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- Birth nameAmleto Roelens
- Puccio Roelens was born on September 15, 1919 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a composer, known for Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Yankee (1966) and Piccolo slam (1978). He died on July 30, 1985 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Roelens recorded some albums on his own with his compositions and instrumental versions of international hits; he also worked for RAI, making television themes (the best known is the one for Piccolo slam, Toccami, sung by Stefania Rotolo).
- He had a musical career almost entirely devoted to jazz; he was one of the first in Italy to play jazz music with his orchestra at the end of World War II, a genre that at the time was regarded as a vulgar import from the states.
- With Baldo Rossi and OtelloCanapino he also formed a trio, specializing in instrumental covers of songs by Nat King Cole.
- "Musica per commenti sonori", also known as "Lipstick" and released by Costanza, came in 1979 after a couple of memorable LPs, "Research Of Sound" and "Rock Satellite", and is one of Roelens' latest examples of library music before his death, which occurred in 1985.
- The fortunate encounter with the composer Armando Sciascia led him to write arrangements for many albums released by Vedette Records (Sciascia's own label) and, in the mid-seventies, to compose some of the rarest and most revered library music ever released.
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