Romina Arena
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Romina Arena is an Italian-American
Popera / Operatic pop
/Pop Classical Crossover singer songwriter
. She was born May 12, 1980 and grew up in Palermo
Sicily
and now lives in Los Angeles
California
. She has collectively sold over four million records worldwide over the life of her career.
in the major Italian Theatres at the age of seven. Her powerful knowledge of 10 languages, including Italian
, English
, French
, Spanish
, German
, Portuguese
, Japanese
, Greek
, Bulgarian
and Hebrew that allowed her to open many doors to the international music market. Oscar winning film composer Ennio Morricone
has always been Romina's mentor, since she was twelve years old. In fact, she was the first female Italian artist and songwriter, to add lyrics to Morricone's famous "ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA"movie theme. She is considered the female version of Josh Groban
and her music is compared to the music of Andrea Bocelli
, Enya
with a Barbra Streisand
flavour. Romina fell victim to a terrible tragedy, when still at a young age, was attacked at the backstage of a prime time television show in Sicily and her attacker severed her vocal chords with a pocket knife, leaving her comatose. Her physicians told her she would never sing again. However, she completely recovered over a three-year period to become an International star. Not only did she fully regain her vocal abilities; a strange side effect of the attack was that she developed an extraordinary five-octave vocal range as a result of the trauma to her pharynx
.
A two time Academy Award-winning film producer is currently developing her life story into a major motion picture. Her book will also soon be available in stores. Romina is also a sought after inspirational and motivational speaker, an incredible screenwriter and a well known philanthropist and humanitarian. Romina has received the prestigious Gold Orb Medal, presented to her by The Olympic Games of The Arts where she was equally awarded along with Hollywood legend Jane Russell
. She has performed for Bo Derek
, Paris Hilton
, Fergie, Josh Duhamel
, Betty White
, Al Pacino
, Oliver Stone
, Jack Canfield
, Cheryl Ladd
, President Clinton, Pope John Paul II
and many other popular figures. Romina was awarded with the most powerful award of all, the GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AWARD from the United Nations, in collaboration with Orphans International and The New York Times and Prince Albert of Monaco for her endless humanitarian support to the children of Haiti. She has appeared as the leading singer special guest on her first national PBS TV special, along with acclaimed pianist Jim Wilson. Romina is the recipient of the 2010 "THE TRICOLOR GLOBE AWARD" the equivalent to the American Oscar in Italy, for best female Italian artist in the world and as a humanitarian. In September 2010, Romina performed for over 300 million viewers on European Television Rai 1, Rai Italia
, Rai Radio 1. Canale 5
, a popular Italian network owned by Silvio Berlusconi
, is currently preparing a TV special on her life and career with major Italian journalist Alberto D'Amico.
Romina has a tremendous support not only from her American following fan base, but as well from a multi cultural fanbase including the Armenia, Hispanic, Greek and Russian community.
Romina is the recipient of the 2010 CSNA Award (Confederation of the Sicilians in North America),as the most successful Sicilian-Italian female Artist and Humanitarian in North America
Romina is one of the first female pioneers of Popera / Operatic pop
/Pop Classical Crossover, considered by the media as the "Queen of Popera". She wrote lyrics and sang Adagio in G minor
with the original Tomaso Albinoni
’s arrangement at the famous Sidney Opera House concert in 1994. In 2001, she covered the famous Japanese classic song “Subaru” originally written and recorded by Japanese star Shinji Tanimura
and went to number #1 on the charts. Romina not only remains to this day as one of the most prominent female Popera/Pop Classical Crossover singers in the world, but has become the trusted authority in the field of Popera and classical crossover. Her talents as a singer, songwriter, voiceover, actress, composer
, writer
, music producer,author, speaker, brand creator, screenwriter,linguist, dancer, chef and film producer
have captured the attention of Hollywood as she is developing several TV series ad film projects she has written and pitched to major studios and networks.
