Documented family tree & key facts Lady Gaga — Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. b. New York City, 28 March 1986.Her Italian roots are on her father’s side: two Sicilian lines from the Province of Messina, both families of shoemakers. (Her mother Cynthia Bissett’s side is American.) Paternal grandfather’s line — Germanotta, of Naso (Messina) Antonino…
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The composer who reinvented the tango was Argentine by birth, but his roots run to two corners of Italy — the Adriatic port of Trani in Puglia, and a mountain village above Lucca in Tuscany.
Documented family tree & key facts Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen — “The Boss.” b. Long Branch, New Jersey, 23 September 1949.His Italian roots run through his mother, Adele Ann Zerilli; the Springsteen surname is Dutch, from his father Douglas. Maternal line — Zerilli, of Vico Equense (Naples) Andrea Zerilli, caffettiere (the family behind the Gran…
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“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” The line the song mourned had a birthplace all along — Isola delle Femmine, a fishing village off Palermo, where the ballplayer’s parents were married in 1897, their names still in the register.
