
Miranda Martino (born 29 October 1933) is an Italian singer and actress.
Life and career
Born in Moggio Udinese from Neapolitan parents, Martino started her career as singer in 1956.[1] In 1957, she debuted at the Festival di Napoli and in 1959 she made her first appearance at the Sanremo Music Festival, with the song "La vita mi ha dato solo te".[1] In the same year she obtained her first commercial success with the song "Stasera tornerò",[1] which ranked 11 in the Italian Hit Parade.[2] Then she entered the two following editions of the Festival di Sanremo and in 1961 three of her songs entered the Top Ten ("Erano nuvole", "Frenesia" and "Serenatella c'o sì e c'o no").[2] In 1963 she obtained a critical and commercial success with the album Napoli, in which she covered twelve canzoni napoletane re-arranged by Ennio Morricone.[1] In 1965, she made her theatrical debut and from then she focused her career on stage acting and, less prolifically, on films.[1]
Discography
- Albums
 
- 1958: Magic Moments At La Capannina di Franceschi
 - 1959: 20 canzoni di Sanremo '59 (with Nilla Pizzi and Teddy Reno)
 - 1959: Miranda Martino
 - 1959: Napoli '59. Le 20 canzoni del festival (with Nilla Pizzi, Elio Mauro, Stella Dizzy and Teddy Reno)
 - 1959: Il mio vero amore (EP)
 - 1962: Miranda Martino
 - 1963: Napoli
 - 1964: Le canzoni di sempre
 - 1966: Napoli volume II°
 - 1967: Operetta primo amore
 - 1970: Donna...Amore...Dolore
 - 1971: Passione...
 - 1977: Ottimo Stato
 - 1977: La Valzerite
 - 2000: Napoli mia bella Napoli
 
Filmography
- La duchessa di Santa Lucia (Roberto Bianchi Montero, 1959)
 - Avventura al motel (Renato Polselli, 1963)
 - Canzoni in... bikini (Giuseppe Vari, 1963)
 - Sedotti e bidonati (Giorgio Bianchi, 1964)
 - Last Plane to Baalbek (Marcello Giannini & Hugo Fregonese, 1965)
 - Addio mamma (Irving Jacobs, 1967)
 - Paolo Barca, Schoolteacher and Weekend Nudist (Flavio Mogherini, 1975)
 - Gegè Bellavita (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1979)
 - A Strange Passion (Jean-Pierre Dougnac, 1984)
 - Red American (Alessandro D'Alatri, 1991)
 - Dio c'è (Alfredo Arciero, 1998)
 - Teste di cocco (Ugo Fabrizio Giordani, 1999)