1. Luigi "Gigi" D'Alessio was born on 24 February 1967 and is an Italian popular singer and singer-songwriter from Naples.
12 Facts About Gigi D'Alessio
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Camorra repentant Luigi Giuliano stated that D'Alessio success was initially funded by his clan.
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Gigi D'Alessio was well known in Naples in the early 1990s and throughout Italy due to participation in the Sanremo Festival in 2000 and 2001.
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Gigi D'Alessio has made overseas appearances, the most recent was in Malta on 7 July 2012.
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Gigi D'Alessio frequently writes and produces songs for Tatangelo, and some of the hits he had a hand in writing include "Quando due si lasciano" and "Ragazza di periferia".
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Gigi D'Alessio was the writer and composer of Tatangelo's song performed at Sanremo Music Festival 2008, "Il mio amico".
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Gigi D'Alessio achieved international success with his single "Un cuore malato", a duet with Belgian-Sicilian singer Lara Fabian.
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Gigi D'Alessio released in 2007 a version of this song half in Italian, half in Portuguese, named "Um coracao apaixonado", recorded with Brazilian pop singer Wanessa Camargo.
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The song was included in both Gigi D'Alessio's Made in Italy Brazilian edition and in Camargo's 2007 Total album.
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At one point Gigi D'Alessio sang at 15 parties a day from lunch until dawn.
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On 4 March 2010 he debuted as a run of a television program on Rai Uno presenting his first one-man show called "Gigi D'Alessio this is me".
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Gigi D'Alessio was married from 1986 until 2006, to Carmela Barbato, with whom he had three children: Claudio, Ilaria and Luca.