With a career that started while he was still a child, Sal da Vinci has consistently built bridges between pop and Neapolitan tradition in songs that strike a chord across generations. Sal cut his teeth in the music business in the 1970s alongside his father Mario Da Vinci, an acclaimed voice of canzone napoletana. But the singer-songwriter and actor found his own enduring success with a stream of tender love songs and diverse collaborations spanning musica leggera icon Ornella Vanoni and rapper Clementino—while in 2024 he went viral with the yearning, electronics-laden “Rossetto e caffè”.