Salvatore Adamo

Salvatore Adamo

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. 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. He first gained popularity throughout Europe and later in the Middle East, Latin America, 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 songs. Since 2001 Adamo holds the Belgian noble title of Ridder, similar to the English title of "Knight". He became an officer of the French Légion d'honneur in 2005 and a Commander in the Order of the Star of Italy in 2015. He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2016 for his influence on Japanese popular music. The father of Adamo, Antonio, emigrated to Belgium in February 1947 to work as a colliery worker in the mines of Marcinelle. Four months later his wife, Concetta, and their son, Salvatore, joined him in the town of Ghlin, before moving to Jemappes (Mons). In 1956, Salvatore was bedridden for a year with meningitis. Salvatore's parents did not want their son to become a miner, so he went to a Catholic school run by the Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes. By 1960, the family of Antonio and Concetta Adamo had seven children overall. Salvatore was a dedicated student at school and distinguished himself in music and the arts. Adamo's early influences were the poetry of Victor Hugo and Jacques Prévert, the music of Jacques Brel and French singer-songwriters like Georges Brassens and Charles Aznavour, and the Italian canzonette. He started singing and composing his own songs from an early age. His debut was in a Radio Luxembourg competition, where he participated as singer and composer of the song "Si j'osais" ("If I dared"), winning the competition's final held in Paris on 14 February 1960. Adamo's first hit was "Sans toi, ma mie", in 1963, from his debut album 63/64. He followed this with a series of hits, the most famous being "Tombe la neige" ("The snow falls") in 1963, "La nuit" ("The Night") in 1964, "Mes mains sur tes hanches" ("My hands on your hips") in 1965 and "Inch'Allah". The self-penned "Petit bonheur" ("Little Happiness") sold over one million copies by April 1970, and was awarded a gold disc. Adamo has sold over 100 million copies of recordings worldwide. He has recorded in many languages and, besides France and Belgium, had hits in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and also in Japan, where he toured repeatedly. He has had hits and toured also in Latin America and throughout the Middle East. ... Source: Article "Salvatore Adamo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For: Acting

Born: Comiso, Sicily, Italy, 1943-11-01

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Les Arnaud	André Arnaud	53
2	1970	The Comeuppance	Philippe	46
3	1979	Carlos Numéro 1	Self	0
4	1998	Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur		73
5	1999	Alexandra – die Legende einer Sängerin	Self	70
6	2012	Lili David	Self	0
7	2014	Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui		80
8	2015	Leurs voix pour l'espoir - 4ème édition	Self	0
9	2017	Les Belges ça ose tout	Self (archive footage)	55
10	2020	Allez viens je t’emmène dans les sixties	Self	0
11	2021	Salvatore Adamo: A Belgian Success Story	Self	60
12	2021	Chroniques de l'âge tendre	Self	80
13	2022	Salvatore Adamo, ma vie, la vraie	Self	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
2	1957	Zum blauen Bock	Self	60
3	1957	Aktuelle Schaubude	Self	60
4	1959	Discorama	Self	0
5	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
6	1963	Viña del Mar International Song Festival	Self - Musical Guest	47
7	1963	Ready Steady Go!	Self	70
8	1964	Einer wird gewinnen	Self	70
9	1964	Die Drehscheibe	Self	60
10	1964	Der goldene Schuß	Self	60
11	1966	Von uns für Sie	Self	0
12	1967	Europarty	Self	0
13	1968	Starparade	Self	0
14	1968	Night-Club	Self	0
15	1968	À bout portant	Self	80
16	1969	Die ZDF-Hitparade	Self	0
17	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
18	1971	Disco	Self	0
19	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self - Singer	80
20	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self	80
21	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
22	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
23	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self	18
24	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self - Musician	18
25	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
26	1972	Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?	Self	0
27	1974	Die Montagsmaler	Self	0
28	1975	Musik ist Trumpf	Self	60
29	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
30	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
31	1975	Système 2	Self	0
32	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
33	1975	Numéro un	Self (archive footage)	60
34	1976	30 millions d'amis	Self	58
35	1976	Les Jeux de 20 heures	Self	0
36	1977	Fan School	Self	73
37	1977	Telespiele	Self	0
38	1979	Die Pyramide	Self - Musician	60
39	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
40	1984	La Chance aux chansons	Self	40
41	1985	Melodien für Millionen	Self	0
42	1985	Victoires de la musique	Self	20
43	1987	40° à l'ombre	Self	60
44	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
45	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
46	1987	Téléthon	Self	50
47	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
48	1991	Musik liegt in der Luft	Self - Singer	0
49	1996	De pé a pá	Self	65
50	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
51	2001	Star Academy	Self	64
52	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
53	2016	Amanda	Self	0
54	2019	Les plus belles comptines d'Okoo		0
55	2022	Un dimanche à la campagne	Self	90

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