Over the years Romina has worked with a variety of major multi Grammy winning music producers which include Bob Johnston
, Chuck Howard, Christopher Page, Jamie Nakamura, Kevin Savigar, Peter Ciani, Mitchell Sigman from Berlin (band)
, Rudolf Schenker
from Scorpions (band)
and Beppe Cantarelli. She has collaborated and written songs with Freddy Curci
, Lara Cody
, Christopher Page, Kevin Savigar, Stacy Wiedleitz, Jamie Nakamura, Giovanni Lodigiani, Tom DeLuca, Jim Wilson, Bob Dellaposta, Luca Angelosanti, Francesco Morettini, and Beppe Cantarelli. She has also recorded under the names Romy Karen & Romina Notabartolo.
Romina continues to write music for film soundtracks
including for the up and coming movie "LUCA & LUCIA" to be released in 2011 by Cleopatra films, as well as several other TV shows. In 2003, Romina contributed her first Rock Opera
single “Satellite” (Recorded in English and Italian) as the theme song
for Project Gotham Racing 2
a popular video game
developed by Microsoft
. Romina is currently writing songs for UK's little superstar soprano, finalist from Britain's Got Talent
, Hollie Steel
and super tenor, heir to Pavarotti, Metropolitan opera House in New York 's very own Marcello Giordani
.
, Alessandro Safina
, Mario Frangoulis
, Lou Rawls
, Brian Wilson
of the Beach Boys
, Al Martino
, Gladys Knight
, Eliot Sloan from Blessid Union of Souls
, Eric Rigler
pipes player from the famous music soundtracks of the movies Braveheart
and Titanic 1997 film, and headlined on the Celine Dion
stageThe Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
.
Over the length of Romina’s career she has built a solid touring history by performing several countries worldwide including Italy
, Germany
, Spain
, France
, Belgium
, Luxembourg
, Austria
, England
, Portugal
, Gibraltar
, Casablanca
, Netherlands
, Japan
, Australia
, Singapore
, Thailand
, New Zealand
and Fiji
. She also performed many cities in the United States
including Boston MA, Chicago
IL, Cleveland OH, Youngstown
OH, Canton OH
, Akron
OH, Columbus OH, Cincinnati OH, Traverse City MI, New York City
, Orlando FL, Ft. Lauderdale FL, Miami FL, San Antonio TX, Los Angeles
CA, Amarillo TX, Milwaukee WI, Boise ID, Denver CO, Las Vegas NV, Reno NV, Washington DC, and Vancouver BC, Canada
.
She has performed in some of the most prestige’s venues in the world. The Sidney Opera House in Sydney
Australia
, St. Peter's Basilica
Vatican City
in Rome
Italy
, The Whitehouse in Washington DC, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
in Denver CO, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace The Bellagio and The Paris Las Vegas
in Las Vegas
and the Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C. to name a few.
Italian American
An Italian American , is an American of Italian ancestry. The designation may also refer to someone possessing Italian and American dual citizenship...
Popera / Operatic pop
Operatic pop
Operatic pop, pop opera or popera is a subgenre of pop music that is performed in an operatic style, or a song, theme or motif from classical music stylized as pop. The term popera and adjectives poperatic and popical are used by some media editors and music reviewers...
/Pop Classical Crossover singer songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
. She was born May 12, 1980 and grew up in Palermo
Palermo
Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
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,...
and now lives in 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...
California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. She has collectively sold over four million records worldwide over the life of her career.
Biography
By the age of four, Romina became an Italian Mouseketeer for the Italian Version of Disney's Topolino. She also performed as a classical ballerinaBallerina
A ballerina is a title used to describe a principal female professional ballet dancer in a large company; the male equivalent to this title is danseur or ballerino...
in the major Italian Theatres at the age of seven. Her powerful knowledge of 10 languages, including Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
, Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
, Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
, Bulgarian
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
and Hebrew that allowed her to open many doors to the international music market. Oscar winning film composer Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
has always been Romina's mentor, since she was twelve years old. In fact, she was the first female Italian artist and songwriter, to add lyrics to Morricone's famous "ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA"movie theme. She is considered the female version of Josh Groban
Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer. His four solo albums have been certified at least multi-platinum, and in 2007, he was charted as the number-one best selling artist in the United States with over 21 million records in that country...
and her music is compared to the music of Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
, Enya
Enya
Enya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
with a Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy,...
