Enzo Ghinazzi

Enzo Ghinazzi (born 11 September 1955), best known as Pupo (Italian for little baby) is an Italian singer, lyricist, television presenter, writer and voice actor.

Enzo Ghinazzi was born in Ponticino, in the Tuscan province of Arezzo. His father was a mailman and his mother was a housewife, but they both cultivated interests in singing and acting. In 1975 he debuted as a singer-songwriter under the stage name “Pupo” with Ti Scriverò.

Pupo’s first album release, Come Sei Bella, came in 1976. His second album, Gelato al Cioccolato, was his first major success, containing the hit singles Ciao and Gelato al Cioccolato, written with Cristiano Malgioglio; the album was Pupo’s first of 11 gold records. In 1980 Pupo competed for the first time in the Sanremo Music Festival with the gold record winning song Su di Noi: the song was included in his third album Più di Prima, which was Pupo’s best selling record and also included Firenze Santa Maria Novella, a love letter to the city of Florence.

In 1981 he wrote his first hit for another artist: Sarà Perché Ti Amo, sung by Ricchi e Poveri at the Sanremo Music Festival that year. Pupo competed again in the Sanremo Music Festival in 1983 with Cieli Azzurri and in 1984 with Un Amore Grande, written by Umberto Tozzi and Giancarlo Bigazzi. In 1986 he released the album Pupo in the USSR, a major success that sparked his fame in Eastern Europe. The following year he won the international children’s song festival Zecchino d’Oro as the author of Canzone Amica. Pupo toured extensively on international stages, and in 1991 he released his first and only live album, Canada’s Wonderland, recorded in Toronto. In 1992 he competed for the fourth time at the Sanremo Music Festival, this time under his birth name, with the spiritual La Mia Preghiera.

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