About Pupo
Enzo Ghinazzi .mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-smallItalian pronunciation: ; born 11 September 1955), best known as Pupo ; Italian for 'Little Baby'), is an Italian singer, lyricist, television presenter, writer and voice actor.
Enzo Ghinazzi was born in Ponticino, a frazione of Laterina Pergine Valdarno in the Tuscan province of Arezzo. His father was a mailman and his mother was a housewife, but they both cultivated interests in singing and acting. In 1975 he debuted as a singer-songwriter under the stage name Pupo with "Ti scriverò" .
Pupo's first album release, Come sei bella , came in 1976. His second album, Gelato al cioccolato, was his first major success , containing the hit singles "Ciao" and "Gelato al cioccolato", written with Cristiano Malgioglio; the album was the artist's first of 11 gold records. In 1980 Pupo competed for the first time in the Sanremo Music Festival with the gold record winning song "Su di noi" : the song was included in his third album Più di prima , which was Pupo's best selling record and also included "Firenze Santa Maria Novella", a love letter to the city of Florence.
In 1981 he wrote his first hit for another artist : "Sarà perché ti amo", sung by Ricchi e Poveri at the Sanremo Festival that year. Pupo competed again in the Festival in 1983 with "Cieli azzurri" and in 1984 with "Un amore grande" , written by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi. In 1986 he released the album Pupo in the USSR, a major success that sparked his fame in Eastern Europe. The following year he won the international children's song festival Zecchino d'Oro as the author of "Canzone amica" . Pupo toured extensively on international stages , and in 1991 he released his first and to date only live album, Canada's Wonderland, recorded in Toronto. In 1992 he competed for the fourth time at the Sanremo Music Festival, this time under his birth name, with the spiritual "La mia preghiera" .
After spending some years out of the national spotlight and then devoting himself to his television career, Pupo rose back to musical stardom with his consecutive appearances at the Sanremo Music Festival in 2009 and 2010. In 2007, the Dutch singer André Hazes covered his song "Forse" with the title "Blijf bij mi" . In 2009 he competed with "L'opportunità" , singing alongside Paolo Belli and Youssou N'Dour, reaching the finals. The year after, he came second in the Festival singing "Italia amore mio " with tenor Luca Canonici and Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, member of the former Italian royal family; in the "guest night" of the Festival, World Cup winning football coach Marcello Lippi was invited on stage.
In 2022, after 2 years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Pupo resumes his live international tour, entitled "40 ANNI SU DI NOI". Australian shows in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne; those in the European Theaters of Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg and the summer ones in the Italian Squares are always sold out, triggering a participation and enthusiasm on the part of the public, which go beyond all expectations, both from Pupo and the organizers . And this is why Pupo and his collaborators decide to relaunch the LIVE TOUR around the World also for 2023.
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