Raphael Gualazzi

Raphael Gualazzi (* 11. November 1981 in Urbino as Raffaele Gualazzi ) is an Italian singer and pianist.

Career

His debut album Love Outside the Window was released in 2005 on the Edel Music record label . Shortly after the release of his second album Reality and Fantasy in 2011, he won the newcomer category at the Sanremo Festival 2011 with his jazz song Follia d'amore ('Crazy Love'). With the piece - interpreted in English and Italian as Madness of Love - Gualazzi represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 . This was Italy's first contribution since 1997. Gualazzi finished second behind Ell and Nikki from Azerbaijan with 189 points.

After this success, Gualazzi's album Reality and Fantasy , from which Madness of Love originates, made it into the top 50 of the German album charts . He then toured Europe. His next album Happy Mistake was released in Germany in spring 2014.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		IT	DE	AT
2005	Love Outside The Window	IT44 (10 weeks) IT	-	-	Chart entry in IT only in 2011
2011	Reality and Fantasy	IT4th platinum (60 weeks)IT	DE49 (2 weeks) DE	AT53 (1 week) AT
2013	Happy mistake	IT5 gold (33 weeks)IT	-	-
2016	Love Life Peace	IT4th gold (21 weeks)IT	-	-
2020	Ho un piano	IT34 (2 weeks) IT	-	-

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		IT	AT	CH
2011	Follia d'amore Reality and Fantasy	IT8th gold (1 week)IT	-	-
	Madness of Love Reality and Fantasy	-	AT40 (1 week) AT	CH52 (1 week) CH
2014	Liberi o no	IT20 (1 week) IT	-	-	with The Bloody Beetroots
2016	L'estate di John Wayne Accidentally on Purpose - Sanremo's Festival 2014	IT43 platinum (3 weeks)IT	-	-
2020	Carioca Ho un piano	IT33 (2 weeks) IT	-	-

Web links

• official homepage
• Raphael Gualazzi at Discogs (English)
• Interview (Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin 2011)
• Raphael Gualazzi at eurovision.de

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1. ↑ Raphael Gualazzi swings for Italy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at rp-online.de 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: IT DE AT CH
3. ↑ ^{a b} Awards for Music Sales: IT