Carmen Consoli
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Carmen Consoli is an Italian singer-songwriter
. She has released 7 studio albums and 2 live albums.
Her next album, Confusa e felice, is the singer's most famous one. The album includes the song Confusa e felice, a huge success in Italy that made Carmen famous throughout Italy.
In the same year she started her first tour, after some appearances on TV programs. The album Confusa e felice sold more than 130,000 copies, becoming her first true success.
In autumn 1998 she released her third album, Mediamente isterica, a particular album representing different kind of female figures. This album did not receive the same success as her previous work, selling around 80,000 copies, but became a favourite amongst her fans.
In 2000 she took part in the Festival of Sanremo for the third time with the song In bianco e nero, when her fourth album Stato di necessità was released.
The album includes two of Carmen's greatest successes, songs Parole di burro and L'ultimo bacio, the last one becoming the official title track for the soundtrack of the film of the same name by Gabriele Muccino, starring Stefano Accorsi
and Giovanna Mezzogiorno
.
Stato di necessità became the most successful album of Carmen, selling more than 300,000 copies in a year. In that same year Carmen won two Italian Music Awards and the Nastro D’Argento Award at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily.
In 2001 she released her fist live album, called L'anfiteatro e la bambina impertinente. The album presents all Carmen's greatest hits rearranged with an orchestra of sixty elements with the help of director Paolo Buonvino.
A year later she released her fifth studio album, L'eccezione. The album debuted at number 1 in the Italian album charts, selling more than 200,000 copies.
2003 saw the release of her second live album, Un sorso in più - dal vivo a MTV Supersonic, published with the collaboration of MTV Italy
. The album was recorded at MTV's programm Supersonic the year before, when Carmen presented to the public L'eccezione.
In 2006 Eva contro Eva, her sixth studio album, was issued. Debuting at number 1, the album showed a new perspective of Carmen's music, this time full of traditional Sicilian sounds and ethnic influences, demonstrating her great diversity. The album contains collaborations with Goran Bregovic
and Angelique Kidjo
. After a series of concerts through Europe, Canada
and the USA Eva contro Eva was published in 2007 in The United States through Universal Latino.
In 2008 third album Mediamente isterica was celebrated through a "Deluxe Edition" and a new tour. Mediamente isterica - Deluxe Edition is the first official "Deluxe Edition" of an Italian artist. The same year she wrote the original soundtrack for the movie L'uomo che ama, directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi
and starring Monica Bellucci
, Pierfrancesco Favino
and Ksenia Rappoport.
Elettra, her seventh studio album, was released on October, 30th 2009, including first single Non molto lontano da qui and debuting at number 2 in the FIMI Italian Album Charts.
The album sold in Italy more than 60,000 copies gaining platinum status and won the Targa Tenco for the category "Album of the Year".
During her career she collaborated with many artists: Mario Venuti, Natalie Merchant
, Henri Salvador
, La Crus, Paola Turci
, Marina Rei, Max Gazzè, Franco Battiato
, Luca Madonia, Ornella Vanoni
, Ron
, Marco Di Mauro, Marco Parente, Lucio Dalla
, Goran Bregovic
and Angelique Kidjo
.
She has produced albums by La Camera Migliore, Agata Lo Certo and Lautari
through her label Due Parole, established in Catania
.
In November 2010 she released her first best of album, called Per niente stanca. The album was anticipated by the single Guarda l'alba, a collaboration with Tiziano Ferro
. The second new song AAA Cercasi was released as a single in January 2011.
In July 2011 she published her first video collection, which includes all her videos from 1996 to 2011 plus some extras.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
. She has released 7 studio albums and 2 live albums.
Life and biography
Consoli was born in Sicily, near the city of Catania, in the small town of San Giovanni La Punta. She started playing guitar at the age of fifteen and in 1996 she recorded her first album, Due Parole, including Amore di plastica, the song she presented during her first participation in the Festival of Sanremo.Her next album, Confusa e felice, is the singer's most famous one. The album includes the song Confusa e felice, a huge success in Italy that made Carmen famous throughout Italy.
In the same year she started her first tour, after some appearances on TV programs. The album Confusa e felice sold more than 130,000 copies, becoming her first true success.
In autumn 1998 she released her third album, Mediamente isterica, a particular album representing different kind of female figures. This album did not receive the same success as her previous work, selling around 80,000 copies, but became a favourite amongst her fans.
