Nini Rosso
Italian recording artist, trumpet player, singer, songwriter
About Nini Rosso
Lived 1926 – 1994 (aged 68). Nini Rosso was an Italian trumpeter, composer, jazz musician, singer, recording artist and actor.
Raffaele Celeste "Nini" Rosso (19 September 1926 – 5 October 1994)
Biography Rosso was born in Turin, Italy. and Detto Dalmastro, partisan commander of the anti-fascist brigade Giustizia e Libertà attached to the Partito d'Azione of northern Italy.
After his employment in a nightclub was terminated by the police, he returned home, but soon after departed again to relaunch his career. He soon became one of the best-known jazz trumpeters in Italy, reaching the crest of his popularity in the 1960s. He also acted in the 1960s.
Rosso died of lung cancer in Rome in 1994, at the age of 68. He was buried at the local Cimitero Flaminio.
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Italian recording artist, trumpet player, singer, songwriter (1926–1994)
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Nini Rosso was born on 19 September 1926 in Turin.
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Nini Rosso died on 5 October 1994 in Rome.
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Nini Rosso was a trumpeter, composer, jazz musician, singer, recording artist and actor.
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