Claudia Mori

Claudia Mori (born Claudia Moroni, 12 February 1944) is an Italian producer, retired actress and singer.

Biography

1960s

She began her career in show business as an actress playing in musicals, then in major films such as Rocco and His Brothers by Luchino Visconti and Sodom and Gomorrah by Robert Aldrich.

In 1963, she met Adriano Celentano on the film set of Uno strano tipo. Celentano left his girlfriend Milena Cantù, and in 1964 he secretly married Claudia at the church of San Francesco in Grosseto. She bore three children: Rosita (1965), Giacomo (1966) and Rosalinda (1968).

In 1964, she acted in Super rapina a Milano, the first film directed by Celentano. Thereafter, her acting career was on hiatus, in favor of that as singer. In 1964, with Non guardarmi, she recorded her first album. The flip side of the vinyl record includes a cover of Little Eva's "The Loco-Motion".

She achieved a big success while singing with her husband, in 1967 with "La coppia più bella del mondo" and in 1970, winning the Sanremo Music Festival with "Chi non lavora non fa l'amore".

1970s

She returned to the film set many years later, in 1971, with her husband in Er più - Storia d'amore e coltello with Vittorio Caprioli, Romolo Valli, Maurizio Arena and Ninetto Davoli directed by Sergio Corbucci. In 1973 she acted in the film Rugantino, with Adriano Celentano, and played Rosita Flores in L'emigrante, directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile.

In 1972 she performed with her husband and also appeared in the music video of the nonsense song Prisencolinensinainciusol which charted in several European countries.