Romina Power

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Romina Power

Born Romina Francesca Power
October 2, 1951 (1951-10-02)
Los Angeles, USA
Occupation actress, singer, writer, painter
Years active 1965—present
Spouse(s) Albano Carrisi (1970-1999)
Official website

Romina Francesca Power (born October 2, 1951) is an American-born Italian singer and actress.

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[edit] Biography

Born in Los Angeles, California, Romina Power is the eldest daughter of American actor Tyrone Power and his second wife, Mexican-American actress Linda Christian.

After her parents divorced in 1956 her mother Linda Christian took her and her sister Taryn to live all around the world but mainly in Mexico and Italy where she and her sister spent much of their childhood, although Romina attended college in England.[1]

Her interest in music was evoked in her childhood by American musicals from the 1950s, Mexican Mariachi bands and Italian music from the 1960s. In her early teens Power discovered The Beatles and Bob Dylan, which inspired her to compose music. After receiving a guitar as a birthday gift, she learned chords and wrote her first songs.[1]

She appeared in several mainly Italian language films from the age of 14, including the notorious 1968 adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's novel Justine directed by Jesus Franco.

She met her (now ex) husband, singer and actor Albano Carrisi whilst acting in films in the 1960s. They formed a singing duo, Al Bano and Romina Power, and became well known in Italy, Spain and Latin America, Germany, and the USSR, releasing multiple albums in different languages and achieving 7th place in both the 1976 and 1985 Eurovision Song Contest for Italy. The couple divorced in 1999. Their marriage produced four children:

In 2005 she was a judge in the Italian TV show Ballando con le Stelle ("Dancing with the Stars").

Between 2006 and 2007 Romina organized exhibitions of her paintings, mainly in Milan. At the same time she dedicated herself to directing her film "Upaya" (2006).

In spring 2007 Romina Power bought a house in Sedona, Arizona, United States and decided to leave Italy forever and move to the United States. The clamorous interview in which she revealed her plans was published in an Italian magazine Diva e donna. According to Romina, she was perceived by the Italian public merely as a performer of Il ballo del qua-qua (a song for children, from her and Al Bano's album Felicità,1982), and for her it was difficult to establish herself in Italy as a painter and writer. Furthermore, she was disturbed by intrusive attention of the local press that published multiple articles with speculations about her private life and disappearance of her daughter Ylenia. [2], [3]

[edit] Filmography

  • Menage all'italiana (Menage Italian Style, 1965)
  • Come imparai ad amare le donne (How I Learned to Love Women, 1966)
  • Per amore... per magia... (For Love... for Magic, 1967)
  • Assicurasi vergine (Insurance on a Virgin, 1967)
  • L'oro del mondo (The World's Gold, 1967)
  • Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'une femme (24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, 1968)
  • Mayerling (1968)
  • Il suo nome è Donna Rosa (Her Name is Donna Rosa, 1969)
  • Pensando a te (Thinking of You, 1969)
  • Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
  • Femmine insaziabili (The Insatiables, 1969)
  • Las Trompetas del apocalipsis (Trumpets of the Apocalypse, 1969)
  • Mezzanotte d'amore (Midnight of Love, 1970)
  • Angeli senza paradiso (Angels Without Paradise, 1970)
  • Champagne in paradiso (Champagne in Paradise, 1983)
  • Il ritorno di Sandokan (The Return of Sandokan, 1996, TV miniseries)
  • Tutti i sogni del mondo (All the Dreams in the World, 2003, TV miniseries)
  • " 24 Hours In The Life Of A Woman "

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo

  • 12 Canzoni E Una Poesia (1969)
  • Ascolta, Ti Racconto Di Un Amore (1974)
  • Con Un Paio Di Blue-Jeans (1974)

[edit] With Al Bano

  • Storia Di Due Innamorati (1973)
  • Atto I (1975)
  • Des Nuits Entières (1976)
  • 1978 (1978)
  • Aria Pura (1979)
  • Momentos (1979)
  • Sharazan (1981) (Spanish)
  • Felicità (1982)
  • Felicidad (1982)
  • Che Angelo Sei (1982)
  • Que Ángel Será (1982)
  • 13 + 3 (1982)
  • The Golden Orpheus Festival 1984 (1984)
  • Effetto Amore (1985)
  • Sempre Sempre (1986)
  • Siempre Siempre (1986)
  • Libertà (1987)
  • Libertad (1987)
  • Fragile (1988)
  • Fragile (Spanish) (1988)
  • Fotografia Di Un Momento (1990)
  • Fotografía De Un Momento (1990)
  • Corriere Di Natale (1990)
  • Weihnachten Bei Uns Zu Hause (1991)
  • Navidad Ha Llegado (1991)
  • Vincerai (1991)
  • Vencerás (1991)
  • Notte E Giorno (1993)
  • El Tiempo De Amarse (1993)
  • Emozionale (1995)
  • Amor Sagrado (1995)
  • Ancora- Zugabe (1996)

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[edit] Bibliography

  • Al Bano & Romina Power: Autoritratto all A dalla R (Rizzoli 1989)
  • Cercando mio padre, (Gremese 1998)
  • Ho sognato don Chisciotte, (Bompiani 2000)
  • Kalifornia (It's here now), (Arcana 2004)

[edit] Trivia

  • The songs Sharazan and Felicità of Al Bano & Romina Power are covered in German in 1982. The German version of Felicità was sung by Conny & Jean
  • Romina is a polyglot who speaks five languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch [4].
  • The song "Fragile" was originaly recorded by Greek singer Vicky Leandros in 1983.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Biography of Romina Power at her official web site
  2. ^ tiscali.spettacoli - Romina Power: "Addio lascio l'Italia"
  3. ^ Tgcom - La Power: "Italia addio per sempre"
  4. ^ esctoday.com | We'll live it all again

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