Volare (Dany Brillant/Dean Martin) cover

"Nel blu dipinto di blu" (English: In the Blue, Painted Blue), popularly known as "Volare" (I will fly), is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno. Written by Franco Migliacci and Domenico Modugno, it was released as a single on 1 February 1958.

Winning the 8th Sanremo Music Festival, the song was chosen as the Italian entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958, where it won third place out of ten songs in total. The combined sales of all the versions of the song exceed 22 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular Eurovision songs of all time and the most successful Sanremo Music Festival song ever.

It spent five non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 in August and September 1958 and was Billboard's number-one single for the year. Modugno's recording subsequently became the first Grammy winner for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1958.

The song was later translated in several languages and it was recorded by a wide range of performers, including Bobby Rydell, Dean Martin, Al Martino, David Bowie, Gipsy Kings and Barry White.

This cover is the Dany Brillant version from his 2007 album "Histoire D'un Amour". Daniel Cohen-Biran better known as Dany Brillant (born in Tunis, Tunisia on 28 December 1965) is a Tunisian-Jewish-French vocalist.

This is the lyrics translated into English:

I think, such a dream
Will never return.
I painted hands and face in the blue
And then suddenly the wind kidnapped me
And I began to fly in an infinite sky.

To fly,
To sing
In the blue, painted in the blue,
I am happy to be above.

And I flew, flew happy
Higher the sun and even higher
While the world disappeared slowly far away down.
A sweet music played only for me.

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And I flew, flew happy
Higher the sun and even higher
While the world disappeared slowly far away down.
A sweet music played only for me.

To fly,
To sing
In the blue, painted in the blue,
I am happy to be above.
And I flew, flew happy

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