A legendary, flamboyant showman of Italian pop music, Renato Zero started out
performing a drag act at the age of 14 before becoming a cult glam rock
favourite in the mid-1970s and selling over 40 million records.
Growing up in central Rome, his father was a policeman and his mother a nurse,
but Renato Fiachini had a theatrical streak from a young age and was briefly
enrolled at the Roberto Rossellini State Institute for Cinematography and
Television. Even in his early days he stood out from the crowd with his make-up,
feather boas and sequinned stage outfits, but his camp, se...