Ricchi e Poveri

Ricchi e Poveri (The Rich and The Poor) is a pop music group from Italy. It was formed in 1968 by Franco Gatti, Angela Brambati, Angelo Sotgiu and Marina Occhiena.
Their first public appearance was in Cantagiro 1968 with “L’ultimo amore”. Ricchi e Poveri has participated in the Sanremo Music Festival several times since 1970; in 1971 they sang there “Che sarà”, which was performed by José Feliciano and by the composer of the song’s music, Jimmy Fontana. 1971 was the last year of the Sanremo festival in which each song was performed twice, each time by a different artist. Ricchi e Poveri gave the second performance of the song, following Feliciano, who had worldwide hits with Italian, Spanish and English versions of the song. Ricchi e Poveri represented Italy in Eurovision Song Contest 1978 with song Questo Amore finishing 12th with 53 points. In 1981 Marina Occhiena left the group. Their hits include Che sarà which was also performed by José Feliciano and Jimmy Fontana.