Spagna
Spagna (born December 16, 1956 in Valeggio sul Mincio , Province of Verona ; actually Ivana Spagna ) is an Italian pop singer and songwriter . She was very successful internationally in the late 1980s with several dance hits.
biography
Spagna began her career by participating in smaller singing competitions until she released her first single Mamy Blue for Dischi Ricordi in 1971 . She worked as a background singer, performed in discos with her brother Theo and wrote advertising jingles . Between 1983 and 1985 she was part of the duo Fun Fun and released other singles under the pseudonyms Mirage and Yvonne Kay . With the single Easy Lady , released in 1986 under her surname, she achieved a number one hit in Italy in 1986 and then a Europe-wide dance success. A year later she landed another hit with the single Call Me . It rose to number two in the UK and number 13 on Billboard magazine's dance chart in the United States . In the same year Spagna released her debut album Dedicated to the Moon .
After the release of Dance - rock - album You Are My Energy and a minor hit with the title Every Girl and Boy moved Spagna to the record company Sony , moved to the United States over and settled in Santa Monica down. There she produced her third album No Way Out , with which she turned back to disco- pop. After releasing a greatest hits album, she returned to Europe in 1993. In the same year she recorded the album Matter of Time . She had her last European hit in 1994 with Lady Madonna .
From then on Ivana Spagna only recorded new songs in her mother tongue. In 1995 she took part in the Festival di Sanremo for the first time: with the title Gente come noi she reached third place. Her first Italian-language album Siamo in due was subsequently released . Also in 1996 she was in Sanremo in the race, reaching te E io penso a fourth. In the next few years four more albums followed and further Sanremo participations in 1998 and 2000 . Only after separating from Sony Music in 2003 did Spagna return to its beginnings under the umbrella of the independent Swiss label B&G and release a dance-pop album sung in English.
She later appeared on Italian television in February 2006 as part of the Sanremo Festival (with Noi non possiamo cambiare she missed the final) and in May 2006 on the reality show Music Farm . In addition, the singer released other albums and songs in both Italian and English. In 2008 she supported Loredana Bertè at the Sanremo Festival and sang the duet Musica e parole with her . With quasi una confessione! Tutto quello che non ho mai detto , she published her first autobiography in 2011.
Since March 30, 2019 she has been an honorary citizen of Valeggio sul Mincio .
Discography
Albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IT | DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
1987 | Dedicated to the moon | - | - | - |
CH18 (4 weeks) CH |
- |
CBS
|
1991 | No way out |
IT10 (10 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Epic
|
1995 | Siamo in due |
IT4 (38 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Epic
|
1996 | Lupi solitari |
IT3 (35 weeks) IT |
- | - |
CH30 (8 weeks) CH |
- |
Epic
|
1997 | Indivisibili |
IT10 (22 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Epic
|
2000 | Domani |
IT32 (2 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Epic
|
2001 | La nostra canzone |
IT28 (11 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Epic
cover album |
2004 | L'arte di arrangiarsi |
IT60 (1 week) IT |
- | - | - | - |
B&G
|
2005 | Diario di bordo |
IT62 (2 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
NAR International
|
2006 | Voglio sdraiarmi al sole |
IT94 (1 week) IT |
- | - | - | - |
NAR International
New edition of Diario di bordo |
2009 | Ich liebe dich |
IT26 (3 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
with Loredana Bertè , as Lola & Angiolina Project
|
2012 | Four |
IT57 (1 week) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Soul Trade
|
More albums
- 1988: You Are My Energy
- 1993: Matter of Time
- 2002: Woman
- 2009: Il cerchio della vita
- 2010: Buon natale!
Compilations
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IT | DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
1998 | E che mai sarà - Le mie più belle canzoni |
IT23 (4 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Epic
|
2006 | Ivana Spagna |
IT97 (1 week) IT |
- | - | - | - |
RCA Italiana
|
|
|
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
IT | DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
1986 | Easy Lady Dedicated to the Moon |
IT1 (17 weeks) IT |
DE12 (15 weeks) DE |
AT30 (2 weeks) AT |
CH2 (13 weeks) CH |
UK62 (4 weeks) UK |
|
1987 | Call Me Dedicated to the Moon |
IT2 (22 weeks) IT |
DE10 (16 weeks) DE |
AT12 (6 weeks) AT |
CH7 (13 weeks) CH |
UK2 (14 weeks) UK |
|
Dance, Dance, Dance Dedicated to the Moon |
IT6 (11 weeks) IT |
DE27 (8 weeks) DE |
- |
CH22 (4 weeks) CH |
- | ||
1988 | Every Girl and Boy You Are My Energy |
IT4 (19 weeks) IT |
- | - |
CH18 (6 weeks) CH |
UK23 (8 weeks) UK |
|
I Wanna Be Your Wife You Are My Energy |
IT13 (12 weeks) IT |
- | - | - |
UK82 (4 weeks) UK |
||
1989 | This Generation You Are My Energy |
IT20 (4 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
1993 | Why Me? Matter of Time |
IT13 (6 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
1994 | Lady Madonna |
IT9 (8 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
Il cerchio della vita Siamo in due |
IT6 (10 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | ||
1995 | Gente come noi Siamo in due |
IT5 (7 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
2001 | Quella carezza della sera La nostra canzone |
IT49 (1 week) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
2002 | Never Say You Love Me Woman |
IT34 (2 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
2003 | Do It with Style Woman |
IT32 (1 week) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
2006 | Noi non possiamo cambiare Voglio sdraiarmi al sole |
IT25 (3 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - | |
2007 | Gli occhi verdi dell'amore |
IT26 (4 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Zeta Clan feat. Spagna
|
2008 | Musica e parole Musica e parole |
IT20 (2 weeks) IT |
- | - | - | - |
Loredana Bertè & Ivana Spagna
|
More singles
- 1971: Mamy Blue (as Ivana Spagna)
- 1972: Ari ari (as Ivana Spagna)
- 1987: Dedicated to the Moon
- 1987: Sarah
- 1996: Ci sarò
- 1996: E io penso a te
- 1997: Indivisibili
- 1998: E che mai sarà
- 2000: Mi amor
- 2000: Con il tuo nome
- 2009: Easy Lady (2009 remake)
- 2010: Call Me (2010 remake)
swell
- ↑ Spagna Call Me (Remix) Chart History. Billboard, accessed December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ [1]
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↑ a b Chart sources (albums):
- M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on July 3, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT until 1994).
- Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 170; 130 (IT 1995-2012).
- Albums by (Ivana) Spagna. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed July 3, 2016 (IT since 2000).
- Albums by (Ivana) Spagna. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on July 3, 2016 (CH).
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↑ Chart sources (singles):
- M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi, accessed on July 3, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT until 1996).
- Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 147, 160, 70 (IT 1997-2012).
- Singles from Spagna. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on July 3, 2016 (DE).
- Singles from (Ivana) Spagna. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed July 3, 2016 (AT).
- Singles from (Ivana) Spagna. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on July 3, 2016 (CH).
- Spagna. In: Officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company , accessed July 3, 2016 (UK).
Web links
- Official website
- Spagna at Allmusic (English)
- Ivana Spagna at Rockol.it (Italian)
- Spagna at Discogs (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Spagna |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spagna, Ivana (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian pop singer and songwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1956 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Valeggio sul Mincio , Province of Mantua |