Berto Pisano | |
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Born |
Cagliari, Italy |
13 October 1928
Died | 29 January 2002 Rome, Italy |
(aged 73)
Berto Pisano ( 13 October 1928 – 29 January 2002) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.
Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Pisano started his career as a contrabassist in the jazz groups Quartetto Astor and Asternovas. He is best known as composer of pop songs, for, among others, Mina, and a composer of musical scores for films and TV-series; his major hit was "A blue shadow", the theme song of the RAI TV-series Ho incontrato un'ombra, which ranked first at the Italian hit parade in 1974.