,He was born on 9th January 1928 in Polignano a Mare in the Puglia region. Even as a small boy, his love of music began to show, he learnt to play the guitar and the accordion and wrote his first song when he was fifteen. Keen to live in a big city and not a small town, Domenico moved to the other end of the country and settled in Turin when he was nineteen, finding work in a factory. After completing his national service, he went to Rome where he began his musical career while still having a ‘normal’ job.
