Salvatore Adamo, or simply Adamo, is an Italian-born composer and singer of ballads, whose songs were mainly in French but also in other languages, and had commercial success during the sixties and seventies, mostly in continental Europe, and also in Japan and Latin America. Adamo has sold over 95 million albums worldwide. He now lives in Belgium near the city of Mons, and is still touring. Biography Salvatore Adamo was born 1 November, 1943 in Comiso, Sicily, Italy. His father Antonio, a well digger, emigrated to Belgium in February 1947 to work in the mines of Marcinelle, and in June of the same year, his wife, Concetta, a housewife, and their son Salvatore joined him in the town of Ghlin before moving to Jemappes. In 1950, Salvatore was bedridden for a year with meningitis. Salvatore's parents did not want their son to become a miner, so Salvatore went to a Catholic school run by the Frères des Ec

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