Mietta returns to Sanremo again and that was for me the best news of the list published yesterday. It is her 8th time and also her 20th anniversary as an artist. Her career started as a model and a radio soap opera star until 1988 when she participated in Sanremo's new comers category with Sogno. She didn't succeed so well but was noted by Amedeo Minghi who wrote for her Canzoni for 1989. She won hands down the New comers category besides winning the critics award or Premio Mia Martini. She gets her first platinum record and wins Telegatto Argento as the best new artist of 1989, voted by Italians. In 1990 Minghi was still acting as her mentor and they dueted in Vattene amore, an OGAE song contest winning song that has become an evergreen. It came only 3rd but stayed in charts forever. Her debut album, also titled Canzoni sells 6 times platinum and is released Europewide and she wins two Telegattos, for the song of the year and the female artist of the year. In 1991 she sings Minghi's Dubbi no in Sanremo and wins another Telegatto as the female artist of the year. Her second album Volano le pagine sells two times platinum.In 1992 she releases Lasciamoci respirare album and in 1992 Cambia pelle, with another Sanremo with I ragazzi di Via Meda, Figli di chi. In 1995 her exploration with music styles from funky, blues and hip hop takes another step further to trip hop and more soul with album Daniela é felice. In 1996 she does Esmeralda for Disney, a video with Zucchero and debuts as an actress in popular La Piovra tv-series. In 1998 she's back to music with La mia anima album, covers of black music mostly. The year after she is acting again before releasing her first greatest hits album Tutto o niente in 2000, with another participation in Sanremo with Fare l'amore, written by Mango. Then again she was acting in a TV-film Donne in mafia.
(At some point she also opens a restaurant in Rome... I was there but can't remember now what's it called!).
In 2003 Per esempio...per amore album, with many songs written by Mango and in 2004 she duets with Morris Albert in Sanremo with Cuore. Then in 2005 she does reality TV with Music Farm, duets with Marya in Bugiarda single before releasing in 2006 a new album 74100, after the postal code of her home town Taranto where she was born in 1969.
74100 in my opinion is her best album since her 3 first ones where everything comes together.
Let's see and hear what she has in store for us with Baciami adesso (Kiss me now)!
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