Italian music unquestionably bears the mark of Laura Pausini. The artist from Ravenna has become an icon, just like Raffaella Carrà was, and after a glorious career 30 years He wanted to celebrate it by giving three concerts in 24 hours in New York, Madrid and Milan.
Throughout his career, some of his songs such as Instead no, the loneliness is gone oh Strange LovesThey succeeded borders and they have succeeded all over the world.
Pausini knew when he was young that he wanted to sing, although it was not clear to him that he wanted to dedicate himself to music. He received a lot of support from his chaplainalso a musician Fabrice Pausiniwho transmitted to him everything he knew of this world and helped him take his first steps.
His first performance at only eight years old
She sang in the church choir and when she was only eight she accompanied her father to a piano bar in which he worked. His first job was to perform the song Sweet Remi, the intro of a cartoon, while playing, which thrilled the audience. Father and daughter then toured the main piano bars on the Adriatic coast and she was able to make yourself known
“Ezio Neri, the owner of the Napoleone restaurant, was my first employer. I was only eight years old when I sang my first song, with my father, in his famous restaurant. And then, at the age of 12, I started singing every Saturday and on Sundays because Neri asked me not to get lost”, wrote the artist on his networks in 2015.
The Italian has combined her studies and performances with composition. At 13 and helped by her father, she released her first album Laura’s Dreams, an album consisting of 13 songs. However, being a minor legal property of his father. She herself has repeatedly revealed that she does not consider it her first official album.
His rise to fame thanks to San Remo
For a long time, Laura tried to succeed by applying to various competition music, but to no avail. At 17, she takes part in a competition in the town of Castrocaro and is the last to sing New York, New York by Liza Minelli.
He was not discouraged and in 1993 he presented himself to San Remo, the contest that chooses Italy’s representative at Eurovision. She did it with the theme Solitude and won.
Since that day, she has become a estrelle and in some interviews he referred to how fame suddenly came to him: “I sang on Friday and on Saturday I was the most famous person in Italy. Many singers congratulated me, like Eros Ramazzotti. It was all very strange,” he admitted.
His first albums and awards
His first official album, Laura Pausini, It came out in 1993 and included the song with which he won in Sanremo. A year later, he released the album Laura and the first album in Spanish, Laura Pausini. It was a complete success in our country and is among the 10 best-selling albums in the history of Spain.
In 2006, he won his first latin grammys with the disc Listen and a year before he conquered the United States and won a Grammy for the same project.
Since its inception, Laura Pausini has managed to be clear about what her musical project was going to be and with a lot of effort and work, she realized it. However, we must also highlight the figure of her father, who accompanied her in her first steps.