flavour. Romina fell victim to a terrible tragedy, when still at a young age, was attacked at the backstage of a prime time television show in Sicily and her attacker severed her vocal chords with a pocket knife, leaving her comatose. Her physicians told her she would never sing again. However, she completely recovered over a three-year period to become an International star. Not only did she fully regain her vocal abilities; a strange side effect of the attack was that she developed an extraordinary five-octave vocal range as a result of the trauma to her pharynx
Pharynx
The human pharynx is the part of the throat situated immediately posterior to the mouth and nasal cavity, and anterior to the esophagus and larynx. The human pharynx is conventionally divided into three sections: the nasopharynx , the oropharynx , and the laryngopharynx...
.
A two time Academy Award-winning film producer is currently developing her life story into a major motion picture. Her book will also soon be available in stores. Romina is also a sought after inspirational and motivational speaker, an incredible screenwriter and a well known philanthropist and humanitarian. Romina has received the prestigious Gold Orb Medal, presented to her by The Olympic Games of The Arts where she was equally awarded along with Hollywood legend Jane Russell
Jane Russell
Jane Russell was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s....
. She has performed for Bo Derek
Bo Derek
Mary Cathleen Collins , better known as Bo Derek, is an American film and television actress, model, and sex symbol, known for her role as Jenny Hanley in the 1979 comedy film 10. However, Derek's film career soon faltered; her later films, including, Bolero and Ghosts Can't Do It , were poorly...
, Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American businesswoman, heiress, and socialite. She is a great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton . Hilton is known for her controversial participation in a sex tape in 2003, and appearance on the television series The Simple Life alongside fellow socialite and childhood...
, Fergie, Josh Duhamel
Josh Duhamel
Joshua David "Josh" Duhamel is an American actor and former fashion model. He first achieved acting success in 1999 as Leo du Pres on ABC's All My Children and later as the chief of security, Danny McCoy, on NBC's Las Vegas...
, Betty White
Betty White
Betty White Ludden , better known as Betty White, is an American actress, comedienne, singer, author, and former game show personality. With a career spanning seven decades since 1939, she is best known to modern audiences for her television roles as Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and...
, Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in Dick Tracy and Carlito Brigante in Carlito's Way, though he has also appeared...
, Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
, Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield
Jack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, which currently has nearly 200 titles and 112 million copies in print in over 40 languages...
, Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd is an American actress, singer and author. Ladd is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the television series Charlie's Angels, hired amid a swirl of publicity prior to its second season in 1977 to replace the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors...
, President Clinton, Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...
and many other popular figures. Romina was awarded with the most powerful award of all, the GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AWARD from the United Nations, in collaboration with Orphans International and The New York Times and Prince Albert of Monaco for her endless humanitarian support to the children of Haiti. She has appeared as the leading singer special guest on her first national PBS TV special, along with acclaimed pianist Jim Wilson. Romina is the recipient of the 2010 "THE TRICOLOR GLOBE AWARD" the equivalent to the American Oscar in Italy, for best female Italian artist in the world and as a humanitarian. In September 2010, Romina performed for over 300 million viewers on European Television Rai 1, Rai Italia
Rai Italia
Rai Italia is the international television service of Rai Internazionale, a subsidiary of RAI, Italy's public national broadcaster. Rai Italia operates a television network that broadcasts around the world via 3 localized feeds...
, Rai Radio 1. Canale 5
Canale 5
Canale 5 is an Italian private television network of Mediaset, the media branch of Fininvest. Canale 5 was the first private television network to have a national coverage in Italy in 1980, based on a local channel, TeleMilano 58, founded in 1978....
, a popular Italian network owned by Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...
, is currently preparing a TV special on her life and career with major Italian journalist Alberto D'Amico.
Romina has a tremendous support not only from her American following fan base, but as well from a multi cultural fanbase including the Armenia, Hispanic, Greek and Russian community.
Romina is the recipient of the 2010 CSNA Award (Confederation of the Sicilians in North America),as the most successful Sicilian-Italian female Artist and Humanitarian in North America
Romina is one of the first female pioneers of Popera / Operatic pop
Operatic pop
Operatic pop, pop opera or popera is a subgenre of pop music that is performed in an operatic style, or a song, theme or motif from classical music stylized as pop. The term popera and adjectives poperatic and popical are used by some media editors and music reviewers...
