Francesca Alotta (born 1 January 1969) is an Italian

pop singer Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

, best known for the song " Non amarmi".

Background

Born in

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The city is noted for it ...

, Alotta started her career in 1988, as a member of the female group Compilations. She started her solo career in 1991, winning the

Cantagiro Cantagiro was an Italian summer song contest held from 1962 to 1972 and 1990 to 1993. It featured three categories, A for famous artists, B for newcomers and C for groups. The creator of the competition was Ezio Radaelli. The name of the festival w ...

with the song "Chiamata urgente". In 1992, Alotta won the "Newcomers" section of 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 song "Non amarmi", a duet with Aleandro Baldi, which later became an international hit with the title "

No Me Ames "No Me Ames" (English: "Don't Love Me") is a Latin pop duet recorded by American singers Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony for Lopez's debut studio album, '' On the 6'' (1999). It is a Spanish cover version of the Italian song "Non Amarmi", writte ...

". In 1993 she returned to Sanremo Festival, this time entering the "Big Artists" section, with the song "Un anno di noi". The same year, she was cast in the

Rai 1 Rai 1 () is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's flagship television channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream and ge ...

show ''

Domenica in ''Domenica in'' is an Italian Sunday long-running television show broadcast by Rai 1 since 1976. During its history, the title was also spelled as ''Domenica in...'' and ''Dom&Nica in''.Aldo Grasso – Massimo Scaglioni, ''Enciclopedia della Tel ...

''. In 1997 she entered the music festival "Viva Napoli". In 2004 Alotta was cast in the

Rai 2 Rai 2 is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It is the company's second television channel, and is known for broadcasting '' TG2'' news bulletins, tal ...

reality show ''Music Farm''.

Discography

;Album * 1992 - '' Francesca Alotta'' * 1993 - ''Io e te'' * 1997 - ''Buonanotte alla luna''

References

External links

Francesca Alotta
at

Discogs Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the la ...

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alotta, Francesca 1968 births Italian women singers Living people Musicians from Palermo Italian pop singers Sanremo Music Festival winners of the newcomers section