Romina Power

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Romina Power
Romina Power in Las trompetas del apocalipsis (1969)
Born	Romina Francesca Power (1951-10-02) October 2, 1951 (age 69) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actress, singer
Years active	1964–present
Spouse(s)	Albano Carrisi ​ ​ (m. 1970; div. 1999)​
Children	4, including Ylenia Carrisi
Parent(s)	Tyrone Power Linda Christian
Relatives	Taryn Power (sister) Tyrone Power Jr. (half-brother) Ariadna Welter (maternal aunt) Tyrone Power Sr. (grandfather) Tyrone Power (great-great-grandfather)
Website	www.rominapower.guru

Romina Francesca Power (born October 2, 1951) is an American actress and singer originally from Bel-Air. She is the daughter of Hollywood matinée idol Tyrone Power and actress Linda Christian. Romina Power was half of the music duo Al Bano and Romina Power, which sold around 165 million albums internationally; their song "Felicità" was their biggest hit.^{[citation needed]}

Biography[]

Born in Los Angeles, California, Power is the eldest daughter of American screen idol Tyrone Power and his second wife, Mexican actress Linda Christian. After her parents divorced in 1956, Power and her younger sister Taryn lived with their mother in various places, mainly in Mexico and Italy where she and her sister spent much of their childhood; although Romina attended Cobham Hall School in Kent, England.^[1]

Power's interest in music was awakened in her childhood by American musicals from the 1950s, Mexican Mariachi bands, and Italian music from the 1960s. In her early teens, Power discovered The Beatles and Bob Dylan, which inspired her to compose music. After receiving a guitar as a birthday gift, she learned chords and wrote her first songs.^{[citation needed]}

Starting at the age of 14, Power appeared in several films, including the 1969 adaptation of the Marquis de Sade's novel Justine, directed by Jesus Franco. In 1960s, she was a fiancée of Stash de Rola, a son of the painter Balthus. De Rola introduced Power to Paul McCartney, Jane Asher, and Syd Barret, with whom she later became friends.^{[citation needed]}

Romina Power and Al Bano in the 1990s

She met her singer and actor husband Al Bano while acting in films during the 1960s. They married in 1970. In 1975 they formed the singing duo Al Bano and Romina Power, which became a sensation in Continental Europe and Latin America, releasing multiple albums in different languages and achieving 7th place for Italy in both the 1976 and 1985 Eurovision Song Contests. Power and Bano's biggest hits included "Felicità", "Sharazan", "Tu soltanto tu", "Ci sarà", "Sempre sempre", and "Libertà". In 1989, after the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu, their song "Libertà" was played on Romanian national radio.^{[citation needed]} Power was considered a sex symbol during the height of her career.^{[citation needed]} Sir Terry Wogan of the BBC confessed that at the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest, he allocated points to Italy based on Power's sex appeal.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983, Power declined the role of Deborah in Once Upon a Time in America, which had been privately offered to her by the director Sergio Leone.^{[citation needed]} In 2005, Power was a judge in the Italian TV show Ballando con le Stelle. Between 2006 and 2007, she organized exhibitions of her paintings, mainly in Milan. At the same time she dedicated herself to directing her film Upaya.

In 2007, Power bought a house in Sedona, Arizona and decided to move back to the United States. According to an interview she gave to the Italian press at the time, she felt to be perceived by the Italian public merely as a performer of "Il ballo del qua-qua" (a song for children), and that she found it difficult to establish herself in Italy as a painter and writer. Power also stated that she was disturbed by the intrusive attention of the local press, which published multiple articles speculating about her private life and the disappearance of her daughter Ylenia.^[2][3]

Shortly after Power's relocation in 2008, her mother Linda Christian was diagnosed with colon cancer. Power went to live in her mother's house in Palm Springs,^[which?] where she remained until her mother's death on July 22, 2011. In a November 2009 interview she gave to Italian TV she stated she had considered, at least for some time, a possible return to Italy. At present Romina Power is permanently living and working in the United States where she resides full-time.^{[needs update]}

In the fall of 2012 her album Da lontano was released, containing songs written in 1999. In the summer of 2013 Al Bano and Romina Power reunited for a concert performance in Moscow.^[4][5] In 2015 they reunited again for a guest appearance at the Sanremo Festival.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[]

Power and Carrisi separated in 1999.^[6] Their divorce was finalized in 2012. ^[7]They have four children:

• Ylenia Maria Sole (born November 29, 1970), their eldest daughter who went missing in New Orleans, Louisiana in January 1994.
• Yari Marco Carrisi (born April 21, 1973)^[8]
• Cristèl Chiara Carrisi (born December 25, 1985), who appeared in Italian reality TV show La Fattoria 2 (The Farm).
• Romina Yolanda Carrisi (born June 1, 1987), who appeared in the 2005 edition of Italian reality TV show Isola dei Famosi (a version of Survivor) with her father.

Power is a polyglot who speaks five languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French and Dutch.^[9]

Filmography[]

Al Bano and Romina Power in Greece in 1975

Films[]

Television[]

Discography[]

Solo[]

• 12 canzoni e una poesia (1969)
• Ascolta, ti racconto di un amore (1974)
• Con un paio di Blue-Jeans (1974)
• Da lontano (2012)

With Al Bano[]

• Atto I (1975)
• 1978 (1978)
• Aria pura (1979)
• Sharazan (1981) (Spanish)
• Felicità (1982)
• Felicidad (1982) (Spanish)
• Che angelo sei (1982)
• Que ángel será (1983) (Spanish)
• The Golden Orpheus Festival 1984 (1984)
• Effetto amore (1984)
• Sempre sempre (1986)
• Siempre siempre (1986) (Spanish)
• Libertà! (1987)
• Libertad (1987) (Spanish)
• Fragile (1988)
• Fragile (1988) (Spanish)
• Fotografia di un momento (1990)
• Fotografía de un momento (1990) (Spanish)
• Weihnachten bei uns zu Hause (1990) (also known as Corriere di Natale)
• Navidad ha llegado (1991) (Spanish)
• Vincerai (1991)
• Vencerás (1991) (Spanish)
• Notte e giorno (1993)
• El tiempo de amarse (1993) (Spanish)
• Emozionale (1995)
• Amor sagrado (1995) (Spanish)
• Ancora... Zugabe (1996)
• The Very Best – Live aus Verona (2015)

Bibliography[]

• Al Bano & Romina Power: Autoritratto all A dalla R (Rizzoli 1989)
• Cercando mio padre, (Gremese 1998)
• Ho sognato don Chisciotte, (Bompiani 2000)
• Kalifornia (It's Here Now), (Arcana 2004)
• Upaya, (Fazi Editore 2005)
• Ti prendo per mano, (Mondadori 2015)
• Karma Express (Mondadori 2017 )

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Romina Power.

• Romina Power – Official site (bilingual)
• Official YouTube Channel
• Romina Power at IMDb
• Romina Power discography at Discogs