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Giovanna Marini, anagraphically Giovanna Salviucci in Marini (Rome, January 19, 1937), is an Italian singer-songwriter and researcher of ethnomusicology. .

Biagio Marini (1594-1663) was an Italian virtuoso violinist and composer. Marini was born on 5th February 1594 in Brescia. His works were printed and influential throughout the European musical world. He travelled throughout his life, and occupied posts in Brussels, over thirty years in Neuburg an der Donau and Düsseldorf, and Venice, Padua, Parma, Ferrara, Milan, Bergamo, and Brescia in Italy. There is evidence that he married three times and had five children. He died in 1663 in Venice. Although he wrote both instrumental and vocal music, he is better known for his innovative instrumental compositions. He contributed to the...

Born in 1924 (four years after Renato Carosone, and four years before Domenico Modugno) in a family of musicians, Marino Marini graduated from the Conservatorio di Bologna and made a difficult living by teaching music, until called by the army. In 1947, while being appointed artistic director of the Metropolitan music-hall in Napoli, he tried various forms of musical ensembles. However, his posting in that city was for him a revelation: he felt he was re-born to the Neapolitan music, and he dug in that colourful repertoire for his first interpretations. 1949 was the date of his first visit to...

Alberto Batet Vitali (*Mendoza, Argentina, 23 de August 1920 – † 15 October 2000) was an Argentinian singer and actor more know as Leo Marini, also nicknamed the "La voz que acaricia" (the caressing voice / the soothing voice). Born in Argentina and though he had hits with other orchestras, it was with Cuban La Sonora Matancera he reached the peak of his fame singing Afro-Cuban boleros. Although he got his first break into the music scene through LV 10 radio Cuyo it was until 1941 when in Chile he gathered a conjunto (group of musician / band) and started...