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| CATEGORIES ABOUT ELISA | |
| 1977 births | |
| italian singers | |
| english-language singers | |
| italian-language singers | |
| living people | |
| people from friuli-venezia giulia | |
| people from the province of gorizia | |
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Elisa Toffoli, or '''Elisa''', is an Italian singer. She sings in several musical genres that go from rock, to the blues, soul and ambient. She recently had a duet with Tina Turner with the song "Teach Me Again" for the film All The Invisible Children . EARLY LIFE Born in and the lyrics of Jim Morrison , but the best of her talent is expressed in music. At the age of 11 she wrote her first lyrics and melody. When she was 17 Elisa signed with Sugar . When she was 18 she left for Berkeley, where with Corrado Rustici (producer of Whitney Houston , Aretha Franklin , Francesco De Gregori, Claudio Baglioni) she worked on the songs of the album ''Pipes and Flowers''. In May 1997 she released the first single, ''Sleeping in Your Hand''. On 22 September the album ''Pipes and Flowers'', produced by Corrado Rustici, which soon went Triple Platinum in Italy. Elisa was the author of all lyrics, written in English, and of the melodies as well. She sang at the closing of the 2002 Salt Lake City , Utah Olympics after the passing of the Olympic Flag to Italy for the Winter Olympic Games in 2006 and at the Closing Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. THE FIRST AWARDS Three singles from ''Pipes and Flowers'' were released: ''Sleeping in your hand'', ''Labyrinth'' and ''A Feast for Me''. For these just before 1998 Elisa won the Targa Tenco (Tenco Plate), and the Premio Italiano della Musica (Italian Musical Award). She performed excellently live at the ''Imola Heineken Jammin Festival'' and as the special guest in the European tour of Eros Ramazzotti. In October she recorded the single ''Cure Me'', produced by Darren Allison (Skunk Anansie, Spiritualized), which was on the re-release of ''Pipes and Flowers''. Then, on 5 May 2000 , she released the album ''Asile's World'' (''Asile'' being ''Elisa'' written backwards), anticipated from the single ''The Gift''. The album was produced by Darren Allison, Howie B ( U2 , Björk ), Roberto Vernetti, Mauro Malavasi and Leo Z. Two other singles were released from this album: ''Happiness Is Home'' and the title-track, ''Asile's World''. Her biggest international hit, the song "Come Speak to me" is placed in this album too. It received a high rotation on the MTV Europe channel. Her next albums are called: "Then Comes the Sun" (2001), "Lotus" (2003) and "Pearl Days" (2005). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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