Jimmy Fontana on DeBaser: reviews, quotes and key works

Jimmy Fontana

Musician

Forfans of 1960s italian pop, crooner-era enthusiasts, and curious newcomers.
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The Profile

Italian singer and songwriter Jimmy Fontana (born Enrico Sbriccioli, 1934–2013) rose to fame in the early 1960s with melodic pop hits. He is best known for “Il mondo” and as the composer of “Che sarà,” with a career spanning stage, studio, and television.

Born Enrico Sbriccioli (1934–2013), Italian singer-songwriter from the Marche; active from the late 1950s; author of “Il mondo” and composer of “Che sarà”.

A single review retraces Jimmy Fontana’s rise in the early ’60s, his hallmark melodic style, and how the beat/psychedelic wave sidelined him. It nods to late-career revivals and frames Il Meglio as a compact tour of his best-known songs, from Il mondo to Non te ne andare.

Notable Quotes

❝ Not that the Marche-native Jimmy was a bad singer, far from it, and much less a bad songwriter, as some of his pieces have neither lost impact nor modernity, still resulting evocative today - if not small melodic poetic masterpieces - like the already mentioned "Il mondo", even thanks to their jazzy undertones.