Nina Zilli

Nina Zilli, actually Maria Chiara Fraschetta, ( born February 2, 1980 in Piacenza) is an Italian singer. She represented Italy at the Euro Vision Song Contest in 2012.

Life

Born in Piacenza Maria Chiara Fraschetta grew up in Gossolengo. At the age of 13, she moved to Ireland and began classical vocal training. At 17, she formed her first band, The Jerks called themselves. After they have finished school, she spent two years in the United States, where she lived in Chicago and New York City. Back in Italy, she performed in 2000 and 2001 as Komoderatorin on the television program Roxy Bar of the Italian transmitter TMC2. 2001 also worked as a VJ for the Italian offshoot of the television station MTV. In the meantime, she performed with her ​​new band Chiara e gli Scuri, in 2001 her first single, Tutti al mare published.

From 2009 Fraschetta occurred under the stage name Nina Zilli. Zilli derives it from the mother's maiden name, while the first name Nina is geared to their artistic model Nina Simone. When Nina Zilli she published in 2009 her first single 50mila with which they occurred in the junior section of the Sanremo Festival. Among the other publications owned L' amore verrà, an Italian version of the song You Can not Hurry Love by The Supremes. When Sanremo Festival 2012, she presented her song Per semper and then appeared in a duet with British singer Skye Edwards. Together they sang the song Grande, grande, grande, a hit of the 1960s, which originally belonged to the repertoire of the singer Mina. At the end of the festival, it was selected as the Italian representative for participation in the Euro Vision Song Contest 2012 in Baku by the TV channel RAI. As a song for this contest Per semper was initially planned, but was later changed to L' amore è femmina. As their second studio album L' amore è femmina appeared on February 15, 2012.

Discography

  • 2010: Sempre lontano
  • 2012: L' amore è femmina
  • 2009: Nina Zilli
  • 2009: 50mila
  • 2009: L' amore verrà
  • 2010: L' uomo che le donne amava
  • 2010: Bacio d'a ( d) dio
  • 2012: Per semper
  • 2012: L' amore è femmina
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