{{Short description|Italian composer and lyricist (born 1975)}} {{Infobox person | image = Nicola Di Bari with Franca Evangelisti.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Evangelisti with [[Nicola Di Bari]] in ''[[Radiocorriere]]'' magazine (1972) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|6 April 1935}} | birth_place = [[Rome]], Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Lyricist<br>Composer}} '''Franca Evangelisti''' (born 6 April 1935) is an Italian lyricist and singer.
== Life and career ==
Born in [[Rome]], Evangelisti studied singing with composer {{Interlanguage link|Lino Benedetto|it}}.<ref name="curcio">{{cite book |last1=Giannelli|first1=Enzo|editor1-last=Castaldo |editor1-first=Gino |title=Dizionario della canzone italiana |date=1990 |publisher=Curcio |pages=611 |chapter=Evangelisti, Franca}}</ref> In the second half of the 1950s, she started her professional career as a singer with the stage name '''Evy Angeli'''.<ref name="curcio" /><ref name=music>{{cite book|first=Eddy|last=Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|year=2009 |publisher=Panini|isbn=978-8863462296|page=696|chapter=Franca Evangelisti}}</ref> She was a vocalist in various orchestras, touring extensively, and also performing several times on American television.<ref name="curcio" />
In the late 1960s, Evangelisti was put under contract by [[RCA Italiana]] as a lyricist, notably becoming a close collaborator of [[Renato Zero]] for about twenty years, signing some of his most known songs such as "[[Il carrozzone]]", "[[Amico (song)|Amico]]", "Madame", "Sesso o esse".<ref name="music" /><ref name="cott">{{cite book |last1=Cotto |first1=Massimo |title=Il grande libro del rock (e non solo): musica per tutti i giorni dell'anno |date=2011 |publisher=Rizzoli |isbn=978-88-17-04850-7 |url=https://www.google.it/books/edition/Il_grande_libro_del_rock_e_non_solo/HOtyx-owl_8C?hl=it&gbpv=1&dq=%22Franca+Evangelisti%22+1935&pg=RA3-PA6-IA1&printsec=frontcover |language=it}}</ref> In this role, Evangelisti took part in four editions of the [[Sanremo Music Festival]], in particular writing the lyrics of [[Patty Pravo]]'s [[Sanremo Music Festival 1987|1987 entry]] "[[To_the_Morning#Patty_Pravo_version|Pigramente signora]]".<ref name="curcio" /><ref name="music" /> Artists with whom she collaborated also include [[Domenico Modugno]], [[Mina (Italian singer)|Mina]], [[Sylvie Vartan]], [[Mia Martini]], [[Nicola Di Bari]], [[Riccardo Fogli]], [[Michele Zarrillo]], [[Dario Baldan Bembo]] and [[Adriano Pappalardo]].<ref name="music" /><ref name="cott" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dragone |first1=Sergio |title=Tu chiamale, se vuoi, poesie: Antologia dei versi più belli della canzone italiana |date= 2015 |publisher=Lampi di stampa |isbn=978-88-488-1593-2 |page=349 |chapter=Franca Evangelisti}}</ref>
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