“I love my heritage, I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African”. Alicia Keys has fire in her, and it totally owes it to Teresa Augello, her native Sicilian mother who literally made the impossible to give her daughter the best chances. And she succeded. Read more…

Bradley Charles Cooper is an American actor and producer. His mother, Gloria Campano, is of Italian descent, daughter of Angelo J. Campano, and niece of Pasqualina Cilla. Bradley’s maternal grandmother was Assunta DeFrancesco, who was born in Ripa Teatina, Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy.
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Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper was born in Astoria, Queens, NYC, to an Italian American family. Her father Fred was of German and Swiss descent, while her mother Catrine Gallo comes from Sicily. At seventeen, while moving to Canada, she spent two weeks in the woods with her dog Sparkle trying to find herself.
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What the Boss and “Pizza al metro” have in common? We’d say a kind woman named Adele. Bruce is son of Doug and Adele Zerilli, of Italian descents from Vico Equense, where the famous “Pizza al metro” was born. And this is his sense of Italian life, as he explained in his autobiography “Born to Run”.
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“Big Mike” has loved Michelangelo and Leonardo since he was a kid. Now he’s becoming an artist of his own, and maybe some of their talent is helping him through his path. No doubt his Italian roots are helpful, too.
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Living in a typical numerous Italian family can have some of pathological: no privacy, children are jealous each other… But you can have an artistic advantage. Want an example? Susan Criscione, or we’d better say Sarandon: she is of Italian mother, Lenora Marie Criscione. Being part of kind of Italian tribe had a role in Susan’s art.
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