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Rita Pavone (1945 - ) Italy This singer and television presenter lives in the Swiss canton of Ticino with its Mediterranean climate. Rita Pavone was born in Turin in 1945 to family impoverished after the war. At a very young age, she worked as a seamstress for a meager 50 Swiss francs a week. Rita Pavone was little, but she had big dreams of becoming a famous singer. By 15, she had already won the Festa degli Sconosciuti talent contest for undiscovered young artists in Ariccia, near Rome. The organizer Ted >>>