Ornella Vanoni

Ornella Vanoni is an Italian singer. She is one of the longest-running Italian artists: she has been in the business since 1956. With the publication of about 112 works (including albums, EPs and collections), she is considered one of the greatest interpreters of Italian pop music and during her long career has sold over 40 million discs.
She started her artistic career in 1960 as a theatrical actress of Bertolt Brecht works, under the direction of Giorgio Strehler in his Piccolo Teatro of Milan. At the same time, she started singing, recording for a high-class public. The folklore and popular songs she reinvented in her recordings of this period, especially the ones that sang about the criminal underworld, gave her the nickname cantante della mala ("Underworld Singer").