As an artist that is. This fall he will release his fifth album and the first after his coming out in Vanity Fair last year. The same magazine already featured him in the cover back in 2006 as "Tiziano Ferro is a lonely man", a fact that would become painfully evident in his autobiography Trent'anni e una chiaccherata con papà (Thirty years and one talk with dad) released also in 2010. He may have never been very comfortable with the fame but his is one real success story once it got going.
After several refusals by producers and not being accepted for Sanremo festival 1998 and 1999 (Quando ritornerai) he finally gets his first single recorded and released. Xdono becomes a #1 hit in Italy and charts all over Europe and is the third most sold single in Europe in 2002. Versions in Spanish, French, English and Portuguese are also released. His debut album Rosso relativo sells over 400.000 copies in Italy and almost 2,5 million in the world producing other hits L'Olimpiade, Imbranato, Rosso relativo and Le cose che non dici.
Next album 111 sells in Italy over 500.000 and over a million abroad and features hits Xperso, Sere nere, Non me lo so spiegare and Ti voglio bene. He also wrote the Italian lyrics for Blue's A chi mi dice amongst many other songs for other artists and also records with Jamelia Universal prayer . Giusy Ferreri and Carmen Consoli have recorded songs written by him and soon Alice is joining the club in her worthcoming album.
The success continued with Nessuno è perfetto in 2006. Over 450.000 sold in Italy and over a million abroad with hits Stop! Dimentica, Ed ero contentissimo, Ti scatterò una foto, E Raffaella è mia /dedicated to Raffaella Carrà) and E fuori è buio.
His fourth album Alla mia età sold over 600.000 in Italy alone and stayed over 100 weeks in the official charts. On the album he duets with Franco Battiato and Kelly Rowland, and Amaia Montero for the Spanish language version. The singles were Alla mia età, Il regalo più grande, Indietro, Il sole esiste per tutti and Scivoli di nuovo.He has also dueted with Laura Pausini and Mary J. Blige amongst others.
Over the past ten years he has won countless awards home and abroad and in January 2011 the poll organized by Rockol and Fnac chose him as the Artist of the decade.
And today exactly ten years ago the story started with the release of Xdono.
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