Spagna (born
Ivana Spagna, 16 December 1956,
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,
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) is an
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and
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.
She started her career singing in
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and in the early 1980s she provided
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(with Angela Parisi) and wrote
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s for an Italo Disco
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project called
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; as well as writing songs for many other dance music projects until 1986, when she embarked on a
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career.
Her first
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song "
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
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throughout
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.
Spagna (born
Ivana Spagna, 16 December 1956,
VeronaVerona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient...
,
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) is an
ItalianThe Italian people are an ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common Italian culture, descent, and speaking the Italian language as a mother tongue...
singerSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist...
and
songwriterA songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics, as well as the musical composition or melody to songs. One who writes only lyrics is a lyricist, while one who writes only music is a composer.-History and background of songwriters:...
.
Career
She started her career singing in
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and in the early 1980s she provided
vocalsThe human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary sound source...
(with Angela Parisi) and wrote
songA song is a metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad....
s for an Italo Disco
duoA duet is a musical composition or piece 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...
project called
Fun FunFun Fun were a popular synth pop duo of the 1980s. Their hits included "Colour My Love" and "Happy Station".The Fun Fun are Francesca Merola and Roberta Servelli...
; as well as writing songs for many other dance music projects until 1986, when she embarked on a
soloIn music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...
career.
Her first
danceThis article is about dance music in general. You may also be looking for electronic dance music or dance-pop.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" 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
hitA hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings...
throughout
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. In 1987 she released her third hit, "
Call Me"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 of European countries. The video for the song was filmed in and around Nottingham...
". The
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made no.1 in the European Chart, and reached no.2 in Italy and in the
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. It also made no.13 in the
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.
Her first
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,
Dedicated To The Moon, was released the same year and sold over 500,000 copies.
After the minor
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hit "Every Girl And Boy" and a dance-
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album,
You Are My Energy (1988), Spagna moved to
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,
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, and created her new pop album
No Way Out (1991). This album featured a song written by
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("There's A Love"), the two singles "Love At First Sight" and "Only Words", peaked at #5 on the Italian chart, and was certified Platinum (over 100.000 copies sold).
In 1993, Spagna moved back to
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, and recorded
Matter Of Time, featuring the two successful
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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
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. After achieving a great success in Italy with the Italian version of Elton John's
Circle of Life (
Il cerchio della vita), featured in the Italian soundtrack of the Disney film
The Lion King, 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
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(B&G), and recorded
Woman, a dance-pop album featuring eight new songs in
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, two in
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and one in
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. The album spawned the three singles
Never Say You Love Me,
Woman and
Do It With Style. In 2004 a new
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ed version of "Easy Lady" was released.
Spagna's albums and singles have sold a total of over 10 millions 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
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,
Music Farm.
In February 2009 the new EP
Lola & Angiolina Project, in collaboration with the Italian rockstar
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, was released: the first single has been the rock
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Comunque vada.
Discography
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- Dedicated To The Moon (1987, English)
- Call Me
"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 of European countries. The video for the song was filmed in and around Nottingham...
- Sarah
- Dedicated To The Moon
- So Easy
- The Power Of Money
- 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...
- Dance Dance Dance
- Why Can't I Say (I Love You Babe)
- Baby Blue
- Girl It's Not The End Of The World
- You Are My Energy (1988, English)
- I Wanna Be Your Wife
- This Generation (IIII)
- Let Me (Say I Love You)
- Friday
- Me And You
- You Are My Energy
- Why Don't We Talk Anymore?
- Every Girl & Boy
- Don't Call It Love
- Woman In Love
- March 10, 1959 (Memories Of The Taste Of Freedom)
- No Way Out (1991, English)
- Only Words
- You Break Into My Heart
- No Way Out
- Love At First Sight
- Me And My Love
- I Don't Wanna Fall In Love
- There's A Love
- Number One
- I Miss You
- I Only Dance With You
- Spagna & Spagna: Greatest Hits (1993, English - compilation)
- Easy Lady
- Call Me
- Dance Dance Dance
- Every Girl And Boy
- I Wanna Be Your Wife
- This Generation
- Love At First Sight
- Dedicated To The Moon
- You Are My Energy
- Let Me Say (I Love You)
- Me And You
- Only Words
- No Way Out
- No More Words
- Matter Of Time (1993, English)
- If I Listened To My Heart
- Why Me
- You'll Be Mine
- Don't Go Away Tonight
- Why Are You Leaving Me
- If You Really Love Me
- I Always Dream About You
- Matter Of Time
- You & I
- I'll Walk Away
- I'll Keep Loving You
- Siamo In Due (1995, Italian)
- Davanti agli occhi miei
- Siamo in due
- Mai
- Chiamami
- Come il cielo
- Il cerchio della vita
- Gente come noi
- A pugni chiusi
- Uno come te
- Un natale che non finira'
- Lupi Solitari (1996, Italian)
- Colpa del sole
- Ti amo
- E io penso a te
- Ci sarò
- Come l'alba
- Lupi solitari
- Un amico
- Se perdo te
- Se ti rivedrò
- Arriverà
- Indivisibili (1997, Italian)
- Indivisibili
- Una razione d'amore
- Dov'eri
- Fuori dal normale
- Immaginarti qui
- Cipolle e fragole
- Tomiamo insieme
- Ogni giomo di più
- Quello che voglio
- Sarà
- Ghost Track: Mercedes Benz
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- E che mai sarà: le mie più belle canzoni (1998, Italian - compilation)
E che mai sarà
Ill bello della vita - world cup song
Gente come noi
Siamo in due
Davanti agli occhi miei
Come il cielo
E io penso a te
Lupi solitari
Colpa del sole
Ti amo
Indivisibili
Dov'eri
Lay da da
Se fosse vero amore
Mi sto innamorando
Gloria
Con il tuo nome
Un po' d'amore
Aspettavo te
Acqua
Mi amor
Domani
Anime sole
Messages of love
Anche un momento (è tanto se tu ci sei)
Al sole
L'ora dei ricordi
Claire de lune
- La nostra canzone (2001, Italian)
Teorema
Eloise
Il nostro concerto
Ho difeso il mio amore
Dicitencello vuje
Quella carezza della sera
Never alone
Bang bang
La donna cannone
De en jour
Woman
Never Say You Love Me
A Day Without You
Tears Of Love (Rain And Tears 2002)
Baila
Màs Allà Del Cielo Azul
Lady In Black
Comme C'Est Bizarre La Vie
Do It With Style
A New Day
Rain And Tears
- L'arte di arrangiarsi (2004, Italian)
Sound of silence
Dopotutto ti amo
Dove nasce il sole
Gente como tu
Ti amo
Easy lady (reggae version)
Rock your baby
Call me
Al di là (del cielo blu)
Davanti agli occhi miei
Come il cielo
- Diario Di Bordo (2005, Italian)
Prova d'amore
A chi dice no
Anche solo per un istante
Day by day
Diario di bordo
Greta
Donna Invisibile
Come un raggio di sole
- Diario di bordo - Voglio sdraiarmi al sole' (2006, Italian)
Noi non possiamo cambiare
Vorrei fossi tu
Voglio sdraiarmi al sole
Prova d'amore
A chi dice no
Anche solo per un istante
Day by day
Diario di bordo
Greta
Donna Invisibile
Come un raggio di sole |
- Lola6Angiolina project ' (2009, Italian, with Loredana Bertè)
Comunque vada (Spagna feat. L.Berté & Aida Cooper)
enrico 40(Loredana Berté)
I love you (Spagna)
Father (Spagna)
Musica e parole (Loredana Berté’)
Belladonna (Loredana Berté)