Known by the stage name of Renato Zero, Renato Fiacchini is born in Rome on
September 30, 1950. 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 55 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 ou...