1. Joseph Dolce is an American-Australian singer, songwriter, poet and essayist.
15 Facts About Joe Dolce
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Joe Dolce was born in 1947 in Painesville, Ohio, the eldest of three children to Italian-American parents.
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Joe Dolce graduated from Thomas W Harvey High School in 1965.
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Joe Dolce's co-star in Les Precieuses Ridicules was a sophomore on a creative writing scholarship at Lake Erie College, Carol Dunlop, who introduced him to folk music, poetry and the writings of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
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Joe Dolce attended Ohio University, majoring in architecture, from 1965 to 1967 before deciding to become a professional musician.
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Joe Dolce's one-man show, Joe Dolce Music Theatre, was performed in cabarets and pubs with various line-ups, including his longtime partner, Lin Van Hek.
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Joe Dolce wrote the song about Italians living in Australia and first performed it at Marijuana House, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy in 1979.
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In December 1981, Joe Dolce released the album Christmas in Australia, which peaked at number 92 on the Australian chart.
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Van Hek and Joe Dolce co-wrote "Intimacy", for the soundtrack of the 1984 film The Terminator, now part of the US Library of Congress collection.
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Joe Dolce was a featured lead actor in the Australian film Blowing Hot and Cold.
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Joe Dolce has continued to perform solo and with Van Hek as part of their music-literary cabaret Difficult Women.
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Joe Dolce was the winner of the 2017 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Health Poetry Prize, for a choral libretto, longlisted in the same year for the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize and included in the Irises anthology.
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Joe Dolce longlisted for the 2018 University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's Poetry Prize and was included in the Silence anthology.
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Joe Dolce was Highly Commended for the 2020 ACU Poetry Prize and included in the Generosity anthology.
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Joe Dolce was selected as the August 2020 City of Melbourne Poet Laureate.