Nico Fidenco

Nico Fidenco (born Domenico Colarossi, 1933-2022) was an Italian singer and film composer from Rome. Self-taught, he became known with Su nel cielo (What a Sky), from Francesco Maselli's film I delfini, and his single Legata a un granello di sabbia was the first 45 to sell more than a million copies in Italy. From the 1960s he wrote many film scores, for westerns and later for Joe D'Amato. Nico Fidenco scored westerns such as In a Colt's Shadow, John the Bastard and Bury Them Deep.