The summer is ending even in Italy (maybe not weatherwise...) and people's favorite past time is here: gossip. And if it's about Sanremo even better. The first name given as certain to be participating in next year's festival is Gino Paoli. He's a youngster of 76. The winner of 2011 edition Roberto Vecchini (68) is a baby compared to him and he wouldn't figure out even among the Buranovskiye Babushki...
This said the man has a remarkable career that covers already seven decades and one of his best known songs is from 1959, Il cielo in una stanza. Dozens of versions have been recorded ever since Mina made the song a hit until these days by Carla Bruni Sarkozy, Franco Battiato, Mike Patton of Faith No More and others. Another classic is Sapore di sale.
This would be his sixth Sanremo following the participations of 1961, 1964, 1966, 1989 and 2002 where he came third with Un altro amore. His latest album is from 2009.
The names of the artists for Sanremo 2013 will be probably announced just before Christmas and we will see if Gino is one of them or not.
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