Posted July 7, 200619 yr http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Spagna.jpg Spagna (born Ivana Spagna, on 16 December 1956, in Verona, Italy), is an Italian singer and songwriter. Spagna started her career singing in English, and her first dance song "Easy Lady" (1986) was a hit throughout Europe. In 1987 she released her second successful hit, "Call Me". It ranked 1st in the European Top Chart, hit Number Two in the UK singles chart (and it is still the highest position ever achieved by an Italian singer in the UK), and made #13 in the Billboard Dance Chart. The same year her first album, featuring the two singles, was released. Dedicated To The Moon sold 500,000 copies, and won an international prize for having been the best-selling album on Compact Disc that year. After a dance-rock album, You Are My Energy, and one more minor hit in the UK chart ("Every Girl and Boy"), by 1990 Spagna, supported by Sony Music, moved to the USA. She lived in Santa Monica, working on her new disco-pop album No Way Out. This collection featured a song written by Diane Warren ("There's A Love"), and the two singles which released in the USA - "Love At First Sight" and "Only Words". In 1993 Spagna moved back to Europe again, and recorded Matter Of Time, featuring new eurodance rhythms and ballads. In 1995, after the release of her last European hit ("Lady Madonna") as a single, she started singing in her native Italian. She took part several times in the Sanremo Festival, the most important Italian song-contest, ranking 3rd with the song "Gente Come Noi", which became the biggest hit of the year in Italy. From that year onwards, Spagna released many successful albums sung in Italian, until 2003, when she left Sony Music in order to sing in English again. She joined an independent Swiss record label (B&G), and recorded Woman, a dance-pop album featuring eight new songs in English, a couple in Spanish and one in French. In 2004 a new remixed version of "Easy Lady" was released, and played by radio stations throughout Europe. Spagna's fourteen albums have sold a total of 10 million copies worldwide. In February 2006 she took part in the Sanremo song contest, with the song "Noi Non Possiamo Cambiare".
July 7, 200619 yr Number Two in the UK singles chart (and it is still the highest position ever achieved by an Italian singer in the UK) Joe Dolce - Shaddup You Face, not italian then?
July 7, 200619 yr Number Two in the UK singles chart (and it is still the highest position ever achieved by an Italian singer in the UK) Joe Dolce - Shaddup You Face, not italian then? I'm sure he was an Australian pretending to be Italian for the single.
July 7, 200619 yr I'm sure he was an Australian pretending to be Italian for the single. :o Thanks, I didn't know that.
July 7, 200619 yr cant abide spagna... joe dolce... the joe dolce music factory is american according to the guiness book..
July 8, 200619 yr Author joe dolce... the joe dolce music factory is american according to the guiness book.. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Joedolcesteps.jpg He's an Aussie artist, but he was born in Ohio in Painesville : in 1947 to Italian-American parents http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/OHMap-doton-Painesville.png
July 8, 200619 yr Author http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Spagna.jpg http://www.media.rai.it/mpmedia/0,,Sanremo^1405,00.html for her on the sanremo song contest
July 8, 200619 yr http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Joedolcesteps.jpg He's an Aussie artist, but he was born in Ohio in Painesville : in 1947 to Italian-American parents http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/OHMap-doton-Painesville.png if he was born in america then hes american <_<
July 9, 200619 yr Author if he was born in america then hes american <_< not so as of course you can take the nationality like Katie Melua and David Soul did here who have both British citizenship. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7a/Km1.jpg the British singer Katie Melua
July 9, 200619 yr Author http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Jack_Bauer_Close.JPG a British and Canadian actor
July 9, 200619 yr Author http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/JIMCARREY.jpg an American funny guy
July 11, 200619 yr Yeah, Joe Dolce lives in Australia. He was sent there on a ship with a bunch of convicts are hitting number one in the UK in 1981 :D As for Italian number one singers - what about Black Box? Ah, that was Loleatta / Aretha..... Sabrina? Where did she get with Boys (Summertime Love)?
July 12, 200619 yr Author Yeah, Joe Dolce lives in Australia. He was sent there on a ship with a bunch of convicts are hitting number one in the UK in 1981 :D As for Italian number one singers - what about Black Box? Ah, that was Loleatta / Aretha..... Sabrina? Where did she get with Boys (Summertime Love)? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Sabrina-Gringo-59801.jpg Sabrina Salerno (born on 15 March 1968) in Genoa, Italy is a popular Italian singer and also model, dancer and producer. She is also an actress who has appeared in a number of European TV series, movies and theatre. In 1989 she appeared in the film Fratelli d'Italia with Jerry Calà . On 2005 she won the best actress critics awards for the film "Colori" at the famous Italian Salerno´s Cinema Festival. She initially used the single-name credit Sabrina under which she had very popular hits in the late 1980s such as "Boys", "Hot Girl", "Sexy Girl", "Like a yoyo", "All of me" (Stock Aitken and Waterman) and "My Chico". For more recent recordings, she is now using her full name Sabrina Salerno and she had a lot of popular hits all over the world like "Maschio Dove Sei", "Fatta e rifatta", "Siamo Donne", "I Love you", "Rockawillie" and "Angel Boy". Sabrina has worked with famous music-producers: Giorgio Moroder, Stock Aitken & Waterman, Vasco Rossi, Massimo Riva, Joe Satriani(Satch), Dj Mori, Benny Bennassi, Morato, Orlando Johnson, D. Simon, Neal AD, Enrico Monti, Claudio Cecchetto... She performed live at the Montreux Pop Festival in 1988. Another famous performance was in 1989 at Olympic Stadium of Moscú where 50000 people gathered during 3 days to enjoy Sabrina´s shows & music. Sabrina was photographed naked in erotic magazines (such as appearing on the cover of the British magazine, Mayfair), and she is also known for her revealing music videos (her videos for "My Chico" and "Boys" were banned in some places as her breasts were accidentally exposed in each). She is now considered an erotic star, those photos and clips circulating in large quantities all over the Internet. At the height of her career, Sabrina entered into a well-publicized "feud" with UK topless model-turned-singer Samantha Fox. Magazines such as Playboy played up the "war of words" between the two over who was the sexier singer. There's no evidence to suggest that this was anything more than a publicity stunt. In 2001 Sabrina Salerno made a tour all around Italy with the successful musical "Emozioni", now Sabrina is focusing on her music career and she has recently (on 2005) released one new single "I Feel Love (Good sensation)" which is full of energy. Sabrina Salerno has sold more than 20 million records all over the world and she has received awards such as "The Best European Singer" in 1988.
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