Patrizia Laquidara
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Biography
Patrizia Laquidara was born in CataniaCatania
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...
, on the island of Sicily
Sicily
Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
. When she was very young her family moved to a small town in northern Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, region Veneto
Veneto
Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...
, province of Vicenza
Vicenza
Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...
, where she began studying music and playing in piano bars during weekends.
In 1998 she attended a course at CET music school, as composer and singer of popular music of Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
and Veneto
Veneto
Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...
. This school is run by the well known Mogol
Mogol
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, who wrote the texts of Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti
Lucio Battisti was an Italian singer-songwriter . He is considered to be one of the best-known and most influential musicians and authors in Italian pop/rock music history....
songs.
She is also interested in the music of many Mediterranean countries and in the music of central Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and balcanic region. She is often tours Italy with her group, the Hotel Rif.
In 1999 one of her songs, "Stella nascente" was included on an album titled "Canzoni per 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:...
e Mario Lavezzi", but her true love at the time was for Brazilian music. Her first solo album, in 2001, was in fact titled "Para você querido Caé
Para você querido Caé
Para você querido Caé is the first album released by the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara.It was published in 2001 by Velut Luna/Audio Records.It is dedicated to the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso and includes 16 songs of Brazilian music.-Tracks:...
" (For you, dear Caetano) and was dedicated to the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso , better known as Caetano Veloso, is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo which encompassed theatre, poetry and music in the 1960s,...
.
Just after this album, her song "Agisce", written with the collaboration of Bungaro, won the Città di Recanati prize for best music and interpretation.
In 2003 she participated in the Sanremo Festival
Festival della canzone italiana
The Festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo is a popular Italian song contest, held annually in the city of Sanremo, in Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs...
with the song "Lividi e fiori" and won the Mia Martini Critics Prize and the Alex Baroni prize for best interpretation.
The same year she released her second album, titled "Indirizzo portoghese
Indirizzo portoghese
Indirizzo portoghese is the second album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2003by Genius Records/Virgin Records. It includes 13 songs.-Tracks:# Mielato - 3.16 -...
" and sung its songs during the tour Indirizzo portoghese live.
At the same time she developed many other projects, collaborating with the pianist Debora Petrina
Debora Petrina
Debora Petrina is an Italian composer, pianist and singer.- Biography :She was born in Cittadella, in Province of Padua, and is now living in Padua, after moving to Fontaniva, Budapest and Venice....
or composing songs for the soundrack of the 2005 movie Manuale d'amore
Manuale d'amore
Manuale d'amore is a 2005 Italian blockbuster love comedy composed of four episodes. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, Manuale d'amore 2 – Capitoli successivi in 2007, and Manuale d'amore 3 in 2011.-Plot:...
, directed by Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi
Giovanni Veronesi is an Italian film screenwriter, actor and director. Born in Prato, he is the brother of the writer Sandro Veronesi....
. The song "Noite e luar", in Portuguese, became well known in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.
In 2006 she participated in the international festival of ethnical and contemporary music named "Suoni dell'altro mondo" (Sounds from another world) and also in the '"Premio Tenco".
In 2007 she released her third album, "Funambola
Funambola
Funambola is an album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2007 by Ponderosa Music&Art.It includes 13 songs and it is inspired by the French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who walked on a steel wire between the Twin Towers of New York.Tightrope walking has this time both a...
", produced by Arto Lindsay
Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan Lindsay is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He is a 1974 graduate of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida....
and Patrick Dillett. The album was dedicated to the tightrope walker Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit
Philippe Petit is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, on 7 August 1974...
, who walked on a steel wire between the towers of the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
.
She also received the "Gold Mask Prize" for Popular Music Singer from the Bologna Conservatory.
In 2008 she toured all around Italy with Funambola
Funambola
Funambola is an album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2007 by Ponderosa Music&Art.It includes 13 songs and it is inspired by the French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who walked on a steel wire between the Twin Towers of New York.Tightrope walking has this time both a...
and sang in a musical theatre piece by Massimo Carlotto.
