Edda Dell'Orso

Who is Edda Dell'Orso?

Edda Dell'Orso is an Italian singer, especially known for her collaboration with composer Ennio Morricone for which she provided wordless vocals to a large number of his film scores. Dell'Orso also provided vocals to film scores of other Italian composers such as Bruno Nicolai, Piero Piccioni, Luis Bacalov and Roberto Pregadio.

Her name is synonymous with Morricone and in particular, the film scores of the original spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, where her dramatic voice was deployed as an instrument for the first time and to revolutionary effect. such as in A Fistful of Dollars, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Once Upon A Time In The West.