Giovanna Nocetti (born 10 March 1945), known mononymously as Giovanna, is an Italian singer, record producer and songwriter, mainly successful in the 1970s.
Life and career
Born in
Viareggio
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It is known as a seaside resort as ...
, Giovanna started playing the guitar during her high school years, and after a year at the university she eventually decided to abandon her studies and to move to
Milan
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to pursue a music career.
[Nicola Sisto. "Giovanna". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990.] In 1967, she signed a contract with the label , and the same year she recorded her first single, "Ricordi notturni", composed by her own.
Giovanna became first known in 1970, thanks to her participation to the
RAI
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musical show ''
Settevoci'', and the same year she got her first hit, "Io non volevo dimenticare".
In 1971 she released her first album, ''Una corsa pazza''. In the late 1970s she passed to the label
Ri-Fi, getting her major hit with the song "Il mio ex", written by
Paolo Limiti
Paolo Mario Limiti (8 May 1940 – 27 June 2017) was an Italian lyricist, journalist, radio and television writer and presenter.
Born in Milan, Limiti begin his career as a journalist, then in 1960 he started a long collaboration with Mike Bongi ...
and
Roberto Carlos
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.
In 1982 Giovanna founded her own label, Kicco Records. In 1985 she composed a musical version of
Ave Maria
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, which she also performed at the Sala Nervi in
Vatican City
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in the presence of
Pope John Paul II
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.
From the mid-1980s Giovanna focused her activity both as a singer and as a producer on rediscovering and reworking Italian classic songs.
Discography
;Album
* 1971: ''Una corsa pazza''
* 1973: ''Ho passato un brutto inverno''
* 1975: ''Una storia quasi vera''
* 1980: ''Giò''
* 1982: ''Giovanna''
* 1983: ''Macchie d'amore''
* 1984: ''’Na sera 'e maggio''
* 1985: ''Tentazioni''
* 1987: ''La voce dell'amore''
* 1990: ''Giò''
* 1991: ''L'amante mia''
* 1991: ''Vecchio frak''
* 1993: ''Noi, fra un tango e una canzone''
* 1994: ''Lega l'amore''
* 1994: ''Giò - La donna che amo''
* 1997: ''Giovanna canta Nino Rota''
* 1999: ''Songs e melodies''
* 2000: ''Le canzoni di Paolo Limiti''
* 2008: ''The best of my life''
* 2010: ''Il mio ex - Le canzoni di Paolo Limiti vol. 2''
References
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1945 births
People from Viareggio
Italian pop singers
Italian women singer-songwriters
Italian singer-songwriters
Living people
Italian record producers
Italian women record producers