Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, guitarist, and later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament.
He is known for his 1958 international hit song "Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year.
He is considered the first Italian cantautore.
Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Piero Tellini
Piero Tellini (16 January 1917 – 22 June 1985) was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Born in Florence, the son of the soprano Ines Alfani(the Soprano Opera singer for 10 years with Arturo Toscanini), Tellini graduated at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and in 1938 he entered the cinema industry as an assistant director.
He later dedicated to the activity of screenwriter, contributing to the success of the Italian neorealism and notably collaborating with Luigi Zampa, Alberto Lattuada, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alessandro Blasetti and Eduardo De Filippo.
In 1947 Tellini won the Nastro d'Argento for the script of Zampa's "To Live in Peace", while in 1952 he was awarded the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Mario Monicelli's and Steno's "Cops and Robbers".
Starting from 1954 he was also active as a film director.
He was first married to actress Liliana Tellini.
From his first wife his children, Massimo, Marco, Donina, Elizabeth, reside in Italy.
From his second wife, Joan Tellini, his one daughter Chiara Tellini resides in California.
He and cousin Franco Zeffirelli, both began their career under the tutelage of his mother Inez in the Opera.
Italian screenwriter Piero Tellini is best known for having penned two highly regarded Italian neorealist films, Alberto Lattuada's The Bandit (1946) and Luigi Zampa's Vivere en Pace (1946).
He also penned the Palme D'Or-winning script for Guardie e Ladri (1951).
Tellini is a graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
One of the projects most dear to Piero, Was American Youth (Giovani In America), a documentary about everything that made America "America", which was produced by RAI TV and shown in 5 European countries.
Unfortunately it never aired in the United States.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Icy Blu
Icy Blu( born Laurel Yurchick, June 1, 1974) is an American recording artist who had a brief pop career in the early 1990s.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Willy Alberti
Willy Alberti( 14 October 1926 – 18 February 1985), born Carel Verbrugge, was a Dutch singer, who sang in Dutch and Italian.
He was also an actor and a radio and TV personality.
Alberti was born in Amsterdam as the third of eight children to Jacobus Wilhelm Verbrugge and Sophia Jacoba van Musscher.
He sang with family members at a very young age.
He began recording professionally in the early 1940s.
In 1944 he married Ria Kuiper and his daughter Willeke Alberti, later to become a successful Dutch vocalist herself, was born in 1945.
After the war Alberti established himself in the Netherlands with Italian songs; he became increasingly popular in the 1950s, when he had a string of hits beginning with" Nel blu dipinto di blu" in 1958.
In the 1960s he began to act alongside his daughter Willeke; as a duo, they also scored hits on the Dutch charts.
From 1965 father and daughter presented a popular monthly television show for the AVRO.
Alberti won two Edison Awards in the 1960s.
In the 1970s Alberti's fame began to decline, though he did score a few hits.
In 1984 Alberti was diagnosed with liver cancer, and died in Amsterdam on 18 February the following year.
He was cremated at the Westgaarde Crematorium in Amsterdam.
In 1998, a Willy Alberti museum was established; it quickly closed due to lack of interest.
Nel blu dipinto di blu (film)
Nel blu dipinto di blu , also known as "Nel blu dipinto di blu – Volare", is a 1959 Italian comedy film written and directed by Piero Tellini and starring Domenico Modugno, Giovanna Ralli and Vittorio De Sica.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

Question: What is the place of birth of the director of film Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Film)?
Answer: Florence