Ornella Vanoni - Italian singer - September 22, 1934 - November 21, 2025

Ornella Vanoni; 22 September 1934 – 21 November 2025) was an Italian singer and songwriter. At the time of her death, she was one of the longest-standing Italian musical artists, having started performing in 1956. During her long career, she released about 112 works between LP, EPs and greatest hits albums, and sold over 65 million records, being considered one of the most popular interpreters of Italian pop music.

Vanoni started her artistic career in 1960 as a theatre actress. She mostly performed in Bertolt Brecht works, under the direction of Giorgio Strehler at his Piccolo Teatro in Milan. At the same time, she started a music career. The folklore and popular songs she explored in her early records, especially the ones about the criminal underworld in Milan (Canzoni della Mala), resulted in her receiving the nickname cantante della mala ("Underworld Singer") for singing Milanese dialect songs on that genre.

Vanoni scored two major hits in 1963 with "Senza fine" and "Che cosa c'è", both written for her by Gino Paoli. In 1964 she won the Festival of Neapolitan song with "Tu si na cosa grande". In the following years, she took part in a series of Festivals of Italian song in Sanremo with the songs "Abbracciami forte" (1965), "Io ti darò di più" (1966), "La musica è finita" (1967), "Casa Bianca" (1968), and "Eternità" (1970). "Casa Bianca", which finished second in 1968, was the subject of a copyright dispute between the composer of the song, Don Backy, and the Clan Celentano label.

In the late 1960s, Vanoni recorded "Una ragione di più", "Un'ora sola ti vorrei", "L'appuntamento" (a cover of the Brazilian song "Sentado à beira do caminho" by Erasmo Carlos and Roberto Carlos) and "Non dirmi niente", a cover of Burt Bacharach's "Don't Make Me Over". In 1972 she sang "Quei giorni insieme a te", the theme from Lucio Fulci's critically acclaimed mystery thriller film Don't Torture a Duckling.[citation needed]

More Infos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornella_Vanoni

Ornella Vanoni - Adesso (1999) - Full Album

Ornella Vanoni - Rossetto e cioccolato

Ornella Vanoni - Domani è un altro giorno (Live 1973)

 

I had forgotten that she was "the" singer of "L'appuntamento," which I rediscovered in a scene from the heist film "Twelve," I think… A magnificent song and singer! Thank you to her, her voice will forever be etched in our hearts!

Ornella Vanoni - L'Appuntamento

 

No Ornella una delle mie preferite. One of my favourite singer

 

RIP Great woman and great singer. Incredible career.