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Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini at the Festival Teatro Canzone Giorgio Gaber, Viareggio, Lucca, Italy, 21 July 2007
Background information
Birth name	Laura Pausini
Born	16 May 1974 (1974-05-16) (age 35) Solarolo, Ravenna, Italy
Origin	Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Genres	Pop, pop rock
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, record producer
Years active	1993–present
Labels	CGD/CGD East West (1993–2001) Atlantic (2002–2003) Warner (2004–present)
Website	www.laurapausini.com

Laura Pausini (Italian pronunciation: [pau.ˈziː.ni]), omri, (born 16 May 1974, Solarolo, Ravenna)^[A] is an Italian singer–songwriter and record producer signed to Warner Music Group since 1993. Dubbed the "Queen of Italian pop" by entertainment news outlets,¹ 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 victory² in the competition's New Talent division helped launch her music career in Europe. She later tapped the hispanophone and lusophone markets in Ibero-America with crossover recordings. Since 1996, she has concurrently released Spanish–language companion iceditions with her vernacular studio albums—"a practice that [has] come to define her career and compound her success".³ In 2001, she recapped eight years of success with a greatest hits album, issued in the two customary editions—Italian and Spanish. Following a failed 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 2006.⁴

As of March 2009, Pausini maintains worldwide record sales in excess of 45 million.⁵⁶⁷ 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".³

Biography

Laura is the eldest of two daughters born to Fabrizio Pausini and Gianna Ballardini.⁸ 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".⁹ 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".²

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.^{citation needed}

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.^{citation needed}

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.^{citation needed}

Pausini's first English language single was a version of the hit "La solitudine" in 1995 titled "The Loneliness" adapted by Tim Rice, but it was not successful. In 1999 she participated in the soundtrack of the Hollywood movie Message In A Bottle (with Kevin Costner and Paul Newman) with a soulful ballad titled "One More Time", written by Richard Marx and recorded with David Foster 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 theme "The Extra Mile" for the soundtrack of the movie Pokémon 2000: The Power of One.^{citation needed}

Laura Pausini at Barcelona's El Corte Inglés–Portal de l'Àngel Escucha record promotion event, 28 October 2004

Pausini then released her first English album, From the Inside, with Atlantic Records in 2002, working with producers Patrick Leonard and John Shanks among others. Her first single "Surrender" peaked at #1 in Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and fared well on the Dance Radio Airplay chart. The song, "Surrender" saw some limited exposure on the Adult Contemporary radio format. In an Australian release of the album, she has two versions of "Surrender" included - the original dance version, and a downtempo version called the "Toronto Chilled Mix".¹⁰ Her second single "If That's Love" was also a #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Unfortunately, the album did not obtain the success the label had hoped for, failing to sell more than 100,000 in the long run.^{citation needed}

Her first hits compilation came in 2001 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.^{citation needed}

About her album Io canto (Spanish Yo canto) 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."¹¹ On the 2nd of 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.^{citation needed}

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.^{citation needed}

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 November 11, 2008 in the hispanophone market, then was released in the Italian language edition in Italy on November 14, 2008. The international version of the album was released on November 18 in Spain, Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Malta and other European countries. On December 1, 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, South America and Australia.^{citation needed}

Awards

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In concert

Billboard Latin Music Awards

• 2006: Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, Female – "Víveme"

Grammy Awards

• 2006: Best Latin Pop Album – Escucha

Latin Grammy Awards

• 2005: Best Female Pop Vocal Album – Escucha
• 2007: Best Female Pop Vocal Album – Yo Canto
• 2009: Best Female Pop Vocal Album – Primavera Anticipada

Premio Lo Nuestro

• 1995: Best New Pop Artist
• 2006: Best Female Pop Artist

World Music Awards

• 1994: Best-Selling Italian Artist
• 2003: Best-Selling Italian Artist
• 2007: Best-Selling Italian Artist

ASCAP Latin Music Awards

• 2002: Best pop ballad - "Volveré junto a ti"
• 2006: Best pop ballad - "Viveme"
• 2006: Best theme from a soap opera - "Viveme"
• 2007: Best pop ballad - "Como si no nos hubieramos amado"

Platinum Europe Award

• 1996: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "Laura Pausini"
• 1996: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "Laura"
• 1997: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "Le cose che vivi"
• 2002: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "The best of Laura Pausini"

Wind Music Awards

• 2007: One award for the CD Io Canto
• 2008: Two awards for the CD and DVD of the San Siro concert^{citation needed}
• 2009: One award for the CD Primavera in anticipo

Honors

- Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana: Awarded the fourth highest civil honor in Italy, by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on February 6, 2006.

Discography

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
• 2009: World Tour 2009

Notes

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Laura Pausini

• Official website
• Laura Pausini at the Internet Movie Database
• Biography of Laura Pausini from Billboard