Giovanni ‘Gianni’ Nazzaro was born in Naples, Italy on October 27, 1948. He was the second of four children born to vaudeville actor and gossip columnist Erminio Nazzaro. He started his career with the stage name of ‘Buddy’, recording 59 singles, mainly cover songs, between 1965 and 1968. In 1968, Nazzaro started to perform with his real name, and he took part at the music contest Un disco per l'estate with the song "Solo noi". In 1970, he won the Festival di Napoli with the song "Me chiamme ammore". After a series of successful hits, in the 1980s Nazzaro gradually slowed his musical production, focusing with some success in stage musicals.
In the early 1970s, Nazzaro married Nada Ovcina. They had two children, Junior (born 1973) and Giorgia (born 1976). Nazzaro and Ovcina eventually divorced, but after years of estrangement, they reestablished their relationship in 2016. Ovcina remarried Nazzaro just hours before his death in a Roman hospital from lung cancer, on 27 July 2021.
NAZZARO, Gianni (aka Buddy) (Giovanni Nazzaro)
[10/27/1948, Naples, Campania, Italy – 7/27/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy] –
theater, actor, singer, son of actor Ermino Nazzaro, brother of actress Anna
Maria Nazzaro, actor Maurizio Nazzaro [19??-2020], married to Nada Ovcina
(1971-1977) father of Gianni Nazzaro Jr. [1973- ], Giorgia Nazzaro [1976- ], father of Mattia Nazzaro, David Nazzaro
with model Catherine Franck, re-married Gianni Nazzaro [2021-2021], member of
the group “ Squadra Italia”.
A Fistful of Songs – 1966 [sings: “?”]
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