Salvatore Adamo was born in 1943 in Comiso (Sicily). Strongly influenced by Italian lyrics, Adamo’s first encounters with music led him to take part in a competition for chocolate brands.

In 1960, the song 'Si j'osais' became well known, following its broadcast by Radio Luxembourg. A short time afterwards, Adamo released two singles in Italian for Philips Belgique, as well as albums in English and Italian for Polydor. With the help of Charles Aznavour, the first press reports were published about the artist.

In 1962 he recorded 'En blue jeans et blouson de cuir’ and 'laissons dire' for EMI. One year later, Belgium discovered its latest pop idol with Adamo’s release of “Sans toi, ma mie”.

Before launching his international career, he performed at the Heysl Stadium (Brussels) in the presence of the Belgium Royal Family. Following this, he went on tour in Turkey, Lebanon, Canada and Holland.

In 1967, he received an award for the best selling album in France and Belgium during the last year at MIDEM in Cannes, for the film ‘Les Arnaud’.

From that point onwards, Adamo went on tour in Japan, South-America, Africa, Asia and Russia.

In 1983 Adamo composed “Les collines de Rabiah”, inspired by events that had happened in Lebanon. Eight years later he was awarded the Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) and in 1993 he was made into a Unicef Ambassador.

After his hugely successful performance 'Adamo en sinfónico', he celebrated his thirty-year musical career in Olympia.

In 1998 he released a new album with fourteen songs entitled “Regards", followed by a two-month tour in France, in addition to twenty four concerts in France, Belgium and Germany.

His next project was released in shops on February 20th 2001, entitled "Par les temps qui courent", which preceded another tour of Belgium, Quebec, Turkey, France and Germany. The following year, his tour continued in Hong Kong, Japan, Chile, Moscow, France and Belgium; one year later he released yet another album.

In 2003, Adamo celebrated his forty-year musical career with a spectacular concert, dedicated to all those people that had followed his musical orientation, tours and career. On May 28th 2004, Salvatore was forced to halt his new tour due to a brain haemorrhage. Fortunately, he made a complete recovery and was able to appear, after one year of obligatory rest, on stage once more at Mons Theatre on May 4th 2005. It is important to note that the artist completely recovered all his faculties, transforming his illness into nothing more than a bad memory.