Thegiornalisti () was an Italian

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band formed in 2009. They debuted in 2011 with the album ''Vol. 1'', but they reached recognition with the third album ''Fuoricampo'', released in 2014, which led them to sign with label

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. On 21 June 2017, the band released the single "

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", which became a

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and peaked number 1 on Italy's Singles and Albums Charts, ranked by

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. Their fifth album ''Love'' reached the top of the weekly chart of the best-selling albums in September 2018. In 2019, frontman

Tommaso Paradiso Tommaso Paradiso (born 25 June 1983) is an Italian singer, songwriter, filmmaker, and former frontman of the indie pop band Thegiornalisti. Life and career Born in the Prati district of Rome to a family with Campania Campania is an administr ...

left the band in order to start a solo career.

Discography

Albums

Extended plays

* ''Canzoni fuori'' (2012)

Singles

References

Musical groups established in 2009 Musical groups disestablished in 2019 Musical groups from Rome Italian indie pop groups {{Italy-band-stub