Domenico Moduno biography

Monument to Domenico Moduno, singer, composer, actor and public figure. Brief biography of Domenico Moduno Ital. Domenico Modungno; January 9, Polinyano-a-Mar-August 6, Lampeduza Island-Italian singer, composer, actor and public figure. Born in the town of Polinyano-a-Mar in the Italian province of Bari Apulia. From an early age, he dreamed of becoming an actor, and in the year, after serving in the army, he entered an acting school.

Even during his studies, he got a role in the first film version of the play by Eduardo de Filippo “Filumen Marturano”, as well as in a number of other films. In the year, his song Lazzarella performed by Aurelio Fjerro took second place at the Festival Della Canzone Napoletana festival, which brought Moduno the first fame. The song became the winner of the festival and completely unexpectedly gained immense popularity all over the world, the disks with the recording of the song diverged in huge circulations, especially in the United States.

At the end of the year, Domenico Moduno became the owner of two Grammy awards - for the best song and for the most sold record of the year. In addition, with this song, Moduno represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest, but took only third place. At the Congratulations contest dedicated to the summer anniversary of the Eurovision Song Contest contest in the year, this song took third place among the best hits of Eurovision over its entire history.

In the year, Moduno again won the music festival in San Remo, this time with the composition of Piove also known as Ciao, Ciao Bambina, and in the year I received the second prize with the Libero song. It was a very successful period in the work of Moduno, who again represented his country at Eurovision, where this time took sixth place. In the year, Moduno took first place at the San Remo festival with the song Addio ..., Addio ....

For four years later, he again won the festival with the song Dio, Come Ti Amo. With the same song, he took part in the Eurovision Contest, but divided the last position with a participant from Monaco on it without gaining a single point. In years, he focused on more classical genres as a singer and musician, participated as an actor on television and performed the main singing parties in modern opera productions.

In the year, Moduno began politics as a member of the Italian Radical Party and in June was elected deputy of the parliament from Turin. In the last years of his life, he led active social activity in the social sphere, fought against the inhuman conditions of the content of patients of a psychiatric hospital in Agridento. Domenico Moduno died as a result of a heart attack in his house on Lampez, an island in the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily.

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