Non Ho L’età (Per Amarti) is a piece of music written by Nisa, Mario Panzeri and Gene Colonnello for the music and by Nisa and Colonnello alone for the lyrics presented at the 1964 Sanremo Festival; the rules of the event stipulated that each composer could only bring one tune to the competition, therefore Colonnello chose to write only L’interno cosa fai?, performed by Piero Focaccia and Bobby Rydell. Subsequently, however, the song was also regularly credited to him at the SIAE.
Sung at the Sanremo Festival by the then sixteen-year-old Gigliola Cinquetti paired with the Italian-Belgian Patricia Carli, the song was a surprise success winning the competition from big names in the competition such as Claudio Villa, Milva, Gino Paoli and Domenico Modugno. Carli presented the song with lyrics in French, while keeping the title in Italian.
Cinquetti recorded the song in the single Non ho l’età (per amarti)/Sei un bravo Ragazzi (CGD, N 9486), while Patricia Carli included it in Non ho l’età (per amarti)/So happy (Bel Air, ba 11001). In March of that year the song was taken by Cinquetti herself to the Eurovision Grand Prix in Copenhagen, achieving a real triumph: the performance received 49 votes, almost three times as many as those of the second place winner, the British Matt Monro; this proportion was never subsequently equaled by any other winner. The feat gave Italy its first ever victory in the European singing competition.
In the wake of this success Non ho l’età excelled in various European countries. Gigliola Cinquetti recorded various translated covers: Luna nel blu for the German market, No tengo edad for the Spanish-speaking market, Je suis à toi for the French market, This Is My Prayer for English speakers and Yumemiru omoi in Japanese; for the Icelandic public, however, the song Heyr mína bæn (Hear my prayer) was a complete rewrite of the lyrics. In the same year as the song’s launch, Nancy Cuomo recorded her own version for the Neapolitan record label KappaO.
Non Ho L’età Lyrics (1991)
Non ho l’età, non ho l’età
Per amarti, non ho l’età
Per uscire sola con te
E non avrei
Non avrei nulla da dirti
Perché tu sai
Molte più cose di me
Lascia che io viva
Un amore romantico
Nell’attesa
Che venga quel giorno
Ma ora no
Non ho l’età, non ho l’età
Per amarti, non ho l’età
Per uscire sola con te
Se tu vorrai
Se tu vorrai
Aspettarmi
Quel giorno avrai
Tutto il mio amore per te
Lascia che io viva
Un amore romantico
Nell’attesa
Che venga quel giorno
Ma ora no
Non ho l’età, non ho l’età
Per amarti, non ho l’età
Per uscire sola con te
Se tu vorrai
Se tu vorrai
Aspettarmi
Quel giorno avrai
Tutto il mio amore
Per te
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