Sara Mattei (born 28 April 1995), known professionally as Mara Sattei, is an Italian singer-songwriter.

Biography

Mattei was born in

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and is the older sister of Italian singer and record producer Tha Supreme. Her music career began in 2009, when she started uploading covers of various songs to

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. In 2013, she took part in the thirteenth season of the Italian talent show ''

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'' reaching the final stage of the show before being eliminated on the second Live show. After the show, she released her debut EP ''Frammenti: Acoustic Covers N.1.'' After a few years of inactivity, in which she moved to

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, in 2019 she resumed her musical career under the pseudonym Mara Sattei, obtained by interchanging the initials of her first and last name. Her first releases under the pseudonym "Nuova registrazione 326", "Nuova registrazione 402" and "Nuova registrazione 527" were produced by her brother Tha Supreme and achieved a fair amount of success in Italy. "Nuova registrazione 326" in particular has been certified

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and can thus be marked as her breakthrough release. In 2020, she and Tha Supreme collaborated with Congolese-Belgian singer Lous and the Yakuza on a remix of the single "Dilemme". In the same year, she appeared on the single released the single "Spigoli" Tha Supreme and Carl Brave. The two songs reached positions 3 and 1 on the Classifica FIMI Artisti respectively and were certified

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, marking another success in her career. On January 14, 2022 she released her first studio album ''Universo'', with the extracted singles "Ciò che non dici" and " Parentesi", the latter in collaboration with Italian singer

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. The album charted on seventh place on the Classifica FIMI Artisti, and was promoted through the ''Universo Tour 2022''. In the summer of that year, Sattei also collaborated with

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and

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on the song "

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", which reached position 1 on the Classifica FIMI Artisti. The song was certified gold in

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and triple platinum in Italy. On 4 December 2022, Mara Sattei's participation in the

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was officially announced. Her entry is titled " Duemilaminuti" and is the result of collaboration with

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's frontman Damiano David and Tha Supreme. In 2024 she published a collaborative album with his brother Tha Supreme ''Casa Gospel'', which peaked at number two on Italian Album Charts and was certified gold by FIMI.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Guest appearances

Television

Tours

* 2022 – ''Universo Tour 2022''

References

{{reflist Italian women pop singers Italian women singer-songwriters 21st-century Italian singer-songwriters 1995 births Living people People from Fiumicino Italian Roman Catholics