Biography of Sal Da Vinci
Salvatore Michael Sorrentino, aka Sal Da Vinci, was born in New York on April 7, 1969. His father, the Italian Mario Da Vinci in the late ' 60 's working as an employee in the us metropolis, but it is also one of the greatest interpreters of Alyce which makes it one of the first interpreters of neo-Neapolitan melodic strand. Salvatore debuts in the theater with his father at the age of six, singing and reciting; afterwards also takes the same name of art (Da Vinci). In 1974 he debuted in the musical world and the song "Christmas miracle" by Alberto Sagadevan and Tony Ibrahim; the song, in which a Duet with her father, finds great success and from there it's the skit of the same name.
In 1978/79 comes the possibility of trying to enter the world of cinema, so Sal Da Vinci takes part in the film by Alberto Sagadevan "my son is innocent" with Dolores Palumbo, Carlo Taranto, Gennarino Palumbo and Joseph Abdinur; the following year turns the film, also by Saeed, "Naples story of love and revenge" by Paola Pitagora and Maria Fiore. For over ten years the stages throughout Italy mob Sal carrying around a purely popular form of entertainment: the "Act". The negative experience of not seeing ever published on disc two tracks recorded with musician James Senese, some "false promises" prospettategli and great efforts never paid off, cause him to throw in the towel for the music industry. In 1983 is the protagonist of the movie musical "' or scooter" and in the 1986 film starred by Carlo Verdone Troppo forte ", in the role of" street urchin "Capua.
The love and passion for music you can't hide it, building on the success achieved for films and loading of the support of those who truly believe in him, Sal Da Vinci returns to the fray: twenty, writes and sings songs, and in 1993 is hired by Memories with which affects two CDs. Over the years differs from acting and is dedicated to music, who in 1994 led him to participate in the second and last edition of the "Festival of Italian music" (organized by Channel 5 to create a competitive edge at Festival di Sanremo). Finished in first place with the song "True", which became a bestseller in South America ("Vida mi Vida"), sung by a young Spanish artist, selling 5 million copies even. The song opens the doors of Sal discography, where he gets polite about successes with an album that takes its name from the song. In 1995 she performed in Loreto singing for Pope John Paul II a beautiful and moving the transposition of "Salve Regina" in Latin, in front of 450,000 young people and the general public.
In 1998 he recorded his third cd with the label EMI; one of his videos, "you're divine", is one of several scheduled this year. The music video also draws attention of Eros Ramazzotti inviting Sal to take part in the initiatives of the Italian national singers. In 1999 she meets Roberto De Simone who entrusted him with the role of "the Opera buffa of Holy Thursday" that returns to the scene twenty years after the first debut with Peppe and Concetta Barra as protagonists. The show debuted on 12 January 2000 the theatre Prato (Italy) and is staged in the most prestigious Italian theatres for over two years. On September 29, 2000 the MBO publishes a cd single with the song, "Vurria saglire sulo", taken from a melodic theme by Roberto De Simone in Neapolitan archaic ' 700; a gospel of Naples with an inspired text in Italian by Maurizio Morante. Sal Da Vinci International Videoitalia Award for best interpreter and artist most voted abroad. After a subsequent album and an artistic period darkness, in 2002 back to acting in theater seasons covering also the title role in the musical "once upon a time Scugnizzi", Claudio Mattone: ben 600 replicas with which becomes champion of takings throughout Italy, winning the prize ETI as best musical for the year 2003.
These prestigious awards give back the career of Sal, who was starting to decline. On August 15, 2004 in Naples for the traditional concert of ferragosto well over 15,000 people flock to hear him. In 2004 together with Lucio Dalla and Gigi Finizio participates in the drafting and implementation of a song titled "Napule", which is inserted in the album "how many loves" by Gigi D'Alessio. In 2005 the project comes alive "Anime napoletane" followed the release of a cd and participation in a play produced by Claudio and Tullio Brick for "Napoliteatro". The following year he began a professional collaboration with comedian Alessandro Siani, for which he writes and sings the soundtrack of his film, "I'm leaving you because I love you too".
The main song of the soundtrack is "Accuminciamm a ' can't breathe" which is engraved to disk only in 2007. The 2008 sees the release of the single "Nnammuratè" and in the course of the year, finished the summer tour, join the Saturday night variety "Volami nel cuore" on RaiUno conducted by Pupo and Sadova. For the 2008/2009 season is engaged in the play/musical "song of love" which he is again the protagonist, choreographed and directed by Gino Landi, sets Caps-Ligheri. Approached to play the album of the same name by previously unreleased songs. Salt for the first time on the stage of the Ariston Theatre, the Festival of Sanremo 2009, introduced the song "I can't make you fall in love": comes in third, behind Marco Carta and Parsons.
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