Piero Vivarelli
Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Piero Vivarelli (26 February 1927 – 7 September 2010) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and lyricist.
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Born | (1927-02-26)26 February 1927 Siena, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | 7 September 2010(2010-09-07) (aged 83) Rome, Italy |
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Vivarelli was born in Siena. After his father's death in 1942 at the hands of Yugoslav Partisans, Vivarelli joined the Republic of Salò as a young volunteer of the Decima Flottiglia MAS and for a short time was a member of the Italian Social Movement.[1] Later, from 1949 through the 1990s, he was a member of the Italian Communist Party, and was also the only Italian to receive the Communist Party of Cuba's membership card from Fidel Castro.[1] Mainly active in genre films, he is regarded as a key figure in the musicarello genre.[2][3] He was also active as a lyricist of pop songs such as "24.000 baci", and several hits popularized by Adriano Celentano.[1][3]