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Italy In The Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Italy was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Grande amore", written by Ciro Esposito and Francesco Boccia. The song was performed by the male operatic pop trio Il Volo. Italian broadcaster RAI announced in September 2014 that the winning performer(s) of the Sanremo Music Festival 2015 would have the right to represent the nation at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. The selected performer would also be given the right to choose their own song to compete with at Eurovision. In February 2015, Il Volo emerged as the winners of Sanremo with the song "Grande amore". The trio accepted the invitation to represent Italy at Eurovision and decided that "Grande amore" would be their contest entry. As a member of the "Big Five (Eurovision), Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom), Italy competed directly in the final on 23 May 2015 and did not have to qualify from one of two semi-finals held on 19 May and 21 May. However, Italy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival 2015
The Sanremo Music Festival 2015 (), officially the 65th Italian Song Festival (), was the 65th annual Sanremo Music Festival, a television song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, between 10 and 14 February 2015 and broadcast by (RAI). The show was presented by Sanremo Music Festival 2012, 2012 and Sanremo Music Festival 2014, 2014 winners Emma Marrone, Emma and Arisa, along with Spanish television presenter and model Rocío Muñoz Morales and artistic director Carlo Conti. The Big Artists section included 20 established Italian artists, competing with a song each, while eight artists performed in the Newcomers' section. On 13 February 2015, Giovanni Caccamo won the Newcomers' section with "Ritornerò da te", also receiving the "Emanuele Luzzati" Award, the Critics' Award "Mia Martini", and the Press, Radio, TV & Web Award "Lucio Dalla". He also co-wrote the song "Adesso e qui (nostalgico presente)", performed by Malika Ayane, which received the Critics' Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael Gualazzi
Raffaele Gualazzi (born 11 November 1981), better known as Raphael Gualazzi (), is an Italian singer and pianist. He was born in Urbino. Biography ''Love Outside the Window'' On 16 September 2005, Gualazzi released his first studio album, titled ''Love Outside the Window'' and distributed by Edel Music. In 2008, Gualazzi recorded a cover of "Georgia on My Mind" for the compilation ''Piano Jazz'', released in France by Wagram Music. Sanremo Festival 2011 In September 2010 he released a self-titled digital EP in Italy and Europe. The EP features a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop (Fleetwood Mac song), Don't Stop" and three new songs written by Gualazzi, including his first single, "Reality and Fantasy". The song was later released in a remix version by British/French DJ Gilles Peterson. On 18 February 2011, he won the Sanremo Music Festival 2011, Sanremo Festival in the Newcomers section, the Critics' "Mia Martini" Award for Newcomers and the "Sala Radio-Tv" Award with the sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annalisa
Annalisa Scarrone (born 5 August 1985), better known mononymously as simply Annalisa or Nali, is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer. After being part of two bands, Elaphe Guttata and leNoire (formerly Malvasia), she rose to fame after coming in second in the tenth season of the Italian talent show ''Amici di Maria De Filippi'' (2010–2011). Subsequently, Annalisa participated for the first time at the Sanremo Music Festival 2013 with the song " Scintille". After her first participation, Annalisa took part in the Sanremo Music Festival 5 more times, reaching the podium twice, in 2018 with " Il mondo prima di te" and in 2024 with " Sinceramente". In 2023, she topped the Italian singles chart for the first time with the song " Mon amour", becoming the first female soloist to do so in over three years. Throughout her career she has received several awards including a Global Force Award at the Billboard Women in Music 2024 becoming the first Italian artist to receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Tatangelo
Anna Tatangelo (born 9 January 1987) is an Italian Pop music, pop singer and television personality. At the age of 15, she became the youngest person to win the Newcomer's Award at the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival singing contest. Her repertoire consists mainly of pop music with slight influences of neo-melodic in some of the songs composed for her by singer Gigi D'Alessio, but also in the fifth fusion albums Progetto B. She confronted several social issues and current affairs, such as the empowerment of women, homophobia, anorexia and violence against women. Since 2007 she also wrote some songs. She participated in the Sanremo Music Festival six times in ten years, winning in 2002 with the song "Doppiamente fragile" and getting on the podium three more times: in 2005, when she came third in the category "Women" with "Ragazza di periferia", in Sanremo Music Festival 2006, 2006, when she came third overall and first in the women category with "Essere una donna" and in Sanre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Britti
Alessandro "Alex" Britti (born 23 August 1968) is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist. Biography When he was 17, he started his first band, playing blues at clubs in Rome, and eventually moved to Milan. In 1989 he established the Alex Britti Blues Band. He has worked with Buddy Miles, Billy Preston, Louisiana Red and has toured Europe with Rosa King. In the mid-1990s, he toured with Francesco De Gregori. The experience prompted Britti to switch to a more soft rock-oriented sound. He had his first hit in 1998 when " Solo una volta (o tutta la vita)" made it to the top of the Italian charts. In 1999 he won in the newcomers category at the Sanremo Festival The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by (RAI). It is the longest-running ... with the song " Oggi sono io". Discography Albums * 1998 - ''It.Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Zilli
Maria Chiara Fraschetta (born 2 February 1980), better known by her stage name Nina Zilli (), is an Italian singer-songwriter. After releasing her debut single "50mila", she achieved commercial success with the album '' Sempre lontano'', released after participating in the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2010. During the Sanremo Music Festival 2012, Zilli was chosen to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where she placed 9th with the song " L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)", included in her second studio album. Zilli returned to the Sanremo Music Festival in 2015, and competed with the song "Sola" from her upcoming album, ''Frasi&Fumo''. She was also a judge of ''Italia's Got Talent'' from 2015 to 2017. Biography Childhood and early beginnings Maria Chiara Fraschetta was born on 2 February 1980 in Piacenza to a father from Emilia-Romagna and a mother from Apulia, and grew up in Gossolengo, southwest of Piacenza. After movi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luxembourg In The Eurovision Song Contest 1988
