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Laura Pausini

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Laura Pausini
Background information
Birth name	Laura Pausini
Born	16 May 1974 (1974-05-16) (age 36) Solarolo, Province of Ravenna, Italy
Origin	Emilia–Romagna, Italy
Genres	Pop, pop rock, latin pop
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, record producer
Years active	1993–present
Labels	CGD/CGD East West, Atlantic, Warner
Associated acts	Eros Ramazzotti, Hélène Segara, Andrea Bocelli
Website	laurapausini.com

'Laura Pausini (Italian pronunciation: [pauˈziːni]), omri, (born 16 May 1974, Solarolo, Province of Ravenna, Italy)is one of the most famous and successful Italian singer-songwriters worldwide. She signed to Warner Music Group since 1993. Dubbed the "Queen of Italian pop" by entertainment news outlets, Pausini is famed for her soulful voice and romantic ballads. She is also known for multilingual music productions that span five languages—her native Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese and French.
Pausini debuted at the 43rd Annual Sanremo Music Festival in 1993. Her first place victory in the competition's New Talent division helped launch her music career in Europe. She tapped the hispanophone and lusophone markets in Ibero-America with crossover recordings. Since 1996, she has concurrently released Spanish–language companion editions with her vernacular studio albums—"a practice that [has] come to define her career and compound her success". In 2001, she recapped eight years of success with a greatest hits album, issued in the two customary editions—Italian and Spanish. Following an English-language crossover attempt in 2002, Pausini returned with the galvanizing studio album Escucha (2004). The recording garnered a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album in 2006.
As of March 2009, Pausini maintains worldwide record sales in excess of 60 million. In 2004, with Pausini's sales tally at only 25 million, Allmusic's Jason Birchmeier considered this "an impressive feat for someone who'd never really broken into the lucrative English–language market".

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards and nominations 3 Honours 4 Discography 5 Tour

