Gianni Nazzaro 27 October 1948 27 July 2021 was an Italian singer and actor Born in Naples Nazzaro started his career with the stage name of Buddy recording 59 singles mainly cover songs between 1965 and 1968 In 1968 Nazzaro started to perform with his real name and he took part at the music contest Un disco per lestate with the song Solo noi In 1970 he won the Napoli Music Festival with the song Me chiamme ammore After a series of successful hits in the eighties Nazzaro gradually slowed his musical production focusing with some success in stage musicals Gianni Nazzaro was the son of vaudeville actor and gossip columnist Erminio Nazzaro He was the second of four siblings two sisters and a brother Nazzaro married Nada Ovcina during the first years of the 1970s They had two children Junior born in 1973 and Giorgia born in 1976 Nazzaro and Ovcina eventually divorced but after years of estrangement they reestablished their relationship in 2016 Ovcina remarried Nazzaro just hours before his death in a Roman hospital from lung cancer on 27 July 2021 Source Article Gianni Nazzaro from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30