Rita Pavone

Italian ballad and rock singer who enjoyed success through the 1960s. Pavone is also an actress.

In the summer of 1964 she had chart success in North America with a record sung in English titled "Remember Me", backed with "Just Once More". In 1965, Pavone participated as a musical guest on The Ed Sullivan Show, becoming a frequent guest there until 1970. Meanwhile, she scored a string of hits, both with ballads and rock songs, in Spain, where she became a teen idol. Pavone enjoyed so much fame in Spain that it was commented, during a 2005 television documentary from that country, that such success for a foreign singer there is rare.

In the United States she sang alongside Diana Ross and The Supremes, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Jones, Duke Ellington, Paul Anka and a number of singers of the era.