Gianni Morandi

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About Gianni Morandi

Gianni Morandi (born Gian Luigi Morandi, 11 December 1944, in Monghidoro near Bologna) is an Italian pop singer, actor and television presenter.

Gianni Morandi (born Gian Luigi Morandi, 11 December 1944, in Monghidoro near Bologna) is an Italian pop singer, actor and television presenter. He won a newcomers' festival in Bellaria in 1962 and signed with RCA Italiana, and his 1960s hits include 'In ginocchio da te' (1964), 'Non son degno di te', 'Notte di ferragosto' and 'Scende la pioggia'.

He represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 with 'Occhi di ragazza' and appeared in Pietro Germi's film Le castagne sono buone the same year. In 1987 he won the Sanremo Music Festival with 'Si può dare di più', shared with Umberto Tozzi and Enrico Ruggeri. In 1988 he released the album Dalla/Morandi with Lucio Dalla, and in 2015-2016 he toured with Claudio Baglioni in the Capitani coraggiosi project.

On television he hosted the Rai 1 show C'era un ragazzo in 1999 and presented the Sanremo Festival in 2011, 2012 and 2023, the last edition together with Amadeus. He published the autobiography Diario di un ragazzo italiano in 2006 and has been named a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2005) and received the Nettuno d'oro of Bologna (2022).