Rita Pavone: Teddy Reno? It was hard, but I came to the wedding unsullied. Morandi made me want it.”

Rita Pavone: Teddy Reno? It was hard, but I came to the wedding unsullied. Morandi made me want it.”

“Whoever won the festival was entitled to an audition at RCA on Via Tiburtina. There I met Teddy Reno, the man of my life. I went in, he went out. I have the image in my mind, he had a jacket slung over his shoulder,” he told Corriere della Sera Rita Pavone.

“I know I wasn’t beautiful, but I had many admirers. Even Gianni Morandi flirted with me, but he wasn’t my type. We have always remained friends.” He was like my brother. We feel the same way. His shoemaker father, my turner. A lot of effort, a lot of training. I came to the wedding unsullied, even though my hormones were galloping. It was tough, I think, even for Teddy. He was nineteen years older than me and in bigoted Italy at the time that was considered a scandal. We married in 1968 and are still together. Now he doesn’t remember anything, but we only need a look to understand each other. They told us all the colors and maybe from that moment my success started to wane.”

His first big fan was his father Giovanni Pavone, a Fiat Mirafiori worker of Sicilian origin. «I am not a daughter of art, my father was a turner. When I was a kid, I sang an old Mexican song. I sat on a table and struggled to get up and down. I’ve always been small. Dad got it into his head that I had talent, he was my discoverer and my manager.”

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