{{Short description|Italian jazz singer and actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Pippo Starnazza | birth_name = Luigi Redaelli | birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|04|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = Milan, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|07|16|1909|04|16|df=yes}} | death_place = Milan | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician, singer | instrument = Drums, vocals | years_active = 1920s–1970s | image = Pippo Starnazza Milano odia.png | caption = Pippo Starnazza in ''Almost Human'' (1974) }} '''Pippo Starnazza''' (16 April 1909 – 16 July 1975) was an Italian jazz singer and actor.

Born '''Luigi Redaelli''' in Milan, he started his career in the 1920s, playing the drums in the De Carli Orchestra at the Orfeo music hall in Milan.<ref name=bio>{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Enciclopedia del cinema italiano: Gli Attori|publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003}}</ref> After having been part of several other orchestras and jazz bands, in the early 1930s Redaelli started his solo career as a singer, specializing in creating humorous covers of popular American songs in Milanese dialect.<ref name="bio"/> In 1939, he adopted his stage name and formed the Quintetto del Delirio (Delirium Quintet), with whom he sang cover songs where the English lyrics were replaced by an onomatopoeic, gibberish language.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="der">{{cite news|title=E morto a 66 anni Pippo Starnazza|issue=155|newspaper=La Stampa|date=17 July 1975|page=6}}</ref> Beginning the 1960s, he appeared in many films in supporting and character roles.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="der"/> He died of cardiac arrest at the age of sixty-six.<ref name="der"/>

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