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Alessandra Mussolini’s Album Is Actually Very Good.

With “Amore,” she created one of the most memorable Italo Disco and Citypop crossovers.

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Disco Bambino & Angelica Frey
Sep 01, 2024
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Alessandra Mussolini attempted several paths to stardom. Her aunt Sophia Loren mentored her, and in 1977, she had a minor role for the movie A Special Day, which both won an American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and got an Academy Award nomination in the same category and the 1985 World War II film The Assisi Underground. In 1983, she posed for two international editions of Playboy magazine: the Italian one in August and the German one in November. 

However, her most genre-defining impact in pop culture came by way of music, an album with the title Amore exclusively released for the Japanese market in 1982. It contains songs in Italian, English, and Japanese

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