Giovanni Bella, best known as Gianni Bella (born 14 March 1946), is an Italian composer and singer-songwriter.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Italian. (May 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Italian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 3,067 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Italian Wikipedia article at [[:it:Gianni Bella]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|it|Gianni Bella}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Quick Facts Background information, Birth name ...

Gianni Bella
Gianni Bella performing in 1974
Background information
Birth name	Giovanni Bella
Born	(1946-03-14) 14 March 1946 (age 78) Catania, Kingdom of Italy
Genres	Pop pop rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter composer producer
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Polydor Records, CBS

Close

Born in Catania, Bella started his career as composer for his sister, singer Marcella Bella authoring several hits with lyricist Giancarlo Bigazzi.^[1][2] In the seventies he debuted as a singer himself, scoring his first major success in 1974 with the song "Più ci penso", which ranked second in the Italian hit parade.^[3] In 1976 he topped the hit parade^[3] and won the Festivalbar contest with the song "Non si può morire dentro", originally planned to be sung by his sister.^[4] In 1981 he entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Questo amore non si tocca"; he returned in Sanremo five more times between 1986 and 2007, three times in couple with his sister Marcella.^[2] In 1983 Bella stopped the collaboration with Bigazzi and started a new phase alongside Mogol; between late 1990s and 2000s the couple signed some extraordinary sales successes for Adriano Celentano.^[2] In January 2010 he suffered a stroke and subsequently he lost his speech and the use of a leg.^[5]