title: Giacomo Rondinella
text: # Giacomo Rondinella
  
  Giacomo Rondinella (30 August 1923 – 25 February 2015) was an Italian singer and actor.
  
  ## Life and career
  
  Born in Messina, the son of a couple of Neapolitan actors and singers, Rondinella started his career as a singer after World War II, following failed attempts to pursue a military career and a career as a boxer. He first emerged as the winner of a contest for "New Voices" organized by Radio Napoli, and in a short time he became one of the stars of Canzone Napoletana. A real-life friend of Totò and Eduardo De Filippo, Rondinella also had a prolific career as a stage and film actor, with a peak in the first half of the 1950s. His younger brother Luciano also had a career of actor and singer.
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * Fire Over the Sea (1947)
  * Naples Sings (1953)
  * Letter from Naples (1954)
  * Farewell, My Beautiful Lady (1954)
  * Sunset in Naples (1955)
  