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Gianni Morandi

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Middle of the Road (MOR)

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Italian pop crooner Gianni Morandi first came to fame as a teenage idol in the 1960s and has since spent decades as an all-round entertainer with record sales of over 50 million. Morandi was born in the small village of Monghidoro in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine mountains south of Bologna where, as a child, he worked in his father's shoe repair shop and sold candy at a cinema, which is where he made his first public singing performance at a New Year's Eve celebration when he was just 12-years-old. He also sang in local hotels, barber shops, village festivals and events run by the ...