Al Bano is an Italian tenor and actor who started his career in 1965 and with a career spanning seven decades has amassed sales in excess of 25 million records, becoming one of the most recognisable Italian singers in the world due to his four and a half octave vocal range as well as his personal and professional association with singer Romina Power, who he married in 1970 and divorced in 2012.
A serial participant of the Festival di Sanremo, he and Power were first selected to represent their home country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 in The Hague with the song "We'll Live It All Again", which finished in 7th place with 69 points, just 8 points behind the entry by all-female trio Chocolate, Menta, Mastik.
They returned to represent their home country nine years later in Gothenburg with the song "Magic Oh Magic", which again finished in 7th place but with 78 points.
After more Sanremo participations, he returned to his solo career in 1996 and took to the Eurovision stage once more four years later in Stockholm as a backing singer for Swiss entrant Jane Bogaert, whose song "La vita cos'è" finished in 20th place with 14 points.
Aside from his music career, he was named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations in 2001 and has made several appearances on Italian television shows and reunited for a one-off concert with Romina Power in Moscow in 2013 before reuniting with her again two years later for a self-produced concert at the Arena di Verona, which was broadcast on Italian television.
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