"Croire" (; "To Trust") is a song performed in French by Belgian singer Lara Fabian, written by Alain Garcia and composed by Jacques Cardona. The song was 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988, and became a hit in Europe selling nearly 500,000 copies. Lyrics The song is a ballad, with Fabian singing that she wants to believe in the good of humanity, rather than its dark side. She sings that "we have love within us", which is her central belief. Fabian also recorded the song in English and German, as "Trust" and "Glaub'" respectively. Eurovision Song Contest "Croire" was performed at the 1988 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest by Fabian as an 18 year old emerging artist, who years later became internationally established. As a child and a teenager, Fabian composed her melodies and covered others songs on the piano, performed in small show rooms around Brussels and took part in amateurs contests in Belgium during the 1980s, winning several prizes. Her win at "Le Tremp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Fabian
Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (; born 9 January 1970), known professionally as Lara Fabian (, , ), is a Belgian, Italian and Canadian singer and songwriter. She claims to have sold over 20 million records worldwide and to be one of the List of best-selling Belgian music artists, best-selling Belgian artists of all time. However, according to various media outlets and certifications, her actual record sales are estimated at 12 million. Born in Belgium to a Belgian father and an Italian mother, she moved to Quebec in 1991 and, since 1995, has held Canadian citizenship alongside her Belgian one. In 2003, she returned to Brussels to be close to her parents in Belgium, and in 2015, she lived in Walloon Brabant province in Belgium, just outside Brussels. In 2017, she returned permanently to Montreal, Quebec, to be with her family. Early life Fabian was born in Etterbeek, Brussels, the only child of Pierre Crokaert, a Flemish people, Fleming, and Maria Luisa Serio, a Sicilians, Sicili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umberto Tozzi
Umberto Antonio Tozzi (; born 4 March 1952) is an Italian pop and rock singer and songwriter. Throughout his career, he has sold over 70 million records in different languages internationally, and his biggest international hits are: " Stella Stai", " Gloria", " Tu" and "Ti Amo". Biography Tozzi was born on 4 March 1952 in Turin, Italy. He is the second son of Nicola Tozzi, a police officer originally from Vico del Gargano, and Immacolata from Montesarchio. They immigrated to Turin in 1945. In 1968, at the age of 16, Umberto Tozzi joined 'Off Sound', one of the many groups that performed in small venues around Turin. In Milan, he met Adriano Pappalardo, with whom he formed a 13-piece band and began a large-scale Italian tour. In 1974, Tozzi had his first success as a songwriter, with the song "Un Corpo, un'anima" ("One Body, One Soul"), co-written with Damiano Dattoli and performed by Wess and Dori Ghezzi. It appeared on '' Canzonissima'', an Italian music programme runnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy In The Eurovision Song Contest 1987
"Gente di mare" ("People of the sea") is a song recorded by Italian duo Umberto Tozzi & Raf. It in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, placing third. Description and performance The song is a blues-influenced ballad, in which the singers describe the qualities of the "people of the sea". They describe themselves as "people of the plain", who are "prisoners of this city", while contrasting that with the freedom of the people of the sea "who leave hingsbehind". The song was performed seventh on the night, following 's "Boogaloo" by Lotta Engberg and preceding 's " Neste barco à vela" by Nevada. At the close of voting, it had received 103 points, placing 3rd in a field of 22. While not winning the contest, the song achieved considerable popularity, becoming a Top 10 hit in most parts of Continental Europe and Scandinavia in the summer of 1987 (#7 in Switzerland, #8 in Austria, #6 in Sweden) and was included on the compilations of ''Winners and Classics'' produced to coincide wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raf (singer)
Raffaele Riefoli (born 29 September 1959) is an Italian singer-songwriter who is better known as simply Raf. He first became known in the early 1980s as a singer of Italo disco and as original singer and co-author of the hit " Self Control". He has turned to Italian-language music since the late 1980s and had further hits in his home country. Biography Riefoli lived the few first years of the 1980s in London, before starting out his musical career in 1984, landing mostly in the new wave scene with his English language debut album, ''Raf''. His first single, " Self Control", which he co-wrote with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo, was a huge hit not only in his native Italy but also in Austria (No. 7), Switzerland (No. 1) and Germany, where the single climbed as high as No. 2 in the Media Control single chart and spent a total of seven weeks within the Top 10. Raf's version of the song also managed to enter the Top-40 in France. "Self Control" was recorded and released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanremo Music Festival
The Sanremo Music Festival ( ), officially the Italian Song Festival (), is the most popular Italian song contest and awards ceremony, held annually in the city of Sanremo, Liguria, organized and broadcast by (RAI). It is the longest-running annual TV music competition in the world on a national level (making it one of the world's longest-running television programmes) and it is also the basis and inspiration for the annual Eurovision Song Contest. Unlike other awards in Italy, the Sanremo Music Festival is a competition for new songs, not an award to previous successes (like the for television, the for stage performances, and the Premio David di Donatello for motion pictures). The first edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, held between 29 and 31 January 1951, was broadcast by RAI's radio station Rete Rossa, and its only three participants were Nilla Pizzi, Achille Togliani, and Duo Fasano. Starting from 1955, all editions of the festival have been broadcast live b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
