He has recorded in many languages and, besides France and Belgium, had hits in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and also in Japan, where he toured repeatedly. He has had hits and toured also in Latin America and throughout the Middle East. ...


Source: Article "Salvatore Adamo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Filmography

all 68

self 62

TV Shows 53

Movies 15

Original Music Composer
Mineurs

Mineurs (2007)

Movie
Self - Musician
Die Pyramide

Die Pyramide (1979)

TV
Self / Self (archive footage)
Numéro un

Numéro un (1975)

TV
Self / Self - Musician
Ein Kessel Buntes

Ein Kessel Buntes (1972)

TV
Self / Self - Singer
Dalli Dalli

Dalli Dalli (1971)

TV
André Arnaud / Songs / Vocals
Les Arnaud

Les Arnaud (1967)

Movie
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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1943-11-01 (81 years old)

Birth Place
Comiso, Italy

Height
1.71-meter

Siblings
Délizia

Citizenships
Italy, Belgium

Residences
Uccle - Ukkel, Belgium

Also Known As
Adamo

Awards
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Victory of honor, honorary citizen of Mons, Commander of the Mérite wallon, Officer of the Order of the Crown

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