{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} {{Short description|Italian singer and actor}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Adriano Pappalardo | image = Adriano Pappalardo.jpg | caption = Pappalardo in 1972 | genre = {{Hlist|Rhythm and blues|blue-eyed soul}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|3|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = Copertino, Lecce, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{hlist|Singer|actor}} | website = | years_active = 1971–present | label = {{flatlist| * {{Ill|Numero Uno (record label){{!}}Numero Uno|it|Numero Uno (casa discografica)}} * RCA * Polydor * Ariston }} }}
'''Adriano Pappalardo''' (born 25 March 1945) is an Italian singer, actor and television personality.
== Biography == Born in Copertino, Lecce, Pappalardo started his career in 1971 with the song "Una donna".<ref name=rrrt /> He obtained his first success in 1972 with the R'n'B single "E' ancora giorno", written as some of his other songs of the time by the couple Lucio Battisti-Mogol,<ref name=rrrt /> which ranked second in the Italian hit parade.<ref name=hitparade>{{cite book|last=Dario Salvatori|title=Storia dell'Hit Parade|year=1989|publisher=Gramese, 1989|isbn=88-7605-439-1}}</ref> After some other minor hits, such as the songs "Segui lui" and "Come bambini", Pappalardo had his major success in 1979 with the ballad "Ricominciamo".<ref name=rrrt /> In mid-eighties, following the commercial failure of the two albums ''Immersione'' and ''Oh! Era ora'' he focused on his acting career, usually playing tough men and villains.<ref name=rrrt>{{cite book|last=Enrico Deregibus|title=Dizionario completo della Canzone Italiana|date=8 October 2010|publisher=Giunti Editore, 2010|isbn=978-88-09-75625-0}}</ref><ref name=music>{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|year=2009|publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=978-88-6346-229-6}}</ref><ref name=act>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri.|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=88-8440-269-7}}</ref>
In 2003 Pappalardo had a significant personal success as a contestant of the reality show ''L'Isola dei Famosi'' (the Italian version of ''Celebrity Survivor'').<ref name=rrrt /><ref name=music /> In 2004 he took part at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Nessun consiglio".<ref name="rrrt" /><ref name=music />
== Discography ==
=== Studio albums === * 1972: ''Adriano Pappalardo'' (Numero Uno, ZSLN 55151) * 1973: ''California no'' (Numero Uno, DZSLN 55662) * 1975: ''Mi basta così'' (RCA, TPL 1 1159) * 1979: ''Non mi lasciare mai''(RCA, PL 31505) * 1982: ''Immersione'' (Numero Uno, ZPLN 34165) * 1983: ''Oh! Era ora'' (Numero Uno, 81990) * 1988: ''Sandy'' (CGD, 20836)
== Filmography == * ''A tu per tu'' (1984) * ''Rimini Rimini'' (1987) * ''Rimini Rimini – Un anno dopo'' (1988) * ''La piovra'', {{Interlanguage link multi|La piovra (season 4)|it|3=La piovra 4|lt=season 4}} (1989) * ''Classe di ferro'' (TV Series, 1989–1991) * ''Italian Restaurant'' (TV Series, 1994) * ''Racket'' (TV Series, 1997) * ''Kaputt Mundi'' (1998) * ''This Is Not Paradise'' (2000) * ''Canone inverso – Making Love'' (2000) * ''Saint Rita'' (TV Movie, 2004) * ''Il falco e la colomba'' (TV Series, 2009)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == {{cc}} *{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0000317298|label=Adriano Pappalardo}} * {{discogs artist|Adriano Pappalardo}} *{{IMDb name|0660567}}
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