Spagna
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Spagna is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...
, Italy
Italy
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) is an Italian
Italian people
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singer
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
and songwriter
Songwriter
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.
Career
She started her career singing in EnglishEnglish language
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and in the early 1980s she provided vocals
Human voice
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(with Angela Parisi) and wrote song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
s for an Italo Disco duo
Duet (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists; with other instruments, the word duo is also often used. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as...
project called Fun Fun
Fun Fun
Fun Fun were a popular Italian High Energy/synth pop musical group during the 1980s. Their hits included "Colour My Love" and "Baila Bolero".Producers Dario Raimondi and Alvaro Ugolini teamed up with studio vocalists Antonella Pepe, Angela Parisi and Ivana Spagna to create a bouncy, high-energy,...
; as well as writing songs for many other dance music projects until 1986, when she embarked on a solo
Solo (music)
In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
career.
Her first dance
Dance music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...
song "Easy Lady
Easy Lady
"Easy Lady" is a 1986 song recorded by the Italian singer Spagna. It was the first single from her debut album Dedicated To The Moon on which it features as sixth track...
" (1986) was a hit throughout Europe. In 1987 she released her third hit, "Call Me
Call Me (Spagna song)
"Call Me" is a 1987 song recorded by the Italian singer Spagna. It was the second single from her debut album Dedicated to the Moon, on which it features as first track. The single was released in 1987 in most European countries. The video for the song was filmed in and around Nottingham...
". The single made No.1 in the European Chart, and reached no.2 in Italy and in the UK Singles Chart
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. It also made no.13 in the U.S.
United States
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Billboard Dance Chart
Hot Dance Club Play
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. Her first album, Dedicated to the Moon, was released the same year and sold over 500,000 copies.
After the UK hit "Every Girl and Boy" and a dance-rock album, You Are My Energy (1988), Spagna moved to Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...
, and recorded her third album No Way Out (1991). This album featured a song written by Diane Warren
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren , is a US songwriter. Her songs have received six Academy Award nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, including one win and seven Grammy Award nominations, including one win. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001...
("There's a Love"), and two singles ("Love at First Sight" and "Only Words") which peaked at #5 on the Italian chart. The album was certified Platinum (over 100,000 copies sold).
In 1993, Spagna moved back to Europe, and recorded Matter of Time, featuring the two successful eurodance
Eurodance
Eurodance is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s or early 1990s primarily in Europe. It combines many elements from House, Techno, Hi-NRG and especially Italo-Disco...
singles; "Why Me" (#10 in Italy) and "I Always Dream About You" (#5 in Italy).
In 1995, after the release of her last dance hit ("Lady Madonna", #4 in Italy), she started singing in her native Italian
Italian language
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. After achieving a great success in Italy with the Italian version of Elton John
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's "Circle of Life
Circle of Life
The song was re-recorded in 2003 by the Disney Channel Circle of Stars, a group of actors and actresses who have appeared in Disney Channel television series and original movies...
" ("Il cerchio della vita"), featured in the Italian soundtrack of the Disney film The Lion King
The Lion King
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, she took part in the Sanremo Festival, the most important Italian song contest, ranking 3rd in 1995 with the song "Gente Come Noi". Her first album in Italian, Siamo in due, sold over 350,000 copies and became the best-selling album by a female singer in Italy that year.
From that year onwards, Spagna released many successful albums sung in Italian (including hit singles such as "Siamo in due", "E io penso a te", "Lupi solitari", "Indivisibili", "Dov'eri", "Il bello della vita-World Cup Song", "Con il tuo nome") until 2003, when she left Sony Music in order to sing in English again. She signed to an independent Swiss record label (B&G), and recorded Woman, a dance-pop album featuring eight new songs in English, two in Spanish and one in French. The album spawned three singles; "Never Say You Love Me", "Woman" and "Do It With Style". In 2004 a new remixed version of "Easy Lady" was released.
Spagna's albums and singles have sold a total of over 10 million copies worldwide, for which she has been awarded the "Disco d'oro alla carriera" (Gold certification for the career) by the Italian Federation of the Music Industry (FIMI) in 2006. In February 2006 she took part in the Sanremo Festival again, with the song "Noi Non Possiamo Cambiare", and in May 2006 ranked third in the Italian reality television
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program, Music Farm.
In February 2009, she released a new EP Lola & Angiolina Project, in collaboration with the Italian rockstar Loredana Berté
Loredana Bertè
Loredana Bertè is an Italian singer. In her long career she has worked with some of the best Italian songwriters such as Enrico Ruggeri, Pino Daniele, Ivano Fossati, Mario Lavezzi, Enzo Jannacci and Mango, among others. She has experimented with different genres, from rock to reggae, from funk to...
. The first single from this was the rock ballad "Comunque vada".
Discography
Albums:| Date | Album |
|---|---|
| 1987 | Dedicated to the Moon |
| 1988 | You Are My Energy |
| 1991 | No Way Out |
| 1993 | Greatest Hits |
| Matter of Time | |
| 1995 | Siamo In Due |
| 1996 | Lupi Solitari |
| 1997 | Indivisibili |
| 1998 | E che mai sarà: le mie più belle canzoni |
| 2000 | Domani |
| 2001 | La nostra canzone |
| 2002 | Woman |
| 2004 | L'arte di arrangiarsi |
| 2005 | Diario Di Bordo |
| 2006 | Diario di bordo - Voglio sdraiarmi al sole |
| 2009 | Lola6Angiolina project (with Loredana Bertè) |
Singles
| Date | Single |
|---|---|
| 1971 | "Mamy Blue" |
| 1972 | "Ari Ari" |
| 1986 | "Easy Lady Easy Lady "Easy Lady" is a 1986 song recorded by the Italian singer Spagna. It was the first single from her debut album Dedicated To The Moon on which it features as sixth track... " |
| 1987 | "Dance Dance Dance" |
| "Call Me Call Me (Spagna song) "Call Me" is a 1987 song recorded by the Italian singer Spagna. It was the second single from her debut album Dedicated to the Moon, on which it features as first track. The single was released in 1987 in most European countries. The video for the song was filmed in and around Nottingham... " |
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| "Dedicated to the Moon" | |
| "Sarah | |
| 1988 | "Every Girl and Boy" |
| "I Wanna Be Your Wife" | |
| 1989 | "This Generation" |
| 1991 | "Only Words" |
| "Love at First Sight" | |
| 1992 | "No Way Out" |
| 1993 | "I Always Dream About You" |
| "Why Me" | |
| 1994 | "Lady Madonna Lady Madonna "Lady Madonna" is a song by The Beatles, primarily written by Paul McCartney . In March 1968, it was released as a single, backed with "The Inner Light." The song was recorded on 3 and 6 February 1968 before the Beatles left for India... " |
| "Il Cerchio Della Vita" | |
| 1995 | "Come Il Cielo" |
| "Gente Come Noi" | |
| 1996 | "Ci Sarò" |
| 1997 | "Indivisibili" |
| 1998 | "E Che Mai Sarà" |
| "Il Bello Della Vita" | |
| 2000 | "Mi Amor" |
| 2001 | "Quella Carezza Della Sera" |
| "Eloise" | |
| 2002 | "Never Say You Love Me" |
| 2003 | "Do It With Style" |
| 2004 | "Easy Lady 2004" (Ice & Cream vs Spagna) |
| 2010 | "Call Me 2010 Remake" |