Marisa Sannia (February 15, 1947 in Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy – April 14, 2008 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy) was an Italian singer from the island of Sardinia. She started her career with success in pop music in the sixties. 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, her native tongue.
Sannia died in Cagliari at the age of 61 on April 14, 2008.
Irene Grandi (born 6 December 1969) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
During her career she has sung in Spanish and has performed duets in German, French, Indian and in African languages, selling around 5 million records and earning 9 top-ten albums and 6 top-ten singles of which one number-one on the Italian music charts. She has participated five times at the Sanremo Music Festival gaining the podium in 2000. Grandi has performed for six times at the Festivalbar, conquering twice the platform and winning the Radio Awards. In the 2009 she has won a Wind Music Award, and in 2011 a Sanremo Hit Award.
Wilma Goich (Italian pronunciation: [ˈvilma ˈɡɔitʃ]; born 16 October 1945) is an Italian pop singer and television personality.
Irene Fornaciari (born 24 December 1983) is an Italian singer-songwriter.
She participated in the Sanremo Festival in 2009 in the category "New Proposals" but became famous in the 2010 participating, along with Nomadi, in the category "Artists" with the song Il mondo piange. She has released two albums, seven singles and a collection.
She is the daughter of Italian singer Zucchero.
Emanuela Trane (born 16 May 1977), stage name "Dolcenera" [ˌdoltʃeˈneːra], is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress.
She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy only in 2005, when she won the music-based reality show Music Farm and she released her second album, Un mondo perfetto. In 2005 she was also awarded Best New Artist of the Year at the Italian Meeting of Independent Record Labels and she received the De André Award for Best Emerging Artist.
Dolcenera participated again in the Sanremo Music Festival in 2006—when she sang the hit single "Com'è straordinaria la vita", included in the album Il popolo dei sogni—and in 2009, singing "Il mio amore unico", from her fourth studio set Dolcenera nel paese delle meraviglie, the first one released by a major label, Sony Music.
After signing with EMI, she released her fifth studio album in 2011, titled Evoluzione della specie. During the same year, she appeared on the Italian version of Professor Green's single "Read All About It (Tutto quello che devi sapere)", which was also included in the 2012 edition of Evoluzione della specie, released after Dolcenera's participation in the Sanremo Music Festival 2012 with "Ci vediamo a casa".
Arianna Martina Bergamaschi (born November 11, 1975), also known mononymously as Arianna, is an Italian singer, songwriter, stage actress and television presenter. She began her career when she was 7 years old, she started participating in numerous ad campaigns, and while still very young, participated in the TV shows "Fantastico 2" and "Fantastico 3", and in the 1989 Rai drama "I Promessi Sposi" (The Betrothed) and began studying dance with duo Brian and Garrison.
On February 1, 2013, Arianna released her hit single "Sexy People" which featured American rapper Pitbull.