In 2000 she took part in the Festival of Sanremo for the third time with the song In bianco e nero, when her fourth album Stato di necessità was released.
The album includes two of Carmen's greatest successes, songs Parole di burro and L'ultimo bacio, the last one becoming the official title track for the soundtrack of the film of the same name by Gabriele Muccino, starring Stefano Accorsi
Stefano Accorsi
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor.-Early life and background:Accorsi was born in Bologna. He graduated from Bologna's Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to cinema....
and Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Giovanna Mezzogiorno is an Italian theatre and film actress.Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, November 9, 1974, daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set, conscious about acting. At first she wanted to become a ballerina and she...
.
Stato di necessità became the most successful album of Carmen, selling more than 300,000 copies in a year. In that same year Carmen won two Italian Music Awards and the Nastro D’Argento Award at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily.
In 2001 she released her fist live album, called L'anfiteatro e la bambina impertinente. The album presents all Carmen's greatest hits rearranged with an orchestra of sixty elements with the help of director Paolo Buonvino.
A year later she released her fifth studio album, L'eccezione. The album debuted at number 1 in the Italian album charts, selling more than 200,000 copies.
2003 saw the release of her second live album, Un sorso in più - dal vivo a MTV Supersonic, published with the collaboration of MTV Italy
MTV Italy
MTV Italy is the Italian speaking version of the popular 24 hour music and youth entertainment channel. Unlike its counterparts elsewhere in Europe, MTV Italia is a national channel available free-to-air on terrestrial television since September 1, 1997 and available on digital terrestrial...
. The album was recorded at MTV's programm Supersonic the year before, when Carmen presented to the public L'eccezione.
In 2006 Eva contro Eva, her sixth studio album, was issued. Debuting at number 1, the album showed a new perspective of Carmen's music, this time full of traditional Sicilian sounds and ethnic influences, demonstrating her great diversity. The album contains collaborations with Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
and Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has...
. After a series of concerts through Europe, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the USA Eva contro Eva was published in 2007 in The United States through Universal Latino.
In 2008 third album Mediamente isterica was celebrated through a "Deluxe Edition" and a new tour. Mediamente isterica - Deluxe Edition is the first official "Deluxe Edition" of an Italian artist. The same year she wrote the original soundtrack for the movie L'uomo che ama, directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi
Maria Sole Tognazzi
Maria Sole Tognazzi is an Italian film director.-Biography:She is the daughter of actor and director Ugo Tognazzi and actress Franca Bettoia...
and starring Monica Bellucci
Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and fashion model.-Early life:Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy as the only child of Luigi Bellucci, who was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Pakistan...
, Pierfrancesco Favino
Pierfrancesco Favino
Pierfrancesco Favino is an actor from Rome, Italy. He has appeared in 35 films and television series' since the early 1990s, including: L'ultimo bacio, Le chiavi di casa , La Sconosciuta or Saturno contro . Favino received the David di Donatello award in 2006 for his role in the film Romanzo...
and Ksenia Rappoport.
Elettra, her seventh studio album, was released on October, 30th 2009, including first single Non molto lontano da qui and debuting at number 2 in the FIMI Italian Album Charts.
The album sold in Italy more than 60,000 copies gaining platinum status and won the Targa Tenco for the category "Album of the Year".
During her career she collaborated with many artists: Mario Venuti, Natalie Merchant
Natalie Merchant
Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:...
, Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador was a French Caribbean singer.-Biography:Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Indian from the Caribbean, were both from Guadeloupe, French West Indies...
, La Crus, Paola Turci
Paola Turci
Her musical debut was 1986 at the Festival of Sanremo with the song the "Yesterday Man", written by Mario Castelnuovo and appearing on her first album Ragazza sola ragazza blu...
, Marina Rei, Max Gazzè, Franco Battiato
Franco Battiato
Francesco Battiato is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. Battiato's songs contain esoteric, philosophical and religious themes...
, Luca Madonia, Ornella Vanoni
Ornella Vanoni
Ornella Vanoni, OMRI is one of the most credited pop singers of Italy. She is known for her sophisticated pop style.-Artistic career:...
, Ron
Ron (singer)
Ron, byname of Rosalino Cellamare is an Italian singer-songwriter and musician.Born in Dorno, province of Pavia, he debuted under his true name at the 1970 edition of the Sanremo Festival, together with Nada...
