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"Non ho l'età (per amarti)" (Italian for "I'm not old enough (to love you)"), usually given as just "Non ho l'età" (pronounced [non ˈɔ lleˈta]), was the winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964, held in Copenhagen. It was performed in Italian by Gigliola Cinquetti representing Italy. Like all previous Italian Eurovision entries, the song had also won that year's Sanremo Music Festival. Cinquetti was sixteen years old, making her the youngest Eurovision winner in history until 1986 when Belgium's Sandra Kim won the contest with "J'aime la vie" – initially claiming to be fifteen, it was later revealed that Kim was only thirteen.[1] In 1990, the EBU made a new rule requiring contestants to be aged 16 or older before the contest; this age rule still operates.

"Non ho l'età"
Single by Gigliola Cinquetti
B-side	"Sei Un Bravo Ragazzo"
Released	28 January 1964
Genre	Ballad
Length	3:10
Label	CGD Records
Songwriter(s)	Mario Panzeri Nicola Salerno
Producer(s)	Mario Panzeri
Gigliola Cinquetti singles chronology
"Non ho l'età" (1964) "Dio, come ti amo" (1966)
Eurovision Song Contest 1964 entry
Country	Italy
Artist(s)	Gigliola Cinquetti
Language	Italian
Composer(s)	Mario Panzeri
Lyricist(s)	Nicola Salerno
Conductor	Gianfranco Monaldi
Finals performance
Final result	1st
Final points	49
Entry chronology
◄ "Uno per tutte" (1963)
"Se piangi, se ridi" (1965) ►

The song was performed twelfth on the night, following Portugal's António Calvário with "Oração" and preceding Yugoslavia's Sabahudin Kurt with "Život je sklopio krug". By the close of voting, it had received 49 points, placing it first in a field of 16.

"Non ho l'età" became a considerable commercial success for Cinquetti, in Italy, the rest of Europe, Scandinavia and other countries worldwide; she also recorded the song in English ("This is my prayer"), Spanish ("No tengo edad"), French ("Je suis à toi"), German ("Luna nel blu"), and Japanese ("Yumemiru omoi", 夢みる想い). The song has since been recorded by a wide range of artists in other languages, for example, in Icelandic as "Heyr mína bæn" by Ellý Vilhjálms.[2][3] Lili Ivanova, a famous Bulgarian singer, and Hong Kong singer Rebecca Pan, covered the song in 1964. Polish-Belarusian singer Wiesława Drojecka [pl] covered the song in Polish ("Nie wolno mi"). Anneli Sari [fi] made a Finnish cover ("Liian nuori rakkauteen"). Sandra Reemer recorded the song in Dutch ("Als jij maar wacht").

The song was followed as contest winner in 1965 by France Gall singing "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" for Luxembourg. It was followed as Italian representative that year by Bobby Solo with "Se piangi, se ridi".

Cinquetti later returned to perform at the contest in 1974, when she finished second with "Sì", behind ABBA's "Waterloo". In 1991, she co-hosted the contest in Rome alongside Toto Cutugno. Also in 2022, she performed the song as an interval act at Eurovision in Turin.

Cinquetti was proved not to be a UK 'one-hit-wonder' when an English recording of her 1974 Eurovision entry (titled "Go") reached #8 in the UK chart.

Charts

Chart (1964)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[4]	1
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[5]	1
France (InfoDisc)[6]	1
Germany (Media Control AG)[7]	3
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[8]	2
Norway (VG-lista)[9]	3
UK Singles (OCC)[10]	17

Linda Scott's version

"This Is My Prayer"
Single by Linda Scott
from the album Hey, Look at Me Now!
A-side	"That Old Feeling"
Released	1964
Length	2:54
Label	Kapp Records
Songwriter(s)	Kaye-Springer-Nisa
Producer(s)	Mike Berniker

Linda Scott's recording of the song's English version, "This Is My Prayer", was released as the B-side of the single "That Old Feeling" in late 1964. In the Philippines, it topped the national chart for 12 straight weeks beginning on 12 December 1964.[11][12]

References

На других языках

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[de] Non ho l’età (per amarti)

Non ho l’età (per amarti) (italienisch für „Ich bin nicht alt genug [dich zu lieben]“) ist ein Lied von Gene Colonnello, Nisa und Mario Panzeri aus dem Jahr 1964. Die italienische Sängerin Gigliola Cinquetti gewann damit zunächst das Sanremo-Festival 1964 und in der Folge auch den Eurovision Song Contest 1964. Dieser Erfolg zog mehrere (auch fremdsprachige) Coverversionen nach sich, besonders erfolgreich war darunter die französische Version Je suis à toi von Patricia Carli.

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- [en] Non ho l'età

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[es] Non ho l'età

«Non ho l'età» —[non ˈɔ lleˈta]; en español: «No tengo la edad»[1]— es una canción compuesta por Mario Panzieri e interpretada en italiano por Gigliola Cinquetti.[2] Se lanzó como sencillo en 1964 mediante CGD.[2] Fue elegida para representar a Italia en el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión de 1964 tras ganar el Festival de la Canción de San Remo 1964, y se declaró ganadora de esa edición.[3][4][5]

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[it] Non ho l'età (per amarti)

Non ho l'età (per amarti) è un brano musicale scritto da Nisa, Mario Panzeri e Gene Colonnello per la musica e dai soli Nisa e Colonnello per il testo presentato al Festival di Sanremo 1964; il regolamento della manifestazione prevedeva che ogni compositore potesse portare in gara un solo motivo, pertanto Colonnello scelse di firmare soltanto L'inverno cosa fai?, interpretata da Piero Focaccia e Bobby Rydell[1]. In seguito, tuttavia, il brano fu regolarmente accreditato anche a lui alla SIAE[2].

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[ru] Non ho l’étà

Non ho l'età (Per amarti) (рус. Я ещё маленькая (чтобы любить тебя)) – песня композитора Николы Салерно, с которой итальянская певица Джильола Чинкуетти одержала победу на фестивале песни в Сан-Ремо и на конкурсе песни Евровидение-1964. На Евровидении песня набрала 49 очков из 75 возможных (65%), что стало к тому времени рекордом конкурса. Когда Джильола Чинкуетти победила на Евровидении, ей было шестнадцать лет, и долгое время она являлась самым молодым победителем конкурса. В 1986 году этот рекорд был побит тринадцатилетней бельгийской певицей Сандрой Ким.

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