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Irene Grandi
Grandi at the Sanremo Music Festival 2020
Background information
Born	(1969-12-06) 6 December 1969 (age 55) Florence, Italy
Genres	Pop rock soul blues
Occupations	Singer songwriter television personality author
Instruments	Electric guitar acoustic guitar tambourine
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Warner Music Group Atlantic Records CGD Eastwest Carosello 3esessanta Columbia Records Sony Music
Website	www.irenegrandi.it

Irene Grandi (born 6 December 1969) is an Italian singer-songwriter.

During her career she has sung in Spanish and has performed duets in German, French, Indian and in African languages, selling around 5 million records and earning 9 top-ten albums and 6 top-ten singles of which one number-one on the Italian music charts. She has participated five times at the Sanremo Music Festival, reaching the podium in 2000. Grandi has performed for six times at the Festivalbar, conquering twice the platform and winning the Radio Awards. In the 2009 she has won a Wind Music Award, and in 2011 a Sanremo Hit Award.

Biography

Born in Florence, Grandi started singing while being a high schoool student, and was part of numerous local groups, notably Matte in Trasferta, in which she had Dirotta su Cuba singer Simona Bencini as a bandmate. She started her solo career in 1992, and in 1994 she entered the competition in the Newcomers' section of Sanremo Music Festival 1994 with "Fuori", leading single of her first album, Irene Grandi, thatcontained songs written with Eros Ramazzotti ("Sposati subito") and Jovanotti ("T.V.B."). In 1995, the radio hit "Bum Bum" anticipated her successful second album, In vacanza da una vita, was released; the same year, she toured with Pino Daniele, with whom she recorded the duet "Se mi vuoi". In 1997, she Per fortuna purtroppo, containing the hit "Che vita è", and in 1999 Verde rosso e blu, an album characterized by more Mediterranean sounds". Kose da Grandi, and Indelebile among others.

In 2000, she ranked second in 50th Sanremo Festival with "La tua ragazza sempre", a song written by Vasco Rossi and Gaetano Curreri, who also wrote and produced the title-track for her following album Prima di partire.

She performed lead vocals on the song "Blue", the closing track on French producer Hector Zazou's 2003 album Strong Currents. The album brought together a number of well-known soloists, features her alongside Laurie Anderson, Melanie Gabriel and Jane Birkin, among others.

In 2004, she made her debut as television presenter co-hosting with Marco Maccarini the Festivalbar.

She participated as a contestant in the 60th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival in 2010 with her song "La cometa di Halley" and again in the 65th edition in 2015 with "Un vento senza nome". She competed in the Sanremo Music Festival 2020 with the song "Finalmente io".

Discography

Filmography

• The Barber of Rio (1996)

References

1. http://www.viaggiatoriweb.it/2011/burkina-faso-% E2%80%A6 – going-and-return /
2. "Radio Italia".
3. ^ Deregibus, Enrico (2006). Dizionario completo della canzone italiana (in Italian). Giunti. pp. 224–5. ISBN 978-88-09-04602-3.
4. "Punto tutto sul fisico. E se non-vinco mi arrabbio". festivaldisanremo.com. Archived from the original on 17 May 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
5. "Strong Currents". rhapsody.com.
6. "Al Festivalbar 2004 Irene Grandi". guide.supereva.it. Archived from the original on 16 June 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
7. "Sanremo 2020: Ecco chi sono i 22 Big in gara della 70esima edizione del Festival". Coming Soon. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
8. Basile, Asia (13 May 2024). "Irene Grandi - Fiera di me (Radio Date 17-05-2024)" (in Italian). EarOne. Retrieved 16 May 2024.

External links

• Official page – irenegrandi.it
• Warner Music Irene Grandi page
• Irene Grandi Fanclub
• On MySpace
• Concert tickets, Schedule, Tour Dates – livenation.it

• 1969 births
• Living people
• MTV Europe Music Award winners
• Musicians from Florence
• 20th-century Italian women singers
• 21st-century Italian women singers