/Pop Classical Crossover, considered by the media as the "Queen of Popera". She wrote lyrics and sang Adagio in G minor
Adagio in G minor
The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings and organ continuo, is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto and based on the disputed discovery of a...
with the original Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
’s arrangement at the famous Sidney Opera House concert in 1994. In 2001, she covered the famous Japanese classic song “Subaru” originally written and recorded by Japanese star Shinji Tanimura
Shinji Tanimura
is a Japanese singer and songwriter.- Biography :In 1971, Tanimura set up the musical group, Alice, along with Takao Horiuchi, and in 1972 produced his first extended play musical album. Two years later, they produced their first album from the musical group...
and went to number #1 on the charts. Romina not only remains to this day as one of the most prominent female Popera/Pop Classical Crossover singers in the world, but has become the trusted authority in the field of Popera and classical crossover. Her talents as a singer, songwriter, voiceover, actress, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, music producer,author, speaker, brand creator, screenwriter,linguist, dancer, chef and film producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
have captured the attention of Hollywood as she is developing several TV series ad film projects she has written and pitched to major studios and networks.
Over the years Romina has worked with a variety of major multi Grammy winning music producers which include Bob Johnston
Bob Johnston
Donald William Robert 'Bob' Johnston is a noted American record producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson and many Nashville recording artists, as well as Simon and Garfunkel.-Early days:Johnston was born into a professional musical family...
, Chuck Howard, Christopher Page, Jamie Nakamura, Kevin Savigar, Peter Ciani, Mitchell Sigman from Berlin (band)
Berlin (band)
Berlin is an American New Wave/Synthpop band. The group was formed in Los Angeles in 1978 by John Crawford . The band contained Crawford, Terri Nunn , David Diamond , Ric Olsen , Matt Reid and Rod Learned . Learned left during the first EU tour and was replaced by Rob Brill...
, Rudolf Schenker
Rudolf Schenker
Rudolf Schenker is a German guitarist and founding member of heavy metal band Scorpions, being the rhythm/lead guitarist and one of the main song-writers of the band...
from Scorpions (band)
Scorpions (band)
Scorpions are a heavy metal/hard rock band from Hannover, Germany, formed in 1965 by guitarist Rudolf Schenker, who is the band's only constant member. They are known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and many singles, such as "No One Like You", "Send Me an Angel", "Still...
and Beppe Cantarelli. She has collaborated and written songs with Freddy Curci
Freddy Curci
Freddy Curci is a Canadian AOR rock vocalist and songwriter best known for his stints in Alias and Sheriff.Curci has a multi-octave vocal range and holds the Guinness World Record for Longest Note Held in a pop song, for 30 seconds, timed and submitted by University of Houston, for the ending note...
, Lara Cody
Lara Cody
Laura Ann Cody , better known as Lara Cody, is an American voice actress. She also goes under the name "Deanna Morris." She is best known for her role for playing "Rosemary" in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots.-Anime:*A Little Snow Fairy Sugar -...
, Christopher Page, Kevin Savigar, Stacy Wiedleitz, Jamie Nakamura, Giovanni Lodigiani, Tom DeLuca, Jim Wilson, Bob Dellaposta, Luca Angelosanti, Francesco Morettini, and Beppe Cantarelli. She has also recorded under the names Romy Karen & Romina Notabartolo.
