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1934–2025 Italy
Ornella Vanoni (22 September 1934 – 21 November 2025) was an Italian singer and songwriter. With a career spanning almost seventy years, she was one of Italy's longest-standing musical artists.
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For a poet, everything becomes material.
Milan has some beautiful areas, it is beautiful in the fog, it is a bit like a woman wearing a veil.
Trieste is a beautiful, wonderful city; all seaside cities are beautiful, but Trieste is particularly so because it is right on the sea.
Stendhal must have been high when he said that the landscape of Lombardy was the most beautiful in the world... This grey sky.
I am a courageous woman, not a strong one. I am very fragile and I pay for everything with tears and effort.
While romantic love is complicated, the love you feel for your children and grandchildren is a love made of serenity.
I am fond of very few things. I believe that every house has its own soul that must be respected. There is no point in dragging around baggage from other lives. You start over every time.
All my life I have been a passer-by and have always sought out secondary paths. I am always fascinated by what I do not know, and those are the secondary paths. And that is my goal.
The Lirico theatre was dedicated to Gaber, the two Piccolo venues to Strehler and Grassi, the Liberty building to Fo and Rame, and the Studio to Melato; there was nothing left for me, which is why I am appealing to Mayor Beppe Sala: dedicate a flowerbed in the city centre to me.
I had become Roman at the time of Rugantino. Aldo Fabrizi taught me the slower, more indolent pace of life and acting. When we went to Milan, Garinei, Giovannini and Trovajoli would put on their fur hats and take their passports like Totò and Peppino in the film. They teased me.
Was I sensual? Yes, I realised that quite early on. And yes, of course, I played on it.
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