Live Nation Spain Chairman Knighted In Italy

Italy-born Pino Sagliocco, the chairman of Live Nation Spain, received the Italian Cavaliere (Knight) of the Order of the Star for his achievements in promoting Italian culture in his adopted home country of Spain.

For more than 40 years, Sagliocco has worked on keeping Italian culture alive outside of Italy.

– Pino Sagliocco Knighted
Live Nation Spain Chairman Pino Sagliocco receives the Italian Cavaliere (Knight) of the Order of the Star. With the promoter are Francesco Maccarrone, head of Secretariat-General of the Barcelona Consulate, and Italian consul general Stefano Nicoletti.

“Pino Sagliocco’s house in Ibiza is still Italy’s best embassy abroad. Where the products of the earth and music that are both unmistakably Mediterranean are never missing. The cream of international artists have passed through its doors,” the announcement by Live Nation Spain reads.

“The cream” includes Frank Zappa, Lenny Kravitz, George Michael, Naomi, Renzo Arbore, Eros Ramazotti, Eugenio Bennato, Peppino di Capri and more.

Sagliocco’s legacy includes televised shows of international artists such as The Rolling Stones and Madonna in Barcelona, the Soñadores de España with Placido Domingo and Julio Iglesias in Seville, George Michael in Madrid, Leonard Cohen in San Sebastian, Whitney Houston in La Coruña and Sinatra in Barcelona.