Biography salvatore adamo
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Salvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo (born 1 November 1943, in Comiso, Sicily, Italy) is a Belgian – Italian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe and Latin America, but also in Japan and the United States. Now he lives in Belgium. He is of Sicilian/Italian ancestry.
Adamo is one of the most commercially successful singers in Europe. Adamo has sold over 80 million copies of his albums worldwide. He is currently living in Belgium though he has lived in France with his family. His hits include "Tombe la Neige", "Vous permettez, Monsieur?" and "Inch'Allah", all from the sixties.
Adamo's early influences were the poetry of Victor Hugo, the music of French crooners such as Jacques Prévert or Georges Brassens, and the Italian canzonette. He started singing and composing his own songs from an
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The best and most enduring talent is natural. People can acquire various skills by diligent study and practice, but are unlikely to reach the top rung of whichever ladder they seek to climb unless they possess a natural, inborn aptitude for what they want to achieve.
Salvatore Adamo is a case in point. Born in humble circumstances made worse by misfortune, he rose to stardom through natural ability and perseverance, and has been resident in the top echelon of European entertainment for three decades.
The Adamo story began in the small Sicilian market town of Comiso five minutes pas midnight on 31 October 1943. He was the first born of seven brothers and sisters, and says he can have two birthday celebrations on 31 October every year. Adamo family was poor but happy. Work was so scarce in Comiso, however, that Antonio Adamo, Salvator’s father, decided to move with his wife and children to Belgium, where he found a hard, exacting job at the coalface in one of the country’s mining
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Salvatore Adamo
Belgian musician
Salvatore Adamo (November 1, 1943) is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual citizenship. By the second half of the sixties, Adamo had become the world's second best-selling musician after The Beatles.[2] Through his career, he sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles worldwide, making him the best-selling Belgian artist of all time, and one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world.[3]
He first gained popularity throughout europe and later in the Middle East, Latin amerika, Japan, and the United States. Adamo mainly performs in French but has also sung in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish. "Tombe la neige", "La nuit", "Vous permettez, Monsieur?", "Inch'Allah" and "Petit bonheur" remain his best known