Jalisse

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Jalisse is an Italian pop duo best known for winning the 1997 Sanremo Festival and participating in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest .

History of the duo

Alessandra Drusian and Fabio Ricci met for the first time in 1990 at a record company in Rome. Drusian had won singing competitions and was invited to an appointment, Ricci had just released his first single with the group Vox Populi and introduced himself as a solo singer-songwriter . In 1992, on the occasion of a television show, they met again and decided to try musical ways together.

As Jalisse, launched in 1994, they took part in the 1996 Sanremo Festival . Their song Liberarmi went largely unnoticed, but the duo got the chance to participate in the main category at the 1997 festival . Participation in the 1997 festival should spur Jalisse's career: with the song Fiumi di parole , which they wrote themselves , they won over well-known musicians such as Patty Pravo , Nek , Al Bano and Anna Oxa . In the same year, the duo's debut album, Il cerchio magico del mondo , was released, and they have now also gone together privately. The Viña del Mar Festival in Chile and the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 (fourth place) made Jalisse known to an audience of millions.

From 1999 onwards, the two of them took a musical break to plan their families. Alessandra Drusian appeared again and again as an actress in various programs until she decided that the right time had come to tackle a new musical product: 6 desiderio , the single with which they reported back on the Italian music market. Another album by Jalisse was released in September 2006 under the title Siedi e ascolta , but it was largely a new edition of the debut album. After an unsuccessful application for the Sanremo Festival 2007, the duo released another album in 2009 with Linguaggio universale .

Discography (albums)

  • 1997 - Il cerchio magico del mondo
  • 2006 - Siedi e ascolta
  • 2009 - Linguaggio universale

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