
Salvatore Adamo
Salvatore Adamo (November 1, 1943) is a Belgian-Italian musician, singer and composer, who is known for his romantic ballads. Adamo was born in Comiso, Sicily, Italy, and has lived in Belgium since the age of three, which is why he has dual citizenship. By the second half of the sixties, Adamo had become the world's second best-selling musician after The Beatles. Through his career, he sold more than 80 million albums and 20 million singles worldwide, making him the best-selling Belgian artist of all time, and one of the most commercially successful musicians in the world. He first gained popularity throughout Europe and later in the Middle East, Latin America, Japan, and the United States. Adamo mainly performs in French but has also sung in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Turkish. "Tombe la neige", "La nuit", "Vous permettez, Monsieur?", "Inch'Allah" and "Petit bonheur" remain his best known songs. Since 2001 Adamo holds the Belgian noble title of Ridder, similar to the English title of "Knight". He became an officer of the French Légion d'honneur in 2005 and a Commander in the Order of the Star of Italy in 2015. He was also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun in 2016 for his influence on Japanese popular music. The father of Adamo, Antonio, emigrated to Belgium in February 1947 to work as a colliery worker in the mines of Marcinelle. Four months later his wife, Concetta, and their son, Salvatore, joined him in the town of Ghlin, before moving to Jemappes (Mons). In 1956, Salvatore was bedridden for a year with meningitis. Salvatore's parents did not want their son to become a miner, so he went to a Catholic school run by the Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes. By 1960, the family of Antonio and Concetta Adamo had seven children overall. Salvatore was a dedicated student at school and distinguished himself in music and the arts. Adamo's early influences were the poetry of Victor Hugo and Jacques Prévert, the music of Jacques Brel and French singer-songwriters like Georges Brassens and Charles Aznavour, and the Italian canzonette. He started singing and composing his own songs from an early age. His debut was in a Radio Luxembourg competition, where he participated as singer and composer of the song "Si j'osais" ("If I dared"), winning the competition's final held in Paris on 14 February 1960. Adamo's first hit was "Sans toi, ma mie", in 1963, from his debut album 63/64. He followed this with a series of hits, the most famous being "Tombe la neige" ("The snow falls") in 1963, "La nuit" ("The Night") in 1964, "Mes mains sur tes hanches" ("My hands on your hips") in 1965 and "Inch'Allah". The self-penned "Petit bonheur" ("Little Happiness") sold over one million copies by April 1970, and was awarded a gold disc. Adamo has sold over 100 million copies of recordings worldwide. He has recorded in many languages and, besides France and Belgium, had hits in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and also in Japan, where he toured repeatedly. He has had hits and toured also in Latin America and throughout the Middle East. ... Source: Article "Salvatore Adamo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Champs-Elysées
1982

Sacrée soirée
1987

Vivement dimanche
1998

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975

Midi Première
1975

Le Grand Échiquier
1972

Le monde est à vous
1987

Numéro un
1975

Dalli Dalli
1971
Die Drehscheibe
1964

C à vous
2009
Zum blauen Bock
1957
Midi trente
1972

Die Montagsmaler
1974

Viña del Mar International Song Festival
1963

Discorama
1959

Star Academy
2001

Fan School
1977
Samedi soir
1971
Die ZDF-Hitparade
1969

Victoires de la musique
1985

La Chance aux chansons
1984
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
2004
Was bin ich?
1955

Disco
1971
Die Pyramide
1979
Système 2
1975
Einer wird gewinnen
1964

Stars 90
1990

30 millions d'amis
1976
Ein Kessel Buntes
1972

Téléthon
1987

Aktuelle Schaubude
1957

Ready Steady Go!
1963

Cadet Rousselle
1971

De pé a pá
1996
Musik aus Studio B
1961

À bout portant
1968

The Unexpected Getaway
2022
Amanda
2016

Les Jeux de 20 heures
1976
Musik liegt in der Luft
1991
Musik ist Trumpf
1975
Unsere kleine Show - Musik zur blauen Stunde
1969
Night-Club
1968
Der goldene Schuß
1964
Melodien für Millionen
1985

Starparade
1968
Europarty
1967

La Boîte à secrets
2019

Serge Lama, le dernier rappel
2025

Basique, le concert
2018
Telespiele
1977
Von uns für Sie
1966
Hätten Sie heut’ Zeit für mich?
1972

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
40° à l'ombre
1987

Les plus belles comptines d'Okoo
2019

Le Grand Concert de la Francophonie célèbre Jean-Jaques Goldman
2025

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998

Les Arnaud
1967
L'amour à trois
2021

50 ans de Numéro Un - Les Carpentier
2025

Les Belges ça ose tout
2017

Alexandra – die Legende einer Sängerin
1999

The Comeuppance
1970

Chroniques de l'âge tendre
2021

Une journée avec Jacques Brel
2023

Lili David
2012
L'île au coquelicot
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La Grande Soirée du 31 de Paris
2025

Leurs voix pour l'espoir - 4ème édition
2015

La Fête De La Chanson Française
2005

Salvatore Adamo, ma vie, la vraie
2022

Salvatore Adamo: A Belgian Success Story
2021

Le concert de Noël avec Roberto Alagna et l'orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
2015

France, Song
1969

Carlos Numéro 1
1979

Allez viens je t’emmène dans les sixties
2020
Schlager nonstop Die 60er – Merci, Cherie
2018
Paris nach Noten
1968