Vittorio Casagrande

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Vittorio Casagrande (born July 8, 1934 in Vittorio Veneto , † July 9, 2008 in Munich ) was a German- Italian pop singer and actor .

Life

Casagrande came to Munich with his family at the age of 10 during World War II . The director of the children's choir of Bayerischer Rundfunk discovered his singing talent and encouraged him.

Casagrande did an apprenticeship as a church and script painter in Munich and spent his wandering years in French-speaking Switzerland in Geneva . After returning to Munich, Casagrande worked as an Italian civil servant in the Italian tourist office ENIT .

In the 1950s he became a local celebrity with his band Die Rivieras in Munich. In 1961 he was discovered in a Schwabing beat club by Paul Kuhn , who helped him to get a record deal with Electrola in Cologne . In the 1960s he became known with the hits Volare and Tintarella di Luna , which sold 500,000 times. He gave up his civil servant job in 1965 and switched to the professional camp. In 1973 the entertainer was chosen as the carnival prince by the Munich carnival society Narrhalla .

This was followed by appearances as a singer in numerous television shows, such as in Musik ist Trumpf , As beautiful as today, so it should stay and Zum Blauen Bock . Another successful title was a guitar and a thousand illusions . He was also one of the first West German pop singers to be invited to the GDR . In 1978 he had a 14-day engagement in the town hall of Karl-Marx-Stadt, today's Chemnitz . He was also seen on GDR television with an appearance on the music show Ein Kessel Buntes .

In addition to his work as a singer, he also worked as an actor. Vittorio Casagrande played a leading role in the 1968 ZDF series Zimmer 13 . In addition to more frequent smaller roles in series such as Salto Mortale , Ein Fall für Zwei and Der Alte , he was seen in the 1996 crime series SK Babies as Uncle Rosario . In Helmut Dietl's film Rossini - or the murderous question of who slept with whom, he played a small role as a regular at the restaurant, in the cult series Somehow and Anyway he can be seen as a hotelier on Lake Garda . His last appearance was in 1999 at the Falkenau Forestry House .

In addition to his numerous engagements as a singer and actor, Vittorio Casagrande was a passionate painter .

He died on July 9, 2008 at the age of 74 in his home in Munich. He was buried in the Westfriedhof in the presence of his wife and his sons Sandro and Claudius .

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  1. ^ Singer Vittorio Casagrande died. derStandard.at , July 11, 2008 .;
  2. ↑ Pop singer Vittorio Casagrande is dead. Focus , July 11, 2008 .;
personal data
SURNAME Casagrande, Vittorio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian pop singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Vittorio Veneto
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 2008
Place of death Munich