Spagna
Background information
Birth name	Ivana Spagna
Born	December 16, 1954
Origin	Verona, Italy
Genre(s)	Dance, Pop
Years active	1986-present
Label(s)	Nar International (2005-present)/ B&G (2002-2004) / Sony Music (1986-2001)
Website	Official Spagna Site

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Career

Spagna was born in Verona. Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. ...

She started her career singing in English, and her first dance song "Easy Lady" (1986) was a hit throughout Europe. In 1987 she released her second successful hit, "Call Me". It ranked 1st in the European Top Chart, hit Number Two in the UK Singles Chart (and it is still the highest position ever achieved by an Italian singer in the UK), and made #13 in the Billboard Dance Chart. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ...

The same year her first album, featuring the two singles, was released. Dedicated To The Moon sold 500,000 copies, and won an international prize for having been the best-selling album on Compact Disc that year. A Compact Disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ...

After a dance-rock album, You Are My Energy, and one more minor hit in the UK chart ("Every Girl and Boy"), by 1990 Spagna, supported by Sony Music, moved to the USA. She lived in Santa Monica, working on her new disco-pop album No Way Out. This collection featured a song written by Diane Warren ("There's A Love"), and the two singles which released in the USA - "Love At First Sight" and "Only Words". MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... ... Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica is a coastal city located in Los Angeles County, California USA, by the Pacific Ocean, south of Pacific Palisades and Brentwood, west of Westwood, Los Angeles, and north of Venice. ... Diane Warren (born Diane Eve Warren on September 7, 1956 in Van Nuys, California) is an American songwriter. ...

In 1993 Spagna moved back to Europe again, and recorded Matter Of Time, considered by many her best album, featuring new eurodance rhythms and ballads. 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... World map showing the location of Europe. ... Eurodance is a colloquial and marketing term for a type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s. ...

In 1995, after the release of her last European hit ("Lady Madonna") as a single, she started singing in her native Italian. She took part several times in the Sanremo Festival, the most important Italian song-contest, ranking 3rd with the song "Gente Come Noi", which became the biggest hit of the year in Italy. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A European is primarily a person who was born into one of the countries within the continent of Europe. ... The Festival della canzone italiana (in Italian: Festival of the Italian song) is a popular Italian song contest running since 1951 and held annually in the city of Sanremo. ...

From that year onwards, Spagna released many successful albums sung in Italian (including hit singles such as "Siamo in due","E io penso a te","Lupi solitari","Indivisibili","Dov'eri","Il bello della vita-World Cup Song","Con il tuo nome") until 2003, when she left Sony Music in order to sing in English again. She joined an independent Swiss record label (B&G), and recorded Woman, a dance-pop album featuring eight new songs in English, a couple in Spanish and one in French. In 2004 a new remixed version of "Easy Lady" was released, and played by radio stations throughout Europe. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A radio station is a site configured for broadcasting sound. ...

Spagna's fourteen albums have sold a total of 10 million copies worldwide.

In February 2006 she took part in the Sanremo song contest, with the song "Noi Non Possiamo Cambiare", and in May 2006 ranked third in the Italian reality show "Music Farm". Media:Example. ... Country Italy Region Liguria Province Imperia (IM) Mayor Claudio Borea Elevation 15 m Area 54 km² Population  - Total (as of 2004) 56,903  - Density 936/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Coordinates Gentilic Sanremesi or Sanremaschi Dialing code 0184 Postal code 18038 Frazioni San Romolo, Poggio, Bussana, Bussana Vecchia, Coldirodi... May 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → May 1, 2006 (Monday) Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association outraged Vatican by planning to ordain another bishop, Liu Xinhong in Anhui Province. ...

Discography

• Dedicated To The Moon (1987, English)
• You Are My Energy (1989, English)
• No Way Out (1991, English)
• Spagna&Spagna: Greatest Hits (1993, English - collection)
• Matter Of Time (1993, English)
• Siamo In Due (1995, Italian)
• Lupi Solitari (1996, Italian)
• Indivisibili (1997, Italian)
• E che mai sarà: le mie più belle canzoni (1998, Italian - collection)
• Domani (2000, Italian)
• La nostra canzone (2001, Italian)
• Woman (2003, English)
• L'arte di arrangiarsi (2004, Italian)
• Diario Di Bordo (2005, Italian)
• Diario di bordo - Voglio sdraiarmi al sole" (2006, Italian)

References

• Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (16th Edition) - ISBN 0-85112-190-X

The cover of the 1989 7th edition of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles Guinness World Records - British Hit Singles & Albums is a music reference book, published in the United Kingdom, by Hit Entertainment, the company that owns such childrens entertainment brands as Bob the Builder and Thomas...

External links

• Official website