Gianni Ferrio

Gianni Ferrio (16 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger. Life and career Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at the conservatories of Vicenza and Venice. Starting in the late 1950s, he was active as a composer of film scores. He composed some 120 soundtracks, mostly for Spaghetti Westerns and commedie sexy all’italiana films. Ferrio is also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed hit songs such as “Parole parole” and wrote arrangements and orchestrations for many songs and albums. The last collaboration with Mina was on her 2012 album 12 (American Song Book), for which Ferrio provided the string arrangements. Ferrio served as conductor for the Sanremo Music Festival in 1959 and 1962, for the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, and for several Italian TV shows. He died on October 21, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Selected filmography *Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960) *Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960) *A Dollar Of Fear (1960) *Gentlemen Are Born (1960) *Hercules in the Valley of Woe (1961) *5 marines per 100 ragazze (1961) *Appuntamento in Riviera (1962) *The Two Colonels