Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno was an Italian pop singer-songwriter and musician. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "Insieme: 1992", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide.
Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter (cantautore). During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics writer. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini or Mina Anna Quaini, known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.
Mia Martini was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. She is considered, by many experts, one of the most important and expressive female voices of Italian music, characterised by her interpretative intensity and her soulful performance.
Elisa Toffoli , performing under the mononym Elisa, is an Italian singer-songwriter. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternative rock, electronica and trip hop. In Europe she is perhaps most recognised for the single "Come Speak to Me", while American audiences may recognise the song "Dancing" as featured in both the 2006 and 2007 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. On 18 December 2012, her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, "Ancora qui", was featured on Quentin Tarantino's film, Django Unchained and its soundtrack album, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
Giorgia Todrani, best known as simply Giorgia, is an Italian singer and songwriter. Known for her wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities, she is one of the most famous Italian singers, she has released ten studio albums all enjoying commercial success. Giorgia has become fairly well known throughout Europe as an ambassador for Italian pop music.
"Luce (Tramonti a nord est)" (translating to "Light (Sunsets in the North-East)") is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Elisa released on 6 March 2001 as the fourth and final extract from the second studio album Asile's World by Sugar Music. The English version of the song, "Come Speak to Me" was published in 2002.
Riccardo Dario Scamarcio is an Italian actor and film producer.
Carla Bissi, known professionally as Alice or Alice Visconti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist who began her career in the early 1970s. After releasing three albums by the end of the decade, her breakthrough came in 1981 when she won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Per Elisa". This was followed by European hit singles like "Una notte speciale", "Messaggio", "Chan-son Egocentrique", "Prospettiva Nevski" and "Nomadi" and albums like Gioielli rubati, Park Hotel, Elisir, and Il sole nella pioggia which charted in Continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Japan.
Italian singer Mina has released seventy-five studio albums, three live albums, 44 official compilation albums, six video albums and seventeen extended plays. During her career, Mina has sold more than 150 million copies of her recordings worldwide.
"Gli ostacoli del cuore" is a pop single by Italian singer Elisa, featuring pop rock Italian singer Ligabue, from her first greatest hits album, Soundtrack '96-'06. Released as the album's lead single, the song was written by Ligabue, and produced by Corrado Rustici.
"Canzone per te", written by Italian composer Sergio Endrigo and sung by Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos, was the Italian entrant to and winner of the 1968 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.
Paola Turci, is an Italian singer, songwriter, performer and author.
On is the ninth studio album by Italian singer and songwriter Elisa, released on 25 March 2016 by Sugar Music. It was produced by Elisa and features collaborations with Jack Savoretti, Emma Marrone and Giuliano Sangiorgi.
"Albachiara" is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi for his second studio album, Non siamo mica gli americani, and released as a single by Lotus Records on 25 May 1979. The song was produced by Alan Taylor and written by Vasco Rossi himself, although its lyrics are officially credited to both Rossi and Taylor.
"Se piovesse il tuo nome" is a song by Italian singer Elisa. It was written by singer-songwriter Calcutta, Vanni Casagrande and Dario Faini and produced by Elisa with Andrea Rigonat and Taketo Gohara.
"Rubini" is a song by Italian singer Mahmood, with featured vocals by Elisa.
"Ogni volta è così" is a song recorded by Italian singer Emma. It was released on 3 February 2023 through Universal Music Italy.
"A modo tuo" is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Elisa. it was released on 7 November 2014 as the sixth and final single from her eighth studio album, L'anima vola (2013).
"Parole dette male" is a song recorded by Italian singers Giorgia. The song was released on 9 February 2023 as the second single from her eleventh studio album Blu¹ through Sony Music.
