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Key facts
- Also known as
- Pino Mango
- Born
- Giuseppe Mango , ( 1954-11-06 ) 6 November 1954, Lagonegro , Italy
- Died
- 8 December 2014 (2014-12-08) (aged 60), Policoro , Italy
- Genres
- Pop rock , folk , world music
- Occupation
- Singer-songwriter
- Instruments
- Vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar
- Years active
- 1976–2014
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Giuseppe
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Lagonegro
- Place of death
- Policoro
- Spouse
- Laura Valente
- Child
- Angelina Mango
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Genre
- pop rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.mango.it
- Image
- Mango a Sanremo 1985.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Lagonegro
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- social media followers
- 28100
- date of death
- 2014-12-07
- Commons category
- Giuseppe Mango
- date of birth
- 1954-11-06
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Pino Mango
- start of work period
- 1976-00-00
- unmarried partner
- Laura Valente
- pseudonym
- Mango
- different from
- Mango
- copyright representative
- SIAE
- nickname
- Pino
- influenced by
- Peter Gabriel
- writing language
- Italian
Sources (3)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Mango, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Giuseppe "Pino" Mango (6 November 1954 – 8 December 2014), better known mononymously as Mango, was an Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He was known for his style which fuses pop, rock, folk, world music and for his extensive vocal range. He is best known for the song "Oro", from his 1986 breakout album release Odissea. Other hits include "Lei verrà", "Mediterraneo", "Bella d'estate", "Amore per te", "Come Monnalisa", "Nella mia città" and "La rondine".
Mango has been defined by Italian music author Mario Luzzatto Fegiz as an "authentic innovator of Italian pop music" and AllMusic considers him an "Italian rock fusion innovator". He wrote songs for Italian artists such as Patty Pravo, Loredana Bertè, Andrea Bocelli, Mietta. Part of his repertoire was performed by Italian and foreign musicians, including Mina, Mia Martini, Leo Sayer, Hélène Ségara and Eleftheria Arvanitaki.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mango” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.