Who were Gianna Nannini’s parents? The special relationship between the Sienese rocker with her mother and father
Danilo and Giovanna they were the parents of the famous Tuscan singer Gianna Nannini. Her mother Giovanna Cillesi passed away in 2014, while her father died seven years earlier. The singer’s mother died at the age of ninety-one in Siena, Nannini’s hometown. The woman, in addition to the well-known rock star, was the mother of two other children: Guido and the former Formula 1 driver Alessandro Nannini. Mother Giovanna was very close to her daughter and she never missed a concert. Nannini had time to give her mother the pleasure of becoming a grandmother, with the arrival of little Penelope in the family.
Of his relationship with parents We don’t have a lot of information, but one thing is certain: they had a truly special bond. As for the father, Danilo Nannini, was successful in the confectionery industry. He passed away in February 2007 and it was to him that the singer dedicated the song Babbino caro, symbol of their reconciliation after a difficult period.
The misunderstandings with his father Danilo to whom he dedicated a song after the reconciliation
What else do we know about Gianna Nannini’s parents? His father Danilo Nannini was, among many things, also the president of Siena for eighteen years. In honor of him, the covered grandstand of the Municipal Stadium was dedicated to him. “My father didn’t want me to sing. He came to only one concert, hidden by his parka, he was ashamed,” Gianna said in an interview with Corriere Fiorentino, regarding their often fluctuating relationship.
“He only came to the concert at the Fortezza di Siena in the summer of 1984, it was the Puzzle album tour, but he came wearing a parka and a hood so as not to be recognised, he was ashamed, I didn’t see him, they told me after he he had come to see me.” From there the way opened for a clarification: “In the end he said that I was a genius, so we made peace”, said Nannini.
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