Italian Pop Music and Songs

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

Browsing Posts published in September, 2009

Viola Valentino, stage name of Virginia Minnetti (born in 1949), worked as a photomodel before entering the music world. She married the popular Italian singer Riccardo Fogli in 1972, and ending up divorcing him in the early 90′s. Her trademark was her “whispering” singing tone and her sexy but sweet image style. Tweet

Eros Ramazzotti, as a special guest on the Italian TV show “Miss Italia 2009” performs live his latest success, the ballad “Controvento” (“Against the wind”), the 2nd single from his latest album “Ali e Radici”, recorded in Los Angeles, which sold already over a million copies around the world and it currently is Tweet

Peppino Gagliardi has been on the boards since 1963. His career began in Napoli, where he was born, with his group called “I Gagliardi” played on his own name. After partecipating to several Festival di Napoli and Sanremo Music Festival in the 60′s, he finds a consciousness of his own musical and performing creativity. Tweet

Anna Oxa (Bari, 1961), a popular Italian singer of Albanian father, is well-known for her several appearances in Sanremo Music Fastival. She won the contest twice, one in 1999, and the first time in this duet with Fausto Leali (1944), a top-notch pop-soul artist, Tweet

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