, Marco Di Mauro, Marco Parente, Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla is a popular Italian singer-songwriter and musician. He also plays clarinet and keyboards.He is the composer of Caruso , which has been covered by numerous international artists...
, Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregovic
Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars.Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora...
and Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo
Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has...
.
She has produced albums by La Camera Migliore, Agata Lo Certo and Lautari
Lautari
The Romanian word Lăutar denotes a class of traditional musicians. Most often, and by tradition, Lăutari are members of a professional clan of Romani musicians , also called Ţigani lăutari. The term is derived from Lăută the name of a string instrument...
through her label Due Parole, established in Catania
Catania
Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse. It is the capital of the homonymous province, and with 298,957 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in Sicily and the tenth in Italy.Catania is known to have a seismic history and...
.
In November 2010 she released her first best of album, called Per niente stanca. The album was anticipated by the single Guarda l'alba, a collaboration with Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro
Tiziano Ferro is an Italian pop singer. He reached notoriety in 2001 and during his career he has also sung in Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.-Childhood and early beginnings:...
. The second new song AAA Cercasi was released as a single in January 2011.
In July 2011 she published her first video collection, which includes all her videos from 1996 to 2011 plus some extras.
Studio albums
- 1996 Due parole (15,000 copies)
- 1997 Confusa e felice #6 ITA (130,000 copies)
- 1998 Mediamente isterica #4 ITA (80,000 copies)
- 2000 Stato di necessità #8 (300,000 copies)
- 2002 L'eccezione #1 ITA (200,000 copies)
- 2006 Eva contro EvaEva contro EvaEva contro Eva is the sixth studio album by Italian singer-song-writer Carmen Consoli. It was released in Italy on May 12, 2006 and reached #1 in the FIMI Italian Album Chart, selling about 80,000 copies and gaining platinum status.Two singles are included, Signor Tentenna and Tutto su Eva.The...
#1 ITA #85 CH (80,000 copies) - 2008 Mediamente isterica - Deluxe Edition #22 ITA (11,000 copies)
- 2009 Elettra #2 ITA (80,000 copies)
Live albums
- 2001 L'anfiteatro e la bambina impertinente #7 ITA (200,000 copies)
- 2003 Un sorso in più - Dal vivo a MTV Supersonic #18 ITA
International Albums
- 2001 État de necessité - French version of Stato di necessità
- 2002/2003 Carmen Consoli - English version of L'Eccezione
- 2007 Eva contro Eva - Published in the USA by Universal Latino
Singles
- 1995 Quello che sento
- 1996 Amore di plastica
- 1996 Questa notte una lucciola illumina la mia finestra
- 1996 Lingua a sonagli
- 1997 Confusa e felice #3 ITA
- 1997 Venere
- 1997 Uguale a ieri
- 1998 Mai come ieri feat. Mario Venuti
- 1998 Bésame Giuda
- 1998 Puramente casuale
- 1999 Eco di sirene
- 1999 Autunno dolciastro
- 2000 In bianco e nero #10 ITA
- 2000 Parole di burro #4 ITA
- 2000 Orfeo
- 2001 L'ultimo bacio
- 2001 Gamine impertinente (France)
- 2002 L'eccezione #4 ITA
- 2003 Pioggia d'aprile
- 2003 April Showers (Germany and Spain)
- 2003 Fiori d'arancio
- 2006 Signor Tentenna
- 2006 Tutto su Eva
- 2009 Non molto lontano da qui
- 2010 Mandaci una cartolina
- 2010 A' Finestra
- 2010 Guarda l'alba #20 ITA
- 2011 AAA Cercasi #46 ITA
Dvd
- 2001 L'anfiteatro e la bambina impertinente
- 2008 Eva contro Eva #2 ITA
- 2011 Per niente stanca - Video Collection #7 ITA
Videos
- 1996 Amore di plastica
- 1996 Lingua a sonagli
- 1998 Mai come ieri feat. Mario Venuti
- 1998 Bésame Giuda
- 1999 Eco di sirene
- 1999 Autunno dolciastro
- 2000 Parole di burro
- 2001 L'ultimo bacio
- 2002 L'eccezione
- 2003 Pioggia d'aprile
- 2003 Fiori d'arancio
- 2006 Signor Tentenna
- 2006 Tutto su Eva
- 2009 Non molto lontano da qui
- 2010 Guarda l'alba
- 2011 AAA cercasi
External links
- Carmenconsoli.it, Official website