Romina continues to write music for film soundtracks
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
including for the up and coming movie "LUCA & LUCIA" to be released in 2011 by Cleopatra films, as well as several other TV shows. In 2003, Romina contributed her first Rock Opera
Rock opera
A rock opera is a work of rock music that presents a storyline told over multiple parts, songs or sections in the manner of opera. A rock opera differs from a conventional rock album, which usually includes songs that are not unified by a common theme or narrative. More recent developments include...
single “Satellite” (Recorded in English and Italian) as the theme song
Theme music
Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits...
for Project Gotham Racing 2
Project Gotham Racing 2
Project Gotham Racing 2 is a racing game for the Xbox, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft. PGR2 is the sequel to the highly successful Project Gotham Racing. It is the second title in the Project Gotham Racing series.As in PGR, the route to advancement in PGR2 differs from...
a popular video game
Computer and video games
A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of...
developed by Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
. Romina is currently writing songs for UK's little superstar soprano, finalist from Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
, Hollie Steel
Hollie Steel
Hollie Steel is a singer and performer from Huncoat, Lancashire, England. At the age of ten she was one of ten finalists on the third series of the ITV reality show Britain's Got Talent....
and super tenor, heir to Pavarotti, Metropolitan opera House in New York 's very own Marcello Giordani
Marcello Giordani
Marcello Giordani is an Italian operatic tenor who has sung leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States. He has had a distinguished association with the New York Metropolitan Opera, where he has sung in over 170 performances since his debut there in 1993...
.
Some of Romina’s notable accomplishments include
- Four number #1 singles in four different countries:
- Italy (“Una Vita Senza Vita” from San Remo Nuovi Talenti 1994 Compilation)
- Australia (“As Beautiful as You”) CP Productions/BMGBMGBertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
- Germany (“As Beautiful as You”) CP Productions/BMGBMGBertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
- Japan (“Subaru”) Design House/Toshiba-EMIToshiba-EMI(formerly , is one of Japan's leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30, 2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake. The current CEO and president is San-e Ichii. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was...
- Finalist at the San Remo Nuovi Talenti 1994 contest (New Talent)
- Sold over four million records worldwide (collectively over lifetime)
- Received a lifetime achievement Gold RecordMusic recording sales certificationMusic recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
from RAI International in Italy for her contributions to the music industry in EuropeEuropeEurope 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... - Received one of Italy’s highest honors on September 18, 2010 “The Tricolor Globe Award” the equivalent to the American Oscars in stature
- Recipient of the "CSNA Award" November 13, 2010 from the “Confederation of the Sicilians of North America” for best female Italian artist in North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
- Will be the recipient of the prestigious "PREMIO SICILIA AWARD" in Sicily, on January 2012, as the most famous Sicilian artist in the world.
Live Touring
Romina has performed and/or worked with Andrea BocelliAndrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli, is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a soccer accident....
, Alessandro Safina
Alessandro Safina
Alessandro Safina is an Italian operatic tenor.Born in Siena, Italy, Safina's love of opera was encouraged early in life by his mother encouraged his eagerness. His father was also a singer....
, Mario Frangoulis
Mario Frangoulis
Mario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò". He sings in Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Greek; he is fluent in all 5 languages.-Early life:...
, Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls
Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was an American soul, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game"...
, Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
of the Beach Boys
The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
, Al Martino
Al Martino
Al Martino was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid 1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became well known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The...
, Gladys Knight
Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight , known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman, humanitarian, and author...
, Eliot Sloan from Blessid Union of Souls
Blessid Union of Souls
Blessid Union of Souls is an American rock band from Morrow, Ohio that was formed in 1990 by friends Jeff Pence and Eliot Sloan....
, Eric Rigler
Eric Rigler
Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He plays on his own and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time"...
pipes player from the famous music soundtracks of the movies Braveheart
Braveheart
Braveheart is a 1995 epic historical drama war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. The film was written for the screen and then novelized by Randall Wallace...
and Titanic 1997 film, and headlined on the Celine Dion
Celine Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
stageThe Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
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Over the length of Romina’s career she has built a solid touring history by performing several countries worldwide including 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...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, 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...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Belgium
Belgium
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, Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, Portugal
Portugal
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, Gibraltar
Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance of the Mediterranean. A peninsula with an area of , it has a northern border with Andalusia, Spain. The Rock of Gibraltar is the major landmark of the region...
, 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...
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, Singapore
Singapore
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, Thailand
Thailand
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, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
. She also performed many cities in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
including Boston MA, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
IL, Cleveland OH, Youngstown
Youngstown
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OH, Canton OH
Canton, Ohio
Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately south of Akron and south of Cleveland.The City of Caton is the largest incorporated area within the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area...
, Akron
Akron
-Settlements:Canada* Akron, OntarioSouth Africa* Akron, South AfricaUnited States* Akron, Alabama* Akron, Colorado* Akron, Indiana* Akron, Iowa* Akron, Michigan* Akron, New York* Akron, Pennsylvania* Akron, West Virginia* Akron Township, Illinois...
OH, Columbus OH, Cincinnati OH, Traverse City MI, New York City
New York City
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, Orlando FL, Ft. Lauderdale FL, Miami FL, San Antonio TX, 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...
CA, Amarillo TX, Milwaukee WI, Boise ID, Denver CO, Las Vegas NV, Reno NV, Washington DC, and Vancouver BC, 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...
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She has performed in some of the most prestige’s venues in the world. The Sidney Opera House in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
Australia
Australia
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, St. Peter's Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as ' and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world...
Vatican City
Vatican City
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in Rome
Rome
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Italy
Italy
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, The Whitehouse in Washington DC, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure near Morrison, Colorado, where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a...
in Denver CO, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace The Bellagio and The Paris Las Vegas
Paris Las Vegas
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in Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
The Las Vegas Valley is the heart of the Las Vegas-Paradise, NV MSA also known as the Las Vegas–Paradise–Henderson MSA which includes all of Clark County, Nevada, and is a metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The Valley is defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a ...
and the Italian Embassy, Washington, D.C. to name a few.
Charity Work
Romina's incredible talents have helped many major non profit organizations over the past four years to raise over a million dollars from such organizations, including The American Red Cross The Yellow Ribbon Group, The Arts Olympus and many others.Discography
- 1984 to 1993 - Starting at the age of 4 to the age of 13 years old Romina was signed to Disney Italy’s Mickey Mouse club and the companies “Prima Ribalta”, “Shasa Digital Sound” and released three compilations and singles - Italy
- 1994 “Una Vita Senza Vita” from San Remo Nuovi Talenti (New Talent) Festival Compilation - Italy
- 1994 “You’re The Only One” Peter Ciani Music – Australia (Single)
- 1994 “As Beautiful as You” CP Productions/BMGBMGBertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
- Germany - 1995 “As Beautiful as You” CP Productions/BMGBMGBertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...
- Australia - 2000 "Unreleased Album Project" produced by Bob JohnstonBob JohnstonDonald William Robert 'Bob' Johnston is a noted American record producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson and many Nashville recording artists, as well as Simon and Garfunkel.-Early days:Johnston was born into a professional musical family...
- US - 2001 “Subaru” Design House/Toshiba-EMIToshiba-EMI(formerly , is one of Japan's leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30, 2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake. The current CEO and president is San-e Ichii. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was...
- Japan - 2003 “Romina Arena” for Miller’s Gin – Miller Spirits - US & UK (Premium)
- 2003 “Satellite” Soundtrack from Xbox Video Game Project Gotham Racing 2Project Gotham Racing 2Project Gotham Racing 2 is a racing game for the Xbox, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft. PGR2 is the sequel to the highly successful Project Gotham Racing. It is the second title in the Project Gotham Racing series.As in PGR, the route to advancement in PGR2 differs from...
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– US/Italy/International - 2004 “Romina Arena” American Entertainment Records– US
- 2006 "You're Gonna Hear from Me" Outback Records – US
- 2006 “Cuerpo Sin Alma” (Spanish) Outback Records – US
- 2008 "Believe" NMG Records (Single)
- 2009 "A Joyful Christmas" NMG Records
- 2010 "Romanza" (The Love Collection, Limited Edition) - NMG Records
- 2010 "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" is a song composed by Michel Legrand, with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman for the 1982 film Best Friends, where it was introduced by Patti Austin and James Ingram...
" NMG/Macs Records - Italy/US - 2011 "A Mother's Prayer" NMG Records (Single)
- 2011 "Arthur's Theme" (The Best That You Can Do) NMG Records (Single)
- 2011 "Life" released September 6, 2011 - NMG Records
- 2012 “Premonition” to be released in 2012 through Warner Music GroupWarner Music GroupWarner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...