Laura Pausini
Laura Alice Rossella Pausini (* 16th May 1974 in Faenza ) is an Italian pop - singer and Grammy -Preisträgerin.
life and career
Pausini became known to a wider audience when she won the newcomer category at the 1993 Sanremo Festival with the song La solitudine . A year later , she entered the main category and came third. She sings mostly in Italian , but also in English , Spanish and Portuguese . She has worked with Luciano Pavarotti , Andrea Bocelli , Michael Bublé , Ray Charles , Phil Collins , Kylie Minogue , James Blunt , Hélène Segara , Raf , Nek , Juanes and Gianna Nannini , among others .
Pausini has sold more than 70 million records. In addition to numerous gold album and 16 platinum album awards, she received a diamond album award. In addition, she received several music awards of international importance, including a World Music Award in 1994 and 2003. After she won a Latin Grammy in the category Best Female Pop Vocal Album in 2005 with her Spanish-language 2004 album Escucha , she was awarded the annual award in 2006 awarded a Grammy in the Best Latin Pop Album category. This made her the first female Italian citizen to ever receive a Grammy, which earned her the written congratulations of Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi .
In 2007 she performed in front of more than 70,000 spectators at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan . Laura Pausini Live - San Siro 2007 was released on CD in November . A year later the album Primavera appeared in Anticipo with previously unreleased songs; thanks to the title song sung in a duet with James Blunt, it was also noticed more in Germany than in previous years. In 2009 she completed a world tour. In this context she gave the only German concert in Dortmund in May 2009 . In November 2009 she released a selection of the live recordings on the CD / DVD album Laura Live - World Tour 09 . In the same year she acted - together with Elisa , Gianna Nannini , Giorgia and Fiorella Mannoia - as the organizer of the charity concert Amiche per l'Abruzzo , an event for the benefit of the earthquake victims in and around the town of L'Aquila in Abruzzo .
In November 2011 their eleventh album Inedito was released . As part of a world tour, she performed in May 2012 in Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, among others . At the end of 2013, on the occasion of their 20th stage anniversary, the greatest hits album 20 - The Greatest Hits was released . The first single from it is Limpido , which she recorded with Kylie Minogue. In 2014 Pausini was represented as a juror in the fourth season of the Mexican edition of The Voice ; a year later in the third season in their Spanish edition. Pausini is in a relationship with the Italian musician Paolo Carta , with whom she has a daughter who was born in 2013.
Discography
Individual evidence
Web links
- Laura Pausini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Laura Pausinis website (Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pausini, Laura |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pausini, Laura Alice Rossella (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian pop singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Faenza , Italy |