Italian Pop Music and Songs

Italian songs and singers from the 70s to the 2000s | Videos, trivia and lyrics!

Browsing Posts published in March, 2009

Matia Bazar is an Italian music group formed in 1975 in Genoa. “Matia” was the nickname of their first female singer, which in Genoa dialect means “Matta” (“Crazy”). They won twice the Sanremo Music Festival, in 1978 and in 2002, a feat that no other band has been able to achieve. The group went into …continue reading

“Almeno tu nell’universo” was written back in ’72, but since its lyrics were considered too ahead of their time, the song was taken out of the closet 17 years later and entrusted to Mia Martini‘s remarkable voice and class. Won the Critics’ Music Award in the Sanremo Music Festival and went up to #6 in …continue reading

Italian singer-songwriter Raf (real name Raffaele Riefoli, born in 1959) lived in London in the early 80′s, after studying architecture in Florence. In England he forms a punk-rock group called Cafe’ Caracas. When he meets the famous songwriter Giancarlo Bigazzi, his musical career takes a definitive turn. In 1984, he releases his first single “Self …continue reading

. Blond, lean and striking in appeareance Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli in Venice, 1948) whose career has spanned more than forty years, is an immensily popular Italian pop singer. In her youth years, she got acquainted with Ezra Pound and Pope John XXIII. Her first single in 1966. “Ragazzo triste”, was the first pop …continue reading

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