Giuseppa Marcella Bella, born June 18, 1952, is an Italian pop singer known
professionally as Marcella Bella. The younger sister of musician Gianni Bella,
she won the Festival degli sconosciuti in 1965, though she was disqualified due
to age restrictions. She made her recording debut in 1969 with the single “Il
pagliaccio” under the name Marcella, followed by “Hai ragione tu” in 1971. Her
breakthrough arrived in 1972 when she competed at the Sanremo Music Festival
with “Montagne verdi”, composed by her brother, which reached number 3 on the
Italian charts. Throughout the 1970s an...