She also performed with the pianist Alfonso Santimone, looking for electronic sonorities as well as rediscovering old Japanese songs, in this way showing all the eclecticism of her art.
She also sang in the show "Creuza de luna", a poetical and musical journey starting in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
and traveling to South America
South America
South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
and Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
.
She participated in Etnafest 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...
, sung during the Festivalguer of Alghero
Alghero
Alghero , is a town of about 44,000 inhabitants in Italy. It lies in the province of Sassari in northwestern Sardinia, next to the sea.-History:The area of today's Alghero has been settled since pre-historic times...
and at the Cagliari
Cagliari
Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, a region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name Casteddu literally means castle. It has about 156,000 inhabitants, or about 480,000 including the outlying townships : Elmas, Assemini, Capoterra, Selargius, Sestu, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu...
Expo.
Late in December, Patrizia presented a video from her song "Ziza", on a TV show on Rai Due.
During 2009 she participated on the show "Musica dei cieli" (Music of skies) and was part of a traditional Italian Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
songs concert in the big Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
Auditorium.
She also performed the song "Su li stiddi" at the "New Sicilian Song Festival" then went to Lisbon
Lisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
for the "Festa do Cinema Italiano", a film festival, where her song "Personaggio" was the cover.
She sung in three concerts, the most important being at the Cabaret Maxime.
She then flew to Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
, in Casablanca
Casablanca
Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...
, with the show "Popular music of the Mediterranean".
After coming back to Italy, she received the Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era.-Life:Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and...
prize, a part of "Magna Grecia Awards", with the following motivation: "The musical event, the balance between the high pichtes and the shades in the pronunciation of words, make her voice a unique melody, Patrizia Laquidara emphasizes old sonorities and enters the scene, barefoot, to leave her untold impressions in the intimate sactum of every heart, that opens with her to new rhythms".
Her song "Assenza" was then included in the album "Capo Verde terra d'amore vol. I", a compilation of songs of Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
musicians, sung by them and Italian singers. The proceeds of this album are given to the UN food program for children.
She participated in a show on the national television channel Rai Due, then flew to the United States for a July tour, with concerts in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, along with the Brazilian singer CéU
CéU
Céu , whose full name is Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil on April 17, 1980, into a musical family, her father being a composer, arranger and...
.
In October she sang in the Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
jazz club Blue Note and announced a new record.
She sang during the New Year's Eve concert in Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza.
Albums
- Para você querido CaéPara você querido CaéPara você querido Caé is the first album released by the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara.It was published in 2001 by Velut Luna/Audio Records.It is dedicated to the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso and includes 16 songs of Brazilian music.-Tracks:...
(Audio Records/Velut Luna - 2001) - Indirizzo portogheseIndirizzo portogheseIndirizzo portoghese is the second album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2003by Genius Records/Virgin Records. It includes 13 songs.-Tracks:# Mielato - 3.16 -...
(Genius Records/Virgin Music - 2003) - FunambolaFunambolaFunambola is an album of the Italian singer Patrizia Laquidara, released in 2007 by Ponderosa Music&Art.It includes 13 songs and it is inspired by the French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who walked on a steel wire between the Twin Towers of New York.Tightrope walking has this time both a...
(Ponderosa Music&Art - 2007) - Il Canto dell'Anguana (Indie Europe/Zoom - 2011)
Singles
- Agisce (2003)
- Lividi e fiori (2003)
- Per causa d'amore
- Indirizzo Portoghese
- Parlami d'amore, Mariù
- Le cose (2007)
- Personaggio (2008)
- Ziza (2008)
Compilations
- Stella nascente, in the album "Canzoni per Ornella Vanoni e Mario Lavezzi" (1999)
- Assenza, in the album "Capo Verde terra d'amore vol. I" (2009)