1. Massimo Ranieri was discovered by a music producer about four years later and was flown to New York to record an EP under the name of Gianni Rock.
12 Facts About Massimo Ranieri
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Massimo Ranieri represented Italy in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Ireland, where he placed 5th with the song "L'amore e un attimo".
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Massimo Ranieri returned to the Eurovision Song Contest that year, in Luxembourg, to represent Italy with "Chi sara con te", where he placed 13th.
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Massimo Ranieri placed 23rd with the song "Tra le mani un cuore".
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Massimo Ranieri co-starred with Anna Magnani in the television film La Sciantosa later that year.
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When his singing career started to decline in 1975, Massimo Ranieri concentrated on his acting career, both in the cinema and, most importantly, as a stage actor: he collaborated with the directors Mauro Bolognini, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Giorgio de Lullo, Giorgio Strehler and Maurizio Scaparro, performing a wide range of material from modern plays and musicals, to Moliere and Shakespeare.
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In 1996, Massimo Ranieri provided the speaking and the singing voice of Quasimodo in the Italian-Language version of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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In 2010, Massimo Ranieri was featured in Passione, a documentary about the history of music from Naples, Italy, directed by Italian-American actor, John Turturro.
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On 16 October 2002, Massimo Ranieri was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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Massimo Ranieri did not have anything to do with the raising of his daughter, saying that he was too young and inexperienced for fatherhood, and that it would be damaging to his career.
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Massimo Ranieri was never linked with any other woman thereafter.
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Massimo Ranieri did not have any contact with his daughter until they met when she was about 20 years old.