Nini Rosso - The Jewels of the Madonna (1988)

Nini Rosso, aka Raffaele Celeste Rosso (San Michele Mondovi, September 19, 1926 - Rome, October 5, 1994) was an Italian trumpeter.

Biography
After a decent career and jazz orchestra (the orchestra of the master Cynic Angelini) decides to launch solo light, signing a contract with the Titanus (record label distributed by Durium, as well as the next Sprint).

His first album, Ballad for Trumpet, had some success, in 1963, participates in the soundtrack of the film difficult to love, written by maestro Piero Umiliani love with the song Lane 43.

The blow of his life came in 1964 with Silence, lightweight version of "Silence out of order" played in the barracks. The song was recorded by chance during a concert at Palaeur of Rome before an audience of military decided to run it with a melancholy in which the acting well describes the loneliness of a conscript who gives a romantic goodnight to his girlfriend away, and the 'reception was explosive.



Nini Rosso in 1970
The album sold ten million copies, with peaks of success in Northern Europe and Japan, where he made many tours Nini Rosso.

In the same year he participated in with Cantagiro are here waiting, while the following year appeared in the trilogy of movies musicals Avenue lyrics, 008 Operation rhythm and that crazy, crazy Italians, conducted by Tullio Piacentini.

In 1966 he participated in a disc for the summer with a concert for love.

Another success was in 1967, another song from the melancholy tones, Men only, used as opening and ending of the famous television series Homicide Lt. Sheridan, five with the ever-popular TV series directed by Ubaldo Lay Leonardo Cortese, considered among the best of long series of characters created by Mario and Alberto Casacci Ciambricco.

Nini Rosso was also an actor, generally doing the trumpeter, in some Italian musicals of the sixties: Sanremo, the great challenge, Kneel, Little Rita in the Far West, Songs Guys and Dolls. He also participated with the whole program "The Wonderful Machine" by Piero Angela (more specifically, the first episode dedicated to the ear). Dies of lung cancer.