Romantic balladeer, Drupi (born: Giam Piero Anelli) became one of the few Italian artists to have a hit a hit in the United Kingdom when his song, Vado Via, reached the seventeenth slot on the British pop charts in 1974. The winner of the San Remo Festival song competition, the tune remained in the British top fifty for three months and was subsequently covered by the Loud Family, the New Seekers and Frida.