His biggest hits, such as Tu vuo’ fa’ l’Americano, Mambo Italiano and Torero were written in collaboration with the Neapolitan lyricist Nicola Salerno, who was known as Nisa.
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He then performed in live concerts and at the Sanremo Music Festival, continuing to make TV appearances until the late 1990s.Ĭarosone retired from the music scene in 1960 but madeĪ comeback at the 1975 Sanremo Music Festival He made a comeback in 1975 in a televised concert. Away from the music business, Carosone took up painting. It was even suggested that he had received criminal threats, but nothing was ever proved.
He was at the height of his career and his decision caused uproar. In 1960, Carosone made the shock announcement that he was retiring. In 1957, Carosone and his band started off a US tour with a concert in Cuba and finished off with a triumphant performance at Carnegie Hall in New York. The band was popular both in Italy and abroad during the 1950s and the songs Carosone composed, many inspired by his native city, achieved high sales after being recorded. When Van Houten left to pursue a solo career, Di Giacomo remained with Carosone and they recruited more musicians to form a new band. He was asked to put together a group for the opening of a new club and signed Dutch guitarist, Peter van Houten and Neapolitan drummer, Gegè di Giacomo, with whom he launched the Trio Carosone. He did not return to Italy until 1946, after the end of the Second World War.īack home, he had to start his career afresh and moved to Rome, where he played the piano for small bands.Ĭarosone's Tu vuo' fa' l'Americano featured He went to work as a pianist in Addis Ababa and then served in the army on the Italian Somali front.
Torero, a song released by him in 1957, was translated into 12 languages and was at the top of the US pop charts for 14 weeks.Ĭarosone studied the piano at the Naples Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella and obtained his diploma in 1937, when he was just 17. His 1956 song Tu vuo’ fa’ l’Americano - 'You want to be American' - has been used in films and performed by many famous singers right up to the present day. Renato Carosone, who became famous for writing and performing Neapolitan songs in modern times, was born Renato Carusone on this day in 1920 in Naples. Tu vuo' fa' l'Americano and Mambo Italiano Renato Carosone wrote such classic songs as Composer revived popularity of the traditional Neapolitan song
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