Patricia Carli [SEP] place of birth
Patricia Carli
Patricia Carli (born Rosetta Ardito on 12 March 1938) is an Italian-French singer.
Life and career.
Born in Taranto, Carli grew up in Belgium, where her parents had emigrated for work. After studying music and singing, she began performing in public and in a few years she became well known in Belgium and in France, where she performed at the prestigious Olympia music hall in Paris.
In partnership with Gigliola Cinquetti she won the 1964 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival,
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964
Italy was represented by 16-year-old Gigliola Cinquetti, with the song '"Non ho l'età", at the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 21 March in Copenhagen. Broadcaster RAI chose the winning song from the 1964 Sanremo Music Festival as their Eurovision entry: the song had been performed twice at Sanremo and Cinquetti was chosen over Patricia Carli as the performer. She would bring Italy its first Eurovision victory in by far the most one-sided contest yet seen.