Pupo

Pupo is an Italian singer and television presenter, born Enzo Ghinazzi on 11 September 1955 in Ponticino, in the province of Arezzo. He adopted the stage name Pupo early in his career and became one of the more commercially successful Italian pop artists of the late 1970s and early 1980s, with a style rooted in melodic pop and light ballad traditions common to the Italian market of that period.

His international profile was boosted significantly by his participation in Eurovision Song Contest 1980, where he represented Italy with "Roma (Non Farmi Così)," finishing in second place. His recordings circulated across European markets during this period, and releases on Eastern European state labels — where licensed pressings of Western pop acts were common practice — brought his music to audiences in countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union. These regional pressings, issued on labels like Supraphon, Pepita, Melodiya, and others, are the primary reason his name appears in Eastern Bloc record collections.

For collectors focused on Eastern European pressings, Pupo's records are of interest as examples of how Italian pop was licensed and distributed behind the Iron Curtain during the late socialist period. The pressings vary in scarcity depending on country and format, and condition-graded copies on original state labels attract consistent attention from collectors of the era's pop output.