Katyna Ranieri

Caterina Ranieri (31 August 1925 – 3 September 2018), known professionally as Katyna Ranieri, was an Italian actress and singer.[1]

Katyna Ranieri
Ranieri in 1962.
Born
Caterina Ranieri

(1925-08-31)31 August 1925
Follonica, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy
Died3 September 2018(2018-09-03) (aged 93)
Rome, Lazio, Italy
OccupationSinger
Years active1945–2018

Biography

Ranieri was born in Follonica in 1925.[2] She had her first hit in 1954 at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Una canzone da due soldi".[3]

Ranieri enjoyed great success singing "Ti guarderò nel cuore", the Italian vocal version of the theme song of the 1962 film Mondo Cane and the subsequent English vocal version known as "More". She performed this song at the 36th Academy Awards in 1964, becoming the first, and thus far only, Italian singer to perform at the Academy Awards.[2][4]

As an actress, she worked with Nino Rota and Federico Fellini. She sang the title song "Strange World" for the 1968 film Bandits in Milan.[5] Her song "Oh My Love" (originally featured on the soundtrack of the film Goodbye Uncle Tom) was featured on the soundtrack of the 2011 film Drive.[6]

Personal life

In 1956, Ranieri married Italian film composer Riz Ortolani (composer of "More").[2] She died in Rome on 3 September 2018.[7]

Selected filmography
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gollark: Firing your pandemic response team a while before a pandemic is at least not as stupid as doing it during one.
gollark: I blame some sort of weird interaction between insurance companies, regulation/the government, consumers of healthcare services, and the companies involved in healthcare.
gollark: The US healthcare system is just really quite broken and there is probably not some individual there who's just going "MWAHAHAHA, my plan to increase the price of healthcare has succeeded, and I could easily make everything reasonable but I won't because I'm evil!", or one person who could decide to just make some stuff free right now without introducing some huge issues. It's a systemic issue.
gollark: Yes, they do have considerations other than minimizing short-term COVID-19 deaths, but that is sensible because other things do matter.

References
  1. "Si è spenta a 93 annila cantante Katyna Ranierivedova di Riz Ortolani". Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. "Follonica piange Katyna Ranieri, star dello spettacolo e vedova di Riz Ortolani - Cronaca - il Tirreno". il Tirreno (in Italian). 3 September 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  3. s.r.l., Rockol.com. "√ Addio a Katyna Ranieri". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  4. Reportage – Katyna Ranieri. katynaranieri.it
  5. Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland.
  6. Drive (2011). Internet Movie Database
  7. "Addio Katyna Ranieri, vedova di Ortolani - Marche". ANSA.it (in Italian). 3 September 2018. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
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