{{short description|Italian singer (born 1950)}} {{Infobox person | name = Paolo Mengoli | image = A01 paolo mengoli.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|14 August 1950}} | birth_place = Bologna, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Singer | spouse = | website = {{website|http://paolomengoli.it}} }}
'''Paolo Mengoli''' (born 14 August 1950) is an Italian singer, mainly successful between late 1960s and 1970s.
==Life and career == Born in Bologna, after performing in several local music halls in 1968 Mengoli won the Castrocaro Music Festival.<ref name="curcio">Enzo Giannelli. "Paolo Mengoli". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990.</ref><ref name="music"/> In 1969 he got his major hit with the song " Perché l'hai fatto" with whom he competed at Un disco per l'estate.<ref name="curcio"/><ref name="music"/> In 1972 he won the "Group B" of the Cantagiro with the song "Mi piaci da morire".<ref name="curcio"/>
Mengoli slowed his activities in the mid-1970s, partially relaunching his career between late 1980s and early 1990s thanks to his apparitions on several TV-programs.<ref name="curcio"/><ref name="music"/> He entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival three times between 1970 and 1992.<ref name="curcio"/><ref name="music">{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|year=2009|publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=978-8863462296}}</ref>
==Discography== ;Album * 1970 - ''Paolo Mengoli'' (Jet, JT-40050) * 1973 - ''I successi di Paolo Mengoli'' (Ariston Milano, OS 191) * 1973 - ''Bela Bulagna'' (Ariston, AR-LP12105) * 1975 - ''Che sarà - Paolo Mengoli in Japan'' (Ariston & Seven Seas, LAX 121) * 1981 - ''Paolo Mengoli - omaggio ai favolosi anni 60'' (YEP Record, SLL 10) * 1986 - ''Piano piano in silenzio'' (103 Edizioni Musicali, CNT 27041) * 1988 - ''Occhi'' (Capriccio CGD, KAP 98706) * 1989 - ''Momenti d'amore'' (Fonit Cetra Pellicano, PL 771) * 1991 - ''Perché l'hai fatto'' (Pull, PM 12039) * 1992 - ''Io ti darò un attimo... o la mia vita intera'' (Fonit Cetra Pull, LPX 308) * 1996 - ''Paolo Mengoli - omaggio ai favolosi anni 60'' (Bebas Record - Duck Record, SMCD 312) * 1996 - ''Ci sto da Dio... con voi!!!'' (Dub Record - 103 Ed. musicali, DUBCD 1009-D) * 1997 - ''Io ti darò'' (Pull, PCD 2072) * 1998 - ''Il sogno continua Inno al Bologna FC 1909'' (TI.PA edizioni musicali e 103, 2010) * 2000 - ''Quanto t'ho amato... e altre storie'' (D.V. More Record, MRCD - 4197) * 2008 - ''La mia vita in musica'' (TI.PA edizioni musicali, 001)
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==External links== {{Commons}} * {{official|http://www.paolomengoli.it/}} *{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000501217|label=Paolo Mengoli}} *{{discogs artist|Paolo Mengoli}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mengoli, Paolo}} Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:Singers from Bologna Category:Italian pop singers Category:20th-century Italian male singers Category:21st-century Italian male singers