Nuovi eroi is the second album by Italian

Italy

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 pop

Pop music

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/rock

Rock music

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 singer Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti , known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Ramazzotti is enormously popular in Italy, and is well known in most non-English-speaking European countries and in the Spanish-speaking world, as he has released most of his albums in both...

, produced by Piero Cassano and released in 1986 on the BMG

BMG

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 label.

Lead single "Adesso tu" won the 1986 San Remo Music Festival, and topped the singles charts in Italy, Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and Austria

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. The version included on the album is 1:05 longer than the single version, with additional instrumental passages. Nuovi eroi went on to reach #1 in the same three countries. It is the first of eleven consecutive full-length studio albums by Ramazzotti, up to and including 2009's Ali e radici

Ali e radici

Ali e radici , also known by its Spanish name Alas y raíces, is a 2009 studio album by Italian singer-songwriter Eros Ramazzotti....

, to top the Italian Albums chart.

The CD

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 issue of the album contains four additional tracks taken from Ramazzotti's debut album Cuori agitati

Cuori agitati

Cuori agitati is the debut album by Italian pop/rock singer Eros Ramazzotti, produced by Piero Cassano and released in 1985 on on the BMG label....

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Track listing

(Tracks written by Pierangelo Cassano, Adelio Cogliati, Eros Ramazzotti unless stated)

1. "Un cuore con le ali" - 3:52
2. "Un nuovo amore" - 4:11
3. "E mi ribello" - 4:22
4. "Fuggo dal nulla" - 3:47
5. "Con gli occhi di un bambino" - 4:19
6. "Lacrime di gioventù" - 4:52
7. "Emozione dopo emozione" - 4:34
8. "Adesso tu" - 5:04
9. "Nuovi eroi" - 4:11
10. "Una storia importante" - 4:09
11. "Cuori agitati" - 3:45
12. "Buongiorno bambina" (Cassano, Ramazzotti() - 4:15
13. "Terra promessa" (Ramazzotti, Alberto Salerno) - 3:45

(Tracks 10-13 also included on Cuori agitati)

Chart performance

• Italy - #1
• Switzerland - #1
• Austria - #1
• Sweden
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