Giovanna (singer)
Giovanna | |
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 Little Tony and Giovanna in Radiocorriere magazine, 1973. | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Giovanna Nocetti |
| Born | 10 March 1945 (age 79) Viareggio, Italy |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1970–present |
Giovanna Nocetti (born 10 March 1945), known mononymously as Giovanna, is an Italian singer, record producer and songwriter, mainly successful in the 1970s.
Life and career
[edit]Born in Viareggio, Giovanna started playing the guitar during her high school years, and after a year at the university she eventually decided to abandon her studies and to move to Milan to pursue a music career.[1] In 1967, she signed a contract with the label Meazzi, and the same year she recorded her first single, "Ricordi notturni", composed by her own.[1]
Giovanna became first known in 1970, thanks to her participation to the RAI musical show Settevoci, and the same year she got her first hit, "Io non volevo dimenticare".[1] In 1971 she released her first album, Una corsa pazza. In the late 1970s she passed to the label Ri-Fi, getting her major hit with the song "Il mio ex", written by Paolo Limiti and Roberto Carlos.[1]
In 1982 Giovanna founded her own label, Kicco Records. In 1985 she composed a musical version of Ave Maria, which she also performed at the Sala Nervi in Vatican City in the presence of Pope John Paul II.[1]
From the mid-1980s Giovanna focused her activity both as a singer and as a producer on rediscovering and reworking Italian classic songs.[1]
Discography
[edit]- Album
- 1971: Una corsa pazza
- 1973: Ho passato un brutto inverno
- 1975: Una storia quasi vera
- 1980: Giò
- 1982: Giovanna
- 1983: Macchie d'amore
- 1984: ’Na sera 'e maggio
- 1985: Tentazioni
- 1987: La voce dell'amore
- 1990: Giò
- 1991: L'amante mia
- 1991: Vecchio frak
- 1993: Noi, fra un tango e una canzone
- 1994: Lega l'amore
- 1994: Giò - La donna che amo
- 1997: Giovanna canta Nino Rota
- 1999: Songs e melodies
- 2000: Le canzoni di Paolo Limiti
- 2008: The best of my life
- 2010: Il mio ex - Le canzoni di Paolo Limiti vol. 2
References
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