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Elisa
Italian singer Elisa Toffoli
Since 1977
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Elisa Toffoli (born 19 December 1977), known mononymously as Elisa, is an Italian singer, songwriter and record producer. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternative rock, electronica, and trip hop, recording songs both in Italian and English, which she considers her artistic primary language.
In Europe, she rose in fame for her double single "Come Speak to Me", English version of Sanremo Music Festival's winning song "Luce (Tramonti a nord est)", while she became famous in North America for "Dancing", featured in both the 2006 and 2007 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. On 18 December 2012, her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, "Ancora qui", was featured in Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained soundtrack album, which was nominated at the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media in 2014.
Elisa has released eleven studio albums, five compilations, three live albums, eight video albums and 60 singles, topping the Italian Albums Chart five times and selling over 20 million records worldwide, of which 5.5 million copies certified by Musica e dischi and over 3 million units by FIMI since 2009, with a diamond album and several multiplatinum certifications. Elisa recorded songs with international artists such as Tina Turner, Muse, Imagine Dragons, and Italian artists from different music genres, including Luciano Ligabue, Negramaro, Andrea Bocelli, Cesare Cremonini, Mahmood and Rkomi. She also wrote and produced songs and albums for Francesca Michielin, Elodie, Alessandra Amoroso, Giorgia and Mina.
Throughout her career, Elisa has been recognized by the major Italian awards, including a total of seven awards at the Sanremo Music Festival with "Luce (Tramonti a nord est)" (2001) and "O forse sei tu" (2022), one Targa Tenco, two Lunezia Awards, 13 Italian, Wind & Music Awards, one award at the Festivalbar, and an MTV Europe Music Award. She also wrote and composed songs for films directed by Giovanni Veronesi, Alessandro D'Alatri, Luca Guadagnino, winning a David di Donatello and a Nastro d'Argento for Best Original Song.
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Elisa Toffoli, plus connue sous le nom de scène de Elisa (née à Trieste le 19 décembre 1977 à Monfalcone, dans la région Frioul-Vénétie Julienne, en Italie), est une auteure-compositrice-interprète, musicienne, productrice, arrangeur italienne.
Elisa écrit la plupart de ses textes en anglais et en italien, son répertoire se compose au début principalement de rock alternatif et de pop rock évoluant au cours de sa carrière pour s'étendre à la chanson d'auteur, à la dance-pop et à la pop traditionnelle.
Avec onze albums studio, sept compilations et trois albums live, Elisa a vendu plus de 5 millions d'albums à travers le monde. La chanteuse s'est classée quatre fois en tête du classement italien des albums, tandis que pour les singles, elle a figuré seize fois dans le top 10, avec six numéros un au classement FIMI des singles. Grâce à ses compositions en anglais, elle a connu le succès sur les marchés internationaux, notamment avec les titres Luce (Tramonti a nord est), vainqueur du festival de Sanremo 2001 et de cinq autres prix, ainsi que Dancing, O forse sei tu et la collaboration Birds avec Imagine Dragons.
En Italie, elle a remporté tous les principaux prix et distinctions dans le domaine musical grâce à ses projets et à la composition de morceaux pour des bandes originales. Parmi les nombreuses récompenses qu'elle a accumulées, un Nastro d'Argento, un David di Donatello et le prix international MTV Europe Music Awards. En 2013, la chanson Ancora qui, bande originale du film de Quentin Tarantino Django Unchained, écrite par Elisa et composée par Ennio Morricone, figurait parmi les soixante-quinze chansons en lice pour l'Oscar de la meilleure chanson originale et le Grammy Awards.
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Discography
Albums
- 1997 Pipes & Flowers
- 2000 Asile’s World
- 2001 Then Comes the Sun
- 2003 Lotus
- 2004 Pearl Days
- 2009 Heart
- 2010 Ivy
- 2013 L’anima vola
- 2016 On
- 2018 Diari aperti
- 2022 Ritorno al futuro / Back to the Future
EPs
- 2010 Ivy
- 2019 Secret Diaries
Singles
- 1992 Everyone Is Good for Love
- 1997 Sleeping in Your Hand
- 1997 Mr. Want
- 1997 Labyrinth
- 1998 A Feast for Me
- 1998 Cure Me
- 2000 Happiness Is Home
- 2000 Gift
- 2000 Asile’s World
- 2001 Heaven Out of Hell
- 2001 Luce (Tramonti a nord est)
- 2002 Fever
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- 2002 Hablame
- 2002 Time
- 2002 Come Speak to Me
- 2002 Rainbow
- 2002 Dancing
- 2003 Electricity
- 2003 Nