The song Nel blu dipinto di blu, popularly known as Volare, is a world-famous Italian song. It was composed by Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci in 1958. The origin of the song occurred somewhat by accident: Franco Migliacci began writing the lyrics during a rainy afternoon, after seeing several paintings by Marc Chagall, in which blue was a dominant color. Modugno, in turn, heard Migliacci recite the first lines and suggested that they work ... See more [+] together on the song. The song won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1958 and later placed third in the Eurovision Song Contest that year.