
Salvatore Adamo
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.
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- 2022 · Un dimanche à la campagne as Self
- 2022 · Salvatore Adamo, ma vie, la vraie as Self
- 2021 · Chroniques de l'âge tendre as Self
- 2021 · Salvatore Adamo: A Belgian Success Story as Self
- 2020 · Allez viens je t’emmène dans les sixties as Self
- 2019 · Les plus belles comptines d'Okoo as
- 2017 · Les Belges ça ose tout as Self (archive footage)
- 2016 · Amanda as Self
- 2015 · Leurs voix pour l'espoir - 4ème édition as Self
- 2014 · Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui as
- 2012 · Lili David as Self
- 2004 · Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel as Self
- 2001 · Star Academy as Self
- 1999 · Alexandra – die Legende einer Sängerin as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur as
- 1996 · De pé a pá as Self
- 1991 · Musik liegt in der Luft as Self - Singer
- 1990 · Stars 90 as Self
- 1987 · Téléthon as Self
- 1987 · Le monde est à vous as Self
- 1987 · Sacrée soirée as Self
- 1987 · 40° à l'ombre as Self
- 1985 · Victoires de la musique as Self
- 1985 · Melodien für Millionen as Self
- 1984 · La Chance aux chansons as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1979 · Carlos Numéro 1 as Self
- 1979 · Die Pyramide as Self - Musician
- 1977 · Telespiele as Self
- 1977 · Fan School as Self
- 1976 · Les Jeux de 20 heures as Self
- 1976 · 30 millions d'amis as Self
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self
- 1975 · Numéro un as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · Système 2 as Self
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1975 · Musik ist Trumpf as Self
- 1974 · Die Montagsmaler as Self
- 1972 · Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich? as Self
- 1972 · Midi trente as Self
- 1972 · Ein Kessel Buntes as Self
- 1972 · Ein Kessel Buntes as Self - Musician
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- 1971 · Cadet Rousselle as Self
- 1971 · Dalli Dalli as Self - Singer
- 1971 · Dalli Dalli as Self
- 1971 · Disco as Self
- 1971 · Samedi soir as Self
- 1970 · The Comeuppance as Philippe
- 1969 · Die ZDF-Hitparade as Self
- 1968 · À bout portant as Self
- 1968 · Night-Club as Self
- 1968 · Starparade as Self
- 1967 · Les Arnaud as André Arnaud
- 1967 · Europarty as Self
- 1966 · Von uns für Sie as Self
- 1964 · Der goldene Schuß as Self
- 1964 · Die Drehscheibe as Self
- 1964 · Einer wird gewinnen as Self
- 1963 · Ready Steady Go! as Self
- 1963 · Viña del Mar International Song Festival as Self - Musical Guest
- 1961 · Musik aus Studio B as Self
- 1959 · Discorama as Self
- 1957 · Aktuelle Schaubude as Self
- 1957 · Zum blauen Bock as Self
- 1955 · What Am I? as Self