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Paolo Zavalloni

Born: August 29, 1932

El Pasador, also known as Paolo Zavallone, pseudonym of Paolo Zavalloni was an Italian singer-songwriter, keyboardist and arranger who rose to prominence in the second half of the seventies. He is the father of the singer Cristina Zavalloni.

Since the fifties he has used the pseudonym Paolo Zavallone, riffing off the names of two major Italian artists like Fred Buscaglione and Renato Carosone.

He began his activity as a musician in the early fifties, playing keyboards in the group that accompanied Henghel Gualdi, and then, in 1957, establishing his own band, which featured, among others, trumpeter Al Korvin and singer Luciana Sasdelli.

Paolo Zavallone: oltre mezzo secolo nel mondo dello spettacolo

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 8, 2012

Fra tanti protagonisti dell'attualità, italiani o stranieri, Cristina Zavalloni è senza dubbio colei di cui negli ultimi quindici anni ho scritto maggiormente: programmi di sala, interviste, recensioni di CD, concerti, opere liriche... Probabilmente sono in pochi a sapere che la cantante bolognese è figlia d'arte ed anzi ha mosso i suoi primi passi artistici da bambina ...