 Biography

Laura is the elder of two daughters born to Fabrizio Pausini and Gianna Ballardini.Alluding to Pausini's autobiographical track "Viaggio con te" (2000), Valentina Khalife of Miami New Times affirms, "Playful strings suggest that the singer grew up happily with the help of her father's love". She started to sing in local piano bars with her father Fabrizio, a musician and singer, when she was only eight years old. At the age of thirteen, Laura had her first recording experience with the album I sogni di Laura (Laura's Dreams), a semi-professional release produced by her father in 1987. In 1993 her career was launched when she won the prestigious Italian Sanremo Music Festival with one of her best known songs, "La solitudine".
As a natural consequence, she signed a contract with Warner Music Italy to release her first professional album, Laura Pausini (1993), which was a big success in Italy, France, as well as in The Netherlands. Her second album, Laura, was released in 1994 and was such a big hit that her recording company offered her a deal to record in Spanish.
At the end of 1994, Pausini released her first Spanish album, Laura Pausini, a compilation of ten adapted versions of hits from her first two Italian albums. The album was so successful that it made her a household name in the Spanish-speaking world. Her song "Se fue" was one of the most played songs of 1995 according to the Hot Latin Tracks chart of Billboard.
Following this success, Pausini simultaneously released Spanish editions of her native Italian language albums: Le cose che vivi (1996), La mia risposta (1998) and Tra te e il mare (2000), were released in Spain and Latin America as Las cosas que vives, Mi respuesta and Entre tú y mil mares, respectively. She also recorded three bonus tracks in Portuguese for a special edition of her album Le cose che vivi in 1996.
The first English language recording made by Pausini was of her Italian language hit "La solitudine" rendered by lyricist Tim Rice as "The Loneliness" for a UK single release of 19 June 1995 which was overlooked. In 1999 she contributed the Richard Marx composition "One More Time" to the Message in a Bottle soundtrack; the track was produced by David Foster who was featured on piano. Also in 1999, famed Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti invited Pausini to his annual "Pavarotti and Friends" concert, and the two of them sang the Italian version of the aria Dein ist mein ganzes Herz, titled Tu che m'hai preso il cuor, from Franz Lehár's operetta Das Land des Lächelns. In 2000, she recorded the song "The Extra Mile" for the soundtrack of the movie Pokémon 2000: The Power of One.
Pausini's first English album, From the Inside, was released by Atlantic Records on 5 November 2002; producers included Patrick Leonard and John Shanks. The first single "Surrender" became a U.S. disco hit reaching #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in Billboard but - despite extensive promotion by Pausini - the track did not accrue support from U.S. radio. "Surrender" did become a Top Ten hit in Canada - radio there supporting the track due to its having a Cancon qualifying songwriting credit - and the track returned Pausini to the charts in several European nations reaching #7 in Italy but for the most part occasioning a dip in her popularity. The album's second single: "If That's Love" reached #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the spring of 2003; Pausini at the time was on a promotional junket to the UK which included a TOTP performance of "Surrender", and - disappointed at her English language debut being ignored in the U.S. outside the club scene - she abandoned promotion for From the Inside. The album's global sales are estimated at 800,000 units with the U.S. tally a disappointing 100,000.
2001 saw the release of Pausini's first hits compilation both in Italian and Spanish: The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te and Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti. In 2003 Luciano Pavarotti again invited her to the "Pavarotti and Friends" concert and once more they sang Tu che m'hai preso il cuor. In 2004 she released Resta in ascolto. The Spanish version of this album, Escucha, awarded Pausini a Latin Grammy in 2005 and a Grammy in 2006. This made her the first Italian female to receive such honors. The song "Víveme" was featured as the theme music to La Madrastra, a popular Mexican telenovela, in which she had a memorable cameo appearance.
About her album Io canto (Italian for 'I sing') she has said: "I chose the music I listen to, in sad moments as well as in other, more special ones, those tunes that have taught me how to feel, how to love music beyond genres and styles."On 2 June 2007, Laura Pausini was the first female artist to play at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy in front of a crowd of 70,000 spectators. Later that year the concert was released on CD and DVD and became very successful in Italy and Spain.
On 8 November 2007, Laura won a Latin Grammy Award for the best female album with 'Yo Canto', the Spanish version of the album 'Io Canto'. Laura dedicated the award to the memory of Italian legend Luciano Pavarotti. Later on during the show she sang songs from her album 'Yo Canto' alongside Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.
In 2008 Laura spent most of her time in the studio, recording another new album. Her tenth studio album called Primavera in anticipo was first released in its Spanish language edition Primavera Anticipada on 11 November 2008 in the hispanophone market, then was released in the Italian language edition in Italy on 14 November 2008. The international version of the album was released on 18 November in Spain, Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Malta and other European countries. On 1 December 2008, the album was released in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela. In 2009, Laura Pausini began a new World tour, starting in Italy and across Europe, then to North America and South America. In November 2009 she won her third Latin Grammy Award for best female album with "Primavera anticipada", in 2010 she won her third Lo Nuestro Award for "Female artist of the year," becoming one of the best selling Latin artist of all time.
As of 22 August 2010, Pausini announced, on her official fan club site Laura 4U, the name of her new producer, Riccardo Benini, who worked with Juanes, Miguel Bosé, Eros Ramazotti and others. She also confirmed that her new album will be coming in Christmas 2011. It is also rumoured that a particular fan party (which has been noticed on Pausini's official Twitter, Facebook and fan club) will be recorded and released as a DVD. Its name is supposed to be 4U.

 Awards and nominations

Honours

 Commander Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: Awarded the fourth highest civil honor in Italy, by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on 6 February 2006.

 Discography

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Studio albums 1993: Laura Pausini 1994: Laura 1996: Le cose che vivi / Las cosas que vives 1998: La mia risposta / Mi respuesta 2000: Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares 2001: From the Inside 2004: Resta in ascolto / Escucha 2006: Io canto / Yo canto 2008: Primavera in anticipo / Primavera anticipada

Compilation albums 1994: Laura Pausini (Spanish) 1995: Laura Pausini (Italian-only compilation) 2001: The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te / Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti Live albums 2001: World Tour 2001-2002 2005: Live in Paris 05 2007: San Siro 2007 2009: Laura Live World Tour 09 / Laura Live Gira Mundial 09 Other albums 1987: I sogni di Laura 2010: Amiche per L'Abruzzo

 Tour

• 1997: World Wide Tour 1997
• 1999: World Tour 1999
• 2001–2002: World Tour 2001–2002
• 2005: World Tour 2005
• 2006: Juntos en Concierto Tour 2006
• 2007: San Siro live
• 2009: World Tour 2009

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