Marina Fiordaliso, best known as Fiordaliso, is an Italian pop-rock singer. During her career she has sold over 6 million records.

Life and career

Born in

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

, the daughter of a drummer, Fiordaliso approached music at young age studying voice and piano. In 1981 she won the

Castrocaro Music Festival The Castrocaro Music Festival, also known as Concorso per Voci Nuove, is an Italian musical contest which takes place every year in the town of Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole, near Forlì, from 1957. The competition is exclusively reserved for ne ...

with the song "Scappo via", and the following year she debuted at the

Sanremo Music Festival The Sanremo Music Festival, officially the Italian Song Festival () and commonly known as just (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria. It is the longest-running annua ...

with the reggae-rock ballad "Una sporca poesia". Her major successes, remarkably the songs "Oramai" and " Non voglio mica la luna" (written by Zucchero Fornaciari), are linked to the Sanremo Festival, in which she participated nine times between 1982 and 2002; outside the Festival, her main hit was the song "Cosa ti farei", one of the most successful songs of the Summer 1990 in Italy. In the 90s Fiordaliso gradually moved away from the musical scene without ever abandoning it, and focused on the activities of stage actress and television presenter. She has 2 children, Sebastiano born in 1973, and Paolino in 1989.

Discography

Singles

* 1982 – Una sporca poesia * 1982 – Maschera * 1983 – * 1984 – Non voglio mica la luna * 1984 – Li-be-llu-la * 1985 – Il mio angelo * 1985 – Sola no, non-ci sto * 1986 – Fatti miei * 1986 – La vita è molto di più * 1986 – Vive * 1987 – Il canto dell'estate * 1988 – Per noi * 1989 – Se non-avessi te * 1990 – Cosa ti farei * 1991 – Il mare più grande che c'è (I love you man) * 1991 – Saprai (with Roby Facchinetti) * 1992 – Dimmelo tu perché * 1997 – Disordine mentale * 1998 – Come si fa * 2000 – Linda Linda (Arabian Song) * 2003 – Estate '83 * 2007 – Io muoio * 2008 – M'amo non M'amo * 2009 – Canto del sole inesauribile

Foreign Singles

* 1984 – Yo no te pido la luna * 1985 – Sola no, yo no sé estar * 1986 – Desde hoy * 1991 – I love you man (Il mare più grande che c'è) * 1991 – El mar más grande que hay * 1991 – Sabrás (with Riccardo Fogli) * 1991 – Sposa di rosa * 1997 – Como te amaré

Albums

* 1983 – ''Fiordaliso'' * 1984 – ''Fiordaliso'' (reissue of the above, with the addition of "Non voglio mica la luna") * 1984 – ''Discoquattro'' * 1985 – ''A ciascuno la sua donna'' * 1985 -''Fiordaliso – Dal vivo per il mondo'' (live) * 1986 – ''Applausi a Fiordaliso'' (reissue of the above, with the addition of "Fatti miei" and the removal of "You know my way" and "Sola no, yo no sé estar") * 1987 – ''Fiordaliso'' * 1989 – ''Io... Fiordaliso'' (collection with three new songs) * 1990 – ''La vita si balla'' * 1991 – ''Il portico di Dio'' * 1992 – ''Io ci sarò'' * 1994 – ''E adesso voglio la luna – I grandi successi'' (collection with two new songs and 9 remixes) * 2002 – ''Risolutamente decisa'' (collection with three new songs and 9 remixes) * 2004 – ''Come si fa'' (collection with two new songs)

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* * * * {{Authority control 1956 births Living people People from Piacenza Italian pop singers Italian rock singers