Biography of Johnny Dorelli

The elegance and confidence

February 20, 1937
Born as Giorgio Guidi on February 20, 1937, in Meda around Milan. Singer, actor but also conductor has a long and eclectic career. The father is Nino d'aurelio, pop singer known in the years ' 40. George moved with his family to the USA in the year 1946: here, still very young, he approaches the world of show business by attending the High School of Music and Art in New York. Also studied piano and double bass. At the end of the years ' 40 gets noticed: Percy Faith, conductor, arranger for Tony Bennett and Doris Day, invited him to Philadelphia to participate in a contest, which then will win. Also another conductor, Paul Whiteman-a favourite of George Gershwin-invited the Italian boy to participate in a CBS contest: get 9 wins.
It is precisely in these years that he was advised to change his name, assuming the pseudonym Johnny Dorelli. Back in Italy in 1955 where contractually binds to the label CGD, Teddy Reno. Initially interprets some performances of avanspettacolo-of which we mention "the Venus with a moustache" (1956, brothers may). In 1957 he recorded his first success: "Calypso Melody". The following year he participates in Sanremo with the popular Domenico Modugno, playing the famous "Nel blu dipinto di blu". A year later the couple returns with the song "it's raining". The first partner with which it binds sentimentalmente is Juliet Maes, with whom he has a son, Gianluca Guidi (future singer, actor and Director). Among his most popular pieces of these years include "Julia," "Letter to pinocchio," "Love in Portofino", "Speedy gonzales", "My funny Valentine" and "Monte Carlo".
Johnny Dorelli then return to Sanremo Festival on other occasions, until 1969, when he competed in pairs with Caterina Caselli, with the song "the game of love". Back on the stage of the Ariston over twenty years later, in 1990, in the role of presenter. The career is divided between cinema, television and theater, collaborating with many artists. It is directed by directors such as Dino Risi, Sergio Corbucci, Pupi Avati, Steno; play along with Monica Vitti, Laura Antonelli, Gigi Proietti, Edwige Fenech, Renato Pozzetto, Nino Manfredi, Lino Banfi, Paolo Villaggio; He works on TV alongside Raimondo Vianello and Sandra Mondaini, Mina, Heather Parisi, Raffaella Carrà, Loretta Goggi. In 2004 David back on the music scene releasing the album "Swingin'", in excess of 140,000 copies. At a distance of 38 years since the last participation in the race, returns to San Remo in 2007 with the song "it's better this way".
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