Virginio Simonelli

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Virginio Simonelli 2011 in Pavia
Simonelli performing live in 2011

Virginio Simonelli (born January 31, 1985 in Fondi , Province of Latina ), mostly simply Virginio , is an Italian pop singer and songwriter .

Career

Simonelli attended the private art school Nuova accademia di belle arti in Milan .

Simonelli first gained public fame when he took part in the Sanremo Festival in 2006 : He entered the newcomer category, but failed with Davvero in the first round. The singer then released his debut album Virginio on Mercury / Universal . In 2010 he appeared as a songwriter for Paola & Chiara and took part in the tenth season of the casting show Amici di Maria De Filippi at the end of the year . There he won in the singing category with a song written by Francesco Silvestri . The following release was the EP Finalmente . The next album Ovunque came out in 2012 , and Simonelli continued to work as a songwriter, for example for Francesca Michielin .

In 2013, Simonelli co-wrote the song Limpido , with which Laura Pausini and Kylie Minogue achieved a number one success in Italy . It was not until 2015 that he himself returned as a singer with the first English-language song Hercules ; a subsequent album is announced.

Discography

Albums and EPs

  • Virginio (2006)
year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2011 Final dues (EP) IT4th
gold
gold

(16 weeks)IT
Universal Music
Sales: + 30,000
2012 Ovunque IT12 (10 weeks)
IT
Universal Music

Songs

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
IT IT
2011 Davvero
Virginio 		IT92 (1 week)
IT
First published in 2006
A maggio cambio
finalmente 		IT70 (4 weeks)
IT
Ad occhi chiusi
Finalmente 		IT20 (4 weeks)
IT
Dolce Notte
Finalmente 		IT37 (1 week)
IT
Final elements Final
elements 		IT49 (1 week)
IT
2012 Alice (Elis)
Ovunque 		IT69 (1 week)
IT
  • Sale (2011)
  • La dipendenza (2012)
  • Hercules (2015)

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Massimiliano Longo: Virginio e il coraggio di aspettare… In: Allmusicitalia.it. Edizioni Molecola, October 1, 2015, accessed December 11, 2015 (Italian).
  2. ↑ Virginio albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed December 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Awards archive . Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana , accessed December 11, 2015 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI Singoli . Lulu , 2013, p. 157 .
Winner of Amici di Maria De Filippi


Dennis Fantina  (2002) • Giulia Ottonello  (2003) • Leon Cino (2004) • Antonino Spadaccino  (2005) • Ivan D'Andrea (2006) • Federico Angelucci  (2007) • Marco Carta  (2008) • Alessandra Amoroso  (2009) • Emma Marrone  (2010) • Virginio Simonelli , Denny Lodi (2011) • Gerardo Pulli , Giuseppe Giofrè (2012) • Moreno  (2013) • Deborah Iurato  (2014) • The Kolors  (2015) • Sergio Sylvestre  (2016) • Andreas Müller ( 2017) • Irama  (2018) • Alberto Urso  (2019)

personal data
SURNAME Simonelli, Virginio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Virginio (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pop singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Fondi , Province of Latina