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Claudio Villa
Italian singer and actor (1926–1987)
For the comics artist, see Claudio Villa (comics).
Claudio Villa | |
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| Born | Claudio Pica (1926-01-01)1 January 1926 Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 7 February 1987(1987-02-07) (aged 61) Padua, Italy |
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| Years active | 1932–1987 |
| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Spouses | Miranda Bonansea (m. 1952; div. 1962)Patrizia Baldi (m. 1975) |
Claudio Villa (born Claudio Pica; 1 January 1926 – 7 February 1987) was an Italian singer and actor.
Biography
Tenor Claudio Villa was born Claudio Pica in the Trastevere quarter of Rome in 1926. He recorded over 3000 songs, sold 45 million records, and appeared in 25 musicals during his career.[1][2]
His parents gave him the name "Claudio" in honour of Claudio Serio. Many songs made famous by Villa, like "'A Tazza 'E Cafe'," were recorded for the Fonit Cetra label.
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Claudio Villa
In 1996, in collaboration with Claudio Baglioni, he created (both script and drawings) the comic Le vie dei colori, inspired by the Roman singer-songwriter’s song of the same name, with Dylan Dog as the protagonist. In 2006 he illustrated a story written by Tito Faraci whose characters were the Marvel Comics superheroes, published by the Italian Panini Comics: Devil/Capitan America: Doppia Morte. In 2018 he took part in the Ferrari poster competition with an illustration devoted to the GP at Monza. In 2019 he completed a special Tex story in a large format, Tex l’inesorabile, which was presented in various editions for the bookshop and the newsstand. Claudio Villa’s talent and skill have earned him numerous marks of recognition: in 1993 and 2007 he won the A.N.A.F.I. award for best draughtsman; in 1995, the prize of the jury ‘for having been able, in inheriting the covers of Tex from the great artist Galep, to stick to the classic lines of the figurative tradition of the Western while revitalizing their parameters in such a wa
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Claudio Villa: byname of Claudio Pica (1 January 1926 - Padova, February 7, 1987), born and living in the proletarian (now touristic) Trastevere quarter of Rome, in via della Lungara and via Angelo Tittoni, then with success moving to a via Folco Portinari flat, in the Monteverde nuovo middle class quarter.
He was an actor and Italian Tenor, who specialised in romantic-melodic “musica leggera”, reaching a sort of The Voice status in Italy as “il reuccio (della canzone)” - the small king, so called also because of his sanguine character. While Nilla Pizzi was the Queen.
But the baby-boomer generation disliked more and more his genre, style and virtuosisms (the long acute Grand Finale - e.g., notable in “Granada” -, bringing a stereotype operatic flavour into traditional pop or easy listening “musica leggera”). Sharp age divisions therefore emerged, so as to make music tastes become an identitarian, Weltanschaung space of generational divide, at the time of ‘50s rock (with Little Tony, Italy’s Elvis), then the ‘60s new pop (many thousands of cave bands, also in Italy). All this was
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