Name: Domenico

Surname: Modugno

Domenico Modugno (Polignano a Mare, January 9, 1928 - Lampedusa, August 6, 1994) was an Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, director and politician.
He is considered one of the fathers of Italian pop music and one of the most prolific artists in general. He has written and recorded about 230 songs, performed 38 films for cinema and 7 for television, as well as acted in 13 plays and hosted some television programs. He also won four Sanremo Festivals, the first of which, in 1958, with the song Nel blu painted di blu (of which he was also the author, which makes him the first singer-songwriter competing in the history of the event), universally known also as "Volare" is destined to become one of the best known Italian songs, if not the best known and hence the nickname of Mr. Volare. Modugno is also one of the two Italian singers, along with Renato Carosone, to have sold records at the time in the United States without recording them in English. In his last years he was also a deputy and leader of the Radical Party. He is among the Italian artists who have sold the most records, with over 70 million copies. According to the data reported by the SIAE, Nel blu painted di blu was the most performed Italian song in the world from 1958 to today.

Autograph type: Autograph on postcard