- Author of songs like "I migliori anni della nostra vita", "Triangolo", "Cercami", "Mi vendo", "Sesso o esse" and "Il cielo"
- He plays the voice of Jack Skeleton in the Italian dubbed version of "Nightmare Before Christmas".
- Good friends with Loredana Bertè and Mia Martini.
- In 2004 his tour "Cattura il sogno/Il sogno continua" ("Catch the dream/The dream continues") was awarded by Pollstar magazine as the most successful of the year in Italy as well as one of the most successful worldwide (#30).
- Presente, his 30th album, was released in Europe and the Americas on 20 March 2009. It went multi-platinum in Italy, with 80,000 copies sold in the first week. It sold over 350,000 copies.
- From an early age, he would wear make-up and cross-dress.
- His first published single, "Non basta sai/In mezzo ai guai" (1967), sold a total of 20 copies and was quickly forgotten.
- He had several different jobs before he became famous, including an appearance in an advertisement for ice-cream; work as a dancer in a TV show; playing and dancing in two musicals; and minor roles in two Fellini movies.
- Zero is the only artist to have reached the top of the Italian charts in six different decades.
- Renato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini, an Italian singer, songwriter, producer, dancer and actor whose career spans from the 1960s to the 2020s.
- In 1993 he ranked No. 1 on the Italian charts with the LP Quando non-sei più nessuno.
- Throughout his career, Renato Zero has been a campaigner against drug abuse.
- He quit his studies early to devote himself to his true passion, the arts, more specifically playing music and singing.
- In 1979 Zero played himself in the movie Ciao Nì (his usual greeting to his fans, which is a term of endearment that can be roughly translated as "Hi, Dear!"). In Italy this film grossed more than the American blockbuster Superman.
- In the mid-1990s Zero dubbed the character of Jack Skellington and sang the songs in the Italian release of Tim Burton's motion picture The Nightmare Before Christmas.
- He likes to work with other artists, and has written songs for numerous other singers as well.
- In December 2005 he performed in the Vatican with a song dedicated to Pope John Paul II.
- With 20 million records sold, he is one of the best-selling Italian music artists.
- He recorded his first songs in 1965: "Tu", "Sì", "Il deserto", "La solitudine", which were never issued.
- In 1999, he sang his hit song "Il Cielo" at Pavarotti and Friends together with tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
- In 1980 he founded his own record label called Zeromania Music.
- Renato Zero has an album (Presente) certified Diamond by FIMI, a goal officially achieved in the Italian charts history by only five artists (Vasco Rossi, Ligabue, Jovanotti and Modà being the others).
- Zero was born in central Rome, in Via di Ripetta, next to the famed Via del Corso.
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