Dio, come ti amo

Presented by Domenico Modugno at Sanremo in 1966, Dio, come ti amo was lucky enough to have its second performance interpreted by Gigliola Cinquetti, who turned out to be a perfect partner for this song. On the one hand, in fact, there’s the vital exuberance of an adult man who realizes how great the love he’s experiencing with his partner is, and on the other, the amazing discovery of love by a young girl who is now of an age for love and has rushed into it with her whole self to "kiss your lips that smell of wind", as one of the verses of the song goes. A highly successful balance between two very different performers, which led to the fourth victory in nine years at the Festival for Modugno and also the second in three years for Cinquetti, thus confirming a beautiful reality for the Italian song, destined for lasting success. Dio, come ti amo, triumphed at Sanremo, taking second place at 46 points from Nessuno mi può giudicare. It immediately became very popular, abroad as well; in Italy it was promptly recorded by Iva Zanicchi and the same year by the Brazilian singer Giane, entitled Meu Deus como te amo, and the Argentine Violeta Rivas, Dios, como te amo. Modugno recorded it in German, Ich Liebe Dich Immer Mehr, Shirley Bassey made an English version in 1991, Oh God, How Much I Love You, while in more recent times Mina recorded it in 2001 on the disc Sconcerto, Paola Turci and Francesco Renga in their respective albums Attraversami il cuore and Orchestra  e voce, both of 2009, and also Anna Tatangelo in 2015, on her album Libera.