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Nino Rota (December 3, 1911 - April 10, 1979) was an Academy Award winning Italian composer. He is particularly remembered for his work on film scores, especially The Godfather series and a number of films by Federico Fellini. His work on the The Godfather Part II won Best Original Score of 1974. Rota was born into a musical family in Milan, and studied at the conservatory there under Ildebrando Pizzetti. Later, the conductor Arturo Toscanini encouraged him to go to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to study. This he did, where he worked under Fritz Reiner, amongst others. He later returned to Milan,...

Riziero "Riz" Ortolani (25 March 1926 – 23 January 2014) was an Italian film music composer. Ortolani was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1926. In the early 1950s he founded his own jazz band. In 1962 Ortolani wrote his first film score for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's pseudo-documentary "Mondo cane", whose main title-song "More" earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song. The success of the soundtrack of "Mondo cane" led Ortolani to score films in UK and in the United States such as "The 7th Dawn" (1964), "The Yellow Rolls-Royce" (1964), "The...

Saturnino Celani - better known just as Saturnino (Ascoli Piceno, 26 october 1969) is an italian bass player and record producer. He's Jovanotti's official bassist since 1991. Besides his solo projects, he worked also with Piero Pelù, Luciano Ligabue, Mietta, Franco Battiato, Pino Daniele, Max Pezzali. .