Spagna

Spagna, 2016

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
year	title	IT	DE	AT	CH	UK	Remarks
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
year	title	IT	DE	AT	CH	UK	Remarks
1998	E che mai sarà - Le mie più belle canzoni	IT23 (4 weeks) IT	-	-	-	-	Epic
2006	Ivana Spagna	IT97 (1 week) IT	-	-	-	-	RCA Italiana

1991: Greatest Hits
1997: Dance Collection
1997: Ballads
1998: E che mai sarà
2004: Le sue più belle canzoni (2 CDs)
2005: Flashback Collection (3 CDs)

2006: I grandi successi (3 CDs)
2006: Superissimi gli eroi del Juke Box
2007: Le più belle di
2011: Greatest Hits
2011: Semplicemente veneta
2014: Remember Easy Hits

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	IT	DE	AT	CH	UK	Remarks
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
1987	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
1988	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	-	-	-	-
1994	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)

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↑ Spagna Call Me (Remix) Chart History. Billboard, accessed December 11, 2018 .
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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
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

[1] Spagna Call Me (Remix) Chart History. Billboard, accessed December 11, 2018 .

[2] [1]

[Albumcharts-3] 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).

[4] M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi , accessed on July 3, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT until 1994).

[5] Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 170; 130 (IT 1995-2012).

[6] Albums by (Ivana) Spagna. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed July 3, 2016 (IT since 2000).

[7] Albums by (Ivana) Spagna. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on July 3, 2016 (CH).

[Singlecharts-4] 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).

[9] M&D chart archive. Musica e dischi, accessed on July 3, 2016 (Italian, paid subscription access; IT until 1996).

[10] Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu, 2013, p. 147, 160, 70 (IT 1997-2012).

[11] Singles from Spagna. In: Official German charts. GfK Entertainment , accessed on July 3, 2016 (DE).

[12] Singles from (Ivana) Spagna. In: Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien, accessed July 3, 2016 (AT).

[13] Singles from (Ivana) Spagna. In: Hitparade.ch. Hung Medien, accessed on July 3, 2016 (CH).

[14] Spagna. In: Officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company , accessed July 3, 2016 (UK).