Marco Mengoni is currently one of Italy’s most famous singer-songwriters. He first rose to fame in 2009 after winning the Italian version of X-Factor. Then, in 2013, he won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song L’essenziale, earning him the right to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest where he came in seventh place. …
Perfect Symphony is a bilingual duet between British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli. Released on December 15th 2017, the song received three nominations at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, as did its official music video. The first part of the song is sung by Ed Sheeran in English, while the …
One of the most poignant songs of our times is The Prayer, a crossover duet recorded by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and Canada’s best-selling recording artist Celine Dion. Written by David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa and Tony Renis, it won a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1999 and, a year …
O Sole Mio is one of the most well-known songs to emerge from Italy, along with the likes of Nel blu dipinto di blu and Caruso. Written in 1898 by Giovanni Capurro and Eduardo di Capua, it has been recorded by dozens of artists and translated into various languages, most famously Elvis Presley’s It’s Now …
Il Volo is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. After winning the Sanremo Music Festival in 2015 with the song Grande Amore, they represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, reaching third place, and achieving first-place in the tele-voting. They are set to perform as an …
Gigliola Cinquetti was the first ever Italian winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with her song Non Ho L’Età (Per Amarti) which translates as I’m Not Old Enough (to Love You). Fifty-eight years after her win, she will be performing the song during the Grand Final of the 2022 Contest in Turin. Below you can …