Maria Carta
Maria Carta (born June 24, 1934 in Siligo ( Sassari Province ), † September 22, 1994 in Rome ) was an Italian actress and singer .
Life
Maria Carta was primarily a singer and songwriter of music from Sardinia . She sang her songs mainly in the Sardinian language .
As an actress, she appeared in nine films. She made her acting debut in 1974 in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather - Part II . In 1977 she played Martha in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth . Apart from these two big productions, she appeared in small television roles. In the Swiss / French film Derborence from 1985, she not only appeared as an actress, but also composed the film music.
Over the course of her 25-year career, she revised traditional Sardinian music ( lullabies , gosos, Gregorian chant, etc.), which she often gave a modern version. She made Sardinian folk music particularly well known in Italy (Canzonissima, 1974), France and the United States because of her participation in television programs.
Carta lived for a long time in Rome , where she was councilor for the Italian Communist Party from 1976 to 1981 . In 1985 she was awarded the Targa Tenco Prize for Folk Music. In the last years of her life she worked at the University of Bologna , where she led seminars and supervised students in writing their theses. In 1991 she nominated the President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga as "Commendatore della Repubblica" (Knight of the Italian Republic). Carta gave her last concert in June 1994 in Toulouse . She died of cancer in Rome in September of that year at the age of 60.
Web links
- Maria Carta in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Carta, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actress and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Siligo ( Sassari Province ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1994 |
| Place of death | Rome |