Ferruccio Merk Ricordi aka Teddy Reno was born in Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy on July 11, 1926. Reno made his debut on Radio Trieste during the Anglo-American administration of the city, launching the song "Eterno ritornello (Te vojo ben)". He later he was a singer for the orchestra of Teddy Foster, with whom he toured across Europe and North Africa. In 1948, he founded one of Italy's first record companies, CGD (i.e. Compagnia Generale del Disco), which he later sold to Ladislao Sugar, a publisher of Hungarian origin and future owner of the Sugar Group. He enjoyed a great degree of success as a singer in the 1950s. In the 1960s. He then focused his career on discovering and producing new talents, mainly through the Festival degli sconosciuti (Festival of the Unknowns) which he created in 1961. Some of Reno's discoveries at the Festival include The Rokes, Dino and Rita Pavone, whom he married in 1968. He’s the father of father of singer-songwriter George Merk (Giorgio Merk Ricordi).
Reno was also active as a film and stage actor and a television and radio presenter
Reno sings “Rita sei tutti noi” with Rita Pavone in her 1967 Spaghetti western musical film “Little Rita of the West”.
RENO, Teddy (Ferruccio Merk Ricordi)
[7/11/1926, Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy - ] – singer, songwriter, actor, married to
Vania Protti (19??-19??) father of Franco Ricordi, married to Rita Pavone
(1968- ) father of Alessandro Merk
Ricordi [1969- ], Giorgio Merk
Ricordi.
Litte Rita of the West – 1967 [sings: “Rita sei tutti
noi” (co)]
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