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Mayor Manfredi awards the Medal of the City of Naples to Miranda Martino

The actress: «I haven't been from Naples for a long time, but Naples is everything to me»

Mayor Manfredi awards the Medal of the City of Naples to Miranda Martino.

“Noble and refined actress interpreter of the authentic tradition of Neapolitan song, deeply linked to her immense musical heritage which she enhanced with her inimitable voice". The mayor's will is contained in these words Gaetano Manfredi to confer to Miranda Martino the Medal of the City of Naples. On Wednesday morning, in the Sala Giunta, at Palazzo San Giacomo, the mayor presented the artist with the plaque which shows the reason for the recognition which was also given to her in “sign of profound gratitude and admiration”. The moment of delivery, which was also attended by the mayor's delegate for the Musical and Audiovisual Industry, Ferdinand Tozzi, was preceded by a lecture by the journalist Federico Vacalebre.

Miranda Martino debuted in 1955 by winning the competition “New voices for Sanremo” and in almost seventy years of career she has shown her artistic talent as a singer, as a performer of musical revues and operettas alongside Nino Taranto, Carlo Daiuto, Erminio Macario and Sandro Massimini, and as an actress in both brilliant and dramatic roles. In the cinema you have worked, among others, with Toto, Tina Pica, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Rey, Sabrina Ferilli e Alessandro Gassman; in the theater with Piera degli Esposti, Arnoldo Foà, Mario scaccia, Giorgio Albertazzi, Gigi Proietti e Matthew Garrone. In the musical field, the five participations in the Naples Festival, starting from 1957, the three participations in the Festival of Sanremo between 1959 and 1961, and the collaborations with great authors such as Armando Trovajoli, Luis Bacalov and Ennio Morricone. Morricone was responsible for the direction and arrangements of the classic Neapolitan songs performed by Miranda Martino in the 1960s and reprinted on the occasion of her recent ninetieth birthday.

«I haven't been from Naples for a long time, but Naples is everything to me. My father was from Aversa and my mother from Angri, even though I was born in Moggio Udinese. Artistically he started with Nino Taranto, we held the Piedigrotta Festival and then we did many things together. This recognition has extraordinary value. I just wonder why it wasn't given to me sooner.", he commented pleasantly Miranda Martino.

«It is a due recognition to a great artist who represented and represents a piece of the musical history of the city. We are valorising this history which is made of tradition, talent and identity. From this perspective we are very grateful to Miranda Martino for the contribution she gave to Naples and to Neapolitan song », concluded the mayor Manfredi.

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