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.. She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties. And she later became an interpreter of songs, composer, an actress and then finally an artistic researcher. She is primarily noted for being a singer in the Sardinian language, which was of course respectfully her native tongue.

Sannia died in Cagliari

Cagliari

Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...

at the age of 61 on April 14, 2008.

Biography

Having been a basketball player with good level in Cus Cagliari (which also called the national), Marisa Sannia began her musical career in the early sixties, winning a competition for new items that allowed her to get a record deal with the Cetra Fonit.

Her talent was spotted by Endrigo Sergio and Luis Enriquez Bacalov that sought to tap into composing a piece for her debut recording "All or nothing" and promoting its participation in 1967, on television as "real Scala" and "Settevoci".

The recognition received by the television appearances allowed participating in the same year, two musicarelli: "Kids of yellow flag", "Stasera mi butto", alongside Giancarlo Giannini.

After a few discrete successes (A postcard, Be proud of me - award of record criticism), and participation in Festivalbar 1967 where she ranks of the 'third round in the young, Marisa Sannia knew the real popularity in 1968 when she ranked second in the Festival di Sanremo with White House, written by Don Backy and sang in couple with Ornella Vanoni, who became a great success, so as to be inserted in the soundtrack of the film "Alfredo Alfredo", by Pietro Germi.

After the success Sanremo, Marisa Sannia published her first album. Followed some discs successful "A tear", "the company" (composed by Charles Donida and Mogol and resumed in 1976 by Lucio Battisti and then in 2007 by Vasco Rossi), "Love is a dove", "How sweet the evening tonight" and "my land".

Marisa Sannia also worked in film and participated in various events such as singing Canzonissima (1972, inter alia with a song by Nino Tristan, "A Kite"), the International Festival of Light Music of Venice, A Song for Europe in Switzerland and again in 1970 in San Remo in 1971 and 1984.

In the early seventies she devoted herself to theater by participating in two musical (Cain and Abel and stories suburbs) very successful alongside Tony Cucchiara and in some work directed by Giorgio Albertazzi. Still under the wing of Sergio Endrigo, also participated in the album The Ark, a collection of songs by Vinicius de Moraes dedicated to children. In 1973 she published a disc with songs taken from the Walt Disney movie entitled Marisa in Wonderland.

In 1976 was published her first songwriter collection as interesting song entitled "The pasta sheet".

In the early eighties Sannia Marisa also appeared in television drama "George Sand" with Albertazzi, Anna Proclemer and Paola Borboni and participated in the film by Pupi Avati "Help me to dream". In 1984 the return to Sanremo with "love Love" that followed a long period of isolation from the scene.

In 1993 the she returned with a disc in the Sardinian language in which the verses of music Antioco Casula, Sardinian poet active in the first half of the twentieth century, entitled "Sa oghe de su Entu e de su mare". Marisa Sannia later returned to the theater with Albertazzi in "memories of Adriano" - Portrait of an entry of 1995.

In 1997 recorded the new disc Melagranàda in collaboration with the poet writer in contemporary Francesco Masala is a collection from the Poesias in duas limbas. In 2002 she participated in "songs for you", a tribute to Sergio Endrigo, interpreting "Hands holes".

In 2003 she published a third collection in the Sardinian language, and "Nanas and Janas", with new words and music written by herself. This research is poetic and musical recital summarized in "Songs between two languages on the way of poetry" presented in important exhibitions in Italy and abroad as The Night of the Poets all'anfiteatro Nora Roman, at Taormina Film Festival and as part of the exhibition Rome Meets the World . In January 2006 took part in the concert tribute to Sergio Endrigo, entitled "Hello Poet" and collected in a CD / DVD, which interprets "The White Rose" and "How ever tonight."

The last work, posthumously published and distributed (Felmay - Egea distributions) in November 2008 (preview Tenco Award) and Marisa Sannia "Rosa de papel" is dedicated to the life and poetry of Federico García Lorca. This is a collection of 12 songs, is particularly dear to the singer/Songwriter who has to music the poems of the great poet of youth. Among the songs are some real musical gems as: "El nino mudo", "Rosa de papel", "Laberytos y espeyos", "Hi cerrado my balcon".

As she won the Festival della Canzone d'Autore for Children. Marisa Sannia was interested in the work of other artists. And some of her own compositions have been covered also in Spain by singer Ester Formosa.

Due to a sudden and serious illness Marisa Sannia died April 14, 2008. In August 2008, her memory is due to the recognition of the award "Maria Carta." Also worth mentioning is that in January 2009, the great artist Maria Lai dedicated to the figure of Sannia an exhibition of her works.

Discography

• Marisa Sannia (Fonit Cetra, 1968)
• Marisa Sannia canta Sergio Endrigo e le sue canzoni (CGD, 1970)
• Marisa nel paese delle meraviglie (EMI Italiana, 1973)
• La pasta scotta (CBS, 1976)
• Sa oghe de su entu e de su mare (Tekno Record, 1993)
• Melagranàda (Nar, 1997)
• Nanas e janas (Nar, 2003).
• Rosa de papel (Felmay) (2008)

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