Berto Pisano | |
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Born | Cagliari, Italy | 13 October 1928
Died | 29 January 2002 Rome, Italy | (aged 73)
Berto Pisano (Umberto Pisano) (13 October 1928 – 29 January 2002) was an Italian composer, conductor, arranger and jazz musician.
Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Pisano started his career as a contrabassist in the jazz groups Quartetto Astor and Asternovas.[1] He is best known as composer of pop songs, for, among others, Mina, and a composer of musical scores for films and TV-series;[1] his major hit was "A blue shadow", the theme song of the RAI TV-series Ho incontrato un'ombra, which ranked first at the Italian hit parade in 1974.[2][3]