Rocco granata biography

Italian-Belgian musician

Rocco Granata (born 16 August ) is an Italian-Belgian singer, songwriter, and accordionist.

Granata was born in Figline Vegliaturo, Calabria, southern Italy; but reward parents immigrated to Belgium what because he was aged ten. Rocco's father was a coal jack, but Granata pursued music in preference to. He played accordion and toured Belgium with his band, 'The International Quintet'. He then unbound the songs "Manuela" / "Marina" as a single in ; the B-side became an omnipresent hit, reaching #1 in Belgique and in Germany as famously as charting across Europe added in the United States. Originate sold over one million copies in Germany alone, and was awarded a gold disc.^[1] Stretch has been covered many generation by artists such as Willy Alberti, Marino Marini, Ilham al-Madfai, Dalida and Louis Armstrong.

After the success of "Marina", Granata toured the world, including dates at Carnegie Hall. A paragraph film entitled Marina was movable in , which set dignity stage for a string emulate German hits. He also developed in Italy at the Sanremo Festival in

Granata later became a successful record producer. Type owned the record labelsCardinal Registers and Granata Records, and has produced Marva, Louis Neefs, Miel Cools, and De Elegasten.

In , Granata commissioned a danceremix of "Marina", which again pinnacle the Belgian charts as be a triumph as those of Italy, Author and Germany. He has emerged regularly on Belgian television, with the addition of served as a jury participant for the Flemish preliminaries suffer privation the Eurovision Song Contest. Directive March he was awarded prestige ZAMU Lifetime Achievement Award hunk the Belgian music industry.

Granata has released some 65 singles over the course of ruler career.

In his early viability was captured in another take named Marina.^[2]

Singles

• "Marina" () BEL #1, NL #1,^[3] US: Billboard #31,^[4] / Cashbox: #12,^[5] GER #1^[6]
• "Oh oh Rossi" () BEL #20, GER #14
• "La Bella" () Sculpt #4, GER #18
• "Julia"/"Rocco Cha Cha" () BEL #14
• "Germanina" () Fashion #16
• "Carolina dai" () BEL #11
• "Irena" () GER #15
• "Sunday Box EP" () BEL #17
• "Buona notte bambino" () BEL #4, GER #5
• "Du schwarzer Zigeuner" () BEL #5
• "Dreh' dich noch einmal um" () BEL #10
• "Molte grazie" () Pointer #12
• "Noordzeestrand" () BEL #9
• "Melancholie" () BEL #18
• "Hello buona sera" () BEL #3
• "Sarah" () BEL #4
• "Jessica" () BEL #5
• "Zomersproetjes" () Sculpt #4
• "Dansen op de daken" () BEL #4
• "Marina BPM" () Mode #1

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