Fiorello (ロザリオ・フィオレッロ)

Fiorello was born in Catania, Sicily, and raised in Augusta, Sicily. He began his career working in tourist villages, first as a barman, and then as an entertainer. Near the end of the 1980s, Fiorello was brought to Milan by Bernardo Cherubini, whom he had met in Valtur Villages. Bernardo, brother of Jovanotti, who introduced him to Claudio Cecchetto, who directed Radio Deejay and where he met Antonio Germinario, a talent-scout, that become his manager for many years. Soon afterwards, Fiorello began hosting the show "Viva Radio Deejay" with Marco Baldini.
Having become popular through the TV show Karaoke, Fiorello went on to host various TV shows. Soon after, he endured a period of drug problems that kept him away from the world of TV. However, he returned to show business and television in the 1990s, displaying great abilities as a showman, first in the Mediaset networks, then with RAI in 2001, 2002, and 2004 with Stasera Pago Io.
Since 2002, Fiorello has hosted the radio broadcast Viva Radio 2 together with Marco Baldini and the musician Enrico Cremonesi, during which Fiorello shows off his skills as a singer, mimic and entertainer. The authors of the program were Rosario Fiorello with Marco Baldini, Francesco Bozzi, Alberto De Risio, Riccardo Cassini and Federico Taddia. In the summer of 2003, was published the 1st of a long series of CD's that collected the best of his radio show. The CD's included the imitation of: Mike Bongiorno and the Forgetful of Cologno (Berlusconi), Andrea Camilleri, Antonio Cassano, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Gianni Minà, Franco Califano, Carla Bruni, Oliviero Toscani, Marina Flaibani from Onda Verde, Nanni Moretti, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Ignazio La Russa, the prince Albert of Monaco, Monica Bellucci and her husband Vincent Cassel and many…

Fiorello's most famous imitations include Mike Bongiorno, and that of Silvio Berlusconi as a character called Smemorato di Cologno who, in the parody, loses his memory every time something related to communism is mentioned. Smemorato di Cologno is a pun on the main character of the Italian comedy Lo smemorato di Collegno, Cologno being instead the headquarters of Berlusconi's well-known media company. Other famous impressions and characters include:

Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Andrea Camilleri, an Italian writer
The Signorina buonasera, a RAI announcer
Antonio Cassano, an Italian Football player
Avvocato Messina, a lawyer who defends his clients with absurd pleas
Barbara Palombelli, an Italian journalist
Bruno Vespa, an Italian journalist
Carla Bruni
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, former President
Federico Moccia, an Italian writer
Franco Battiato, an Italian singer/songwriter
Franco Califano, an Italian singer/songwriter
Gianni Minà, an Italian journalist
Gianni Morandi, an Italian singer
Giorgio Napolitano, current President
Giovanni Muciaccia, the presenter of the TV program Art Attack
Giulietto e Romeo, two gay truck drivers
Kim Jong-il
Kimi Räikkönen
Ignazio La Russa, an Italian politician
Luciano Pavarotti, Italian Operatic Tenor
Maurizio Costanzo
Marco Carta, an Italian singer who won the Sanremo Music Festival in 2009
Marina Flaibani of the radio program Onda Verde
Martano Volpi, a mad man from Tuscany
Monica Bellucci
The "mostroinviato" (monster-correspondent), which in Italian sounds like "nostro inviato" (our correspondent)
Nanni Moretti, an Italian director and actor
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer
Paolo Fava, an imaginary jazz player
Padre Georg, Benedetto XVI's secretary
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
The hunchback of Notre Dame, a character of Riccardo…

Singles
La canzone del sole (1991)
Azzurro (1991)
Una carezza in un pugno (1992)
Si o No (Please don't go) (1993)
Spiagge (1993)
Puoi (1993)
Mare Nostrum (1993)
Finalmente tu (1995)
Ridi (1995)
Dimmi dimmi perché (1998)
Vivere a colori (1998)
Città vuota (2004)
L'appuntamento (2005)

Album
Veramente falso (1991)
Nuovamente falso (1992)
Spiagge e lune (1993)
Karaoke Compilation (1993)
Finalmente tu (1995)
Saro Fiorello (1996)
Dai miei amici cantautori (1997)
Batticuore (1998)
I miei amici cantautori (2000)
Fiorello the Greatest (2002)
A modo mio (2004)

Duets
With Caterina: Il cielo – Favola semplice, (1994)
With 360 Gradi: E poi... non ti ho vista più 2003
With Marco Baldini: Chi siamo noi (dall'album Chi siamo noi – Gli inediti di Viva Radio 2) 2007
With Giorgia: Più (dall'album Spirito libero - Viaggi di voce 1992-2008) 2008
With Claudio Baglioni: Porta Portese (dall'album QPGA) 2009
With Max Pezzali: Sei un mito (dall'album Max 20) 2013
With Mina: Baby, It's Cold Outside (dall'album Christmas Song Book 2013
With Matteo Brancaleoni and Fabrizio Bosso: "L'italiano" (from the album Made in Italy) 2015
With Danti: Fatti mandare dalla mamma 2017

Compilation
Uno è famoso, l'altro no: il meglio di Viva Radio2 CD + LIBRO (2002)
Viva Radio 2 (il meglio del 2003) (2003)
Viva Radio 2 (il meglio del 2005) (2005)
Viva Radio Deejay - Il meglio di... (2006)
Viva Radio 2 (il meglio del 2006) (2006)
Fiorello e Baldini visti da dietro (2006) – DVD –
Viva Radio 2 (il meglio del 2007) (2007)
Chi Siamo Noi (Gli inediti di Viva Radio 2) (2007)
Pronto c'è Mike: Telefonate al "vero" Mike Bongiorno con libro di Aldo Grasso (2008)
Viva Radio 2 (il meglio del 2008) (2008)