Felicita: Al Bano & Romina Power….Nothing like a bit of Italopop to see out the old year. Al Bano and Romina Power were an Italian pop music duo formed by then-married couple Albano Carrisi and Romina Power, daughter of American actor Tyrone Power. They are best known for their songs Felicità, Sempre sempre and Nostalgia Canaglia. The two separated in 1999.
Albano Carrisi was born in Cellino San Marco, Brindisi, Apulia, on 20 May 1943 as first of two sons of Carmelo and Iolanda Carrisi. His name comes from the circumstance that his father was imprisoned in Albania at the time of the birth. At the age of 12 he wrote his first song, “Addio Sicilia”. At the age of 16 he moved to Milan in the hope to assert himself in music. He jobbed as waiter, construction worker and assembly-line worker.
Romina Francesca Power was born on 2 October 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA as the first of two daughters of Tyrone Power and Linda Christian. At birth Romina was a healthy six-pound, eleven-ounce baby and she was named in honor of the Italian church in which her parents were married. After her parents’ divorce in 1956 Romina lived with her continent-traveling mother, her younger sister, Taryn, and their nanny. She was only seven years old when her father died. She lived in Mexico and went to Italy when her mother married again. Still she went to college in England.
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