Édouard-Henri Avril (21 May 1849 – 28 July 1928) was a French painter and commercial artist. Under the pseudonym Paul Avril, he was an illustrator of erotic literature. He collaborated with influential people like Octave Uzanne, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and Friedrich Karl Forberg.Avril was a soldier before starting his career in art; he was awarded with the Legion of Honour for his actions in the Franco-Prussian War.
Don Manuel García Escobar MML (19 October 1931 – 24 October 2013), better known as Manolo Escobar, was a Spanish singer of Andalusian copla and other Spanish music. He was also an actor and performed in multiple musicals. His popular songs include "El porompompero" (1962), "Mi carro" (1969), "La minifalda", and "Y viva España".
Vittoria Puccini (born 18 November 1981) is an Italian film and television actress.
Massimo "Max" Pezzali (born 14 November 1967) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
He was the principal singer and songwriter of the pop rock group 883. In 2004, he released his first solo album Il Mondo Insieme a Te. The album was successful in Italy, and since then Pezzali has remained a solo artist. Taking into account his solo work, as well as his work dating back to 883, Pezzali has sold over 10 million albums, thereby becoming one of the most popular singers in the history of Italian music.
Pietro "Piero" Pelù (born 10 February 1962) is an Italian singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the Italian band Litfiba. He was born in Florence.
In July 1999, Pelù quit Litfiba. In 2000, he released his first solo album Né buoni né cattivi. In 2002, his duet with an Indonesian popstar, Anggun, entitled "L'amore immaginato" reached No.1 in the National Italian Airplay Charts for over two months. In 2009, Back in Litfiba with historical founder Ghigo Renzulli. In 2013, he appeared as one of the four judges on The Voice of Italy.He participated at the Sanremo Music Festival 2020 with the song "Gigante".
Anna Melato (born 18 May 1952) is an Italian actress, singer and voice actor. She is best known for singing and acting in Lina Wertmüller's Love and Anarchy (1973), where she sang Nino Rota's "Canzone arrabbiata" and "El Tunin".
In the 1970s, Melato performed as a singer at popular music variety shows and festivals, including Canzonissima (1973), Sanremo Music Festival 1974 and Festivalbar (1975). She released two LPs of pop music, Domenica mattina (Dischi Ricordi, 1974) and Ritratto (RCA Italiana, 1977) and played in Sergio Citti's Beach House (1977) and Happy Hobos (1979).
In the 1980s and 1990s Melato played a role in other Italian films, including Pupi Avati's Help Me Dream (1981), Carlo Vanzina's Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982) and Wilma Labate's My Generation (1996). From 1985 onwards, she began to work more frequently in the television field and had roles in TV series such as Mai per amore (2012), A Good Season (2014), La dama velata (2015) and La porta rossa (2nd season, 2019). In 2001 she acted in Mimmo Raimondi's film Without Filter.
Melato is the sister of Mariangela Melato. She currently resides in Rome, Italy.
Mango, stage name of Giuseppe Mango (6 November 1954 – 8 December 2014), was an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for his style which fuses pop, rock, folk, world music and for his extensive vocal range. He is best known for the song "Oro", from his 1986 breakout album release Odissea. Other hits include "Lei verrà", "Mediterraneo", "Bella d'estate", "Amore per te", "Come Monnalisa", "Nella mia città" and "La rondine".
Mango has been defined by Italian music author Mario Luzzatto Fegiz as an "authentic innovator of Italian pop music" and AllMusic considers him an "Italian rock fusion innovator". He wrote songs for Italian artists such as Patty Pravo, Loredana Bertè, Andrea Bocelli, Mietta. Part of his repertoire was performed by Italian and foreign musicians, including Mina, Mia Martini, Leo Sayer, Hélène Ségara and Eleftheria Arvanitaki.
Lando Fiorini (born Leopoldo Fiorini; 27 January 1938 – 9 December 2017) was an Italian actor and singer, known primarily for having sung folk songs from Rome in Italian and Romanesco.His career started in 1961, when he took part to the musical festival Cantagiro and was noted by the duo of playwrights Garinei & Giovannini, who chose him for the role of the cantastorie in the successful musical Rugantino. He was the founder and artistic director of a cabaret nightclub, Puff, where he launched the career of several comedians, notably Lino Banfi, Enrico Montesano and Leo Gullotta.His cabaret show, Ma ‘ndo vai se il decoder non-ce l’hai, satirized Italian television.
Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay (30 January 1831 – 30 June 1913) was a French writer of vaudevilles and politician. He was born in Paris and died in Aix-les-Bains.
Jean Brochard (12 March 1893 – 17 June 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1966.