Ricchi e Poveri ( “The Rich and The Poor”) is an Italian pop group formed in Genoa in 1967, originally consisting of Angela Brambati, Angelo Sotgiu, Franco Gatti and Marina Occhiena. Active since the late 1960s, they have sold over 20 million records.
They are among the Italian artists with the highest number of records sold, with more than 22 million copies they are the second Italian group for sales, behind Pooh. In the seventies and eighties several of their singles reached the top of the Italian and international charts; among these are La prima cosa bella, Che sarà, Sarà perché ti amo, Come vorrei, Mamma Maria and Voulez vous danser, some of which were chosen as theme songs for popular television programs, including two ending theme songs for Portobello. They have participated in 13 Sanremo Festivals, which they won in 1985 with the song Se m’innamoro, as well as having represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978.
In January 2025 they entered among the twenty artists with the most certified copies of Sanremo songs in the history of the Festival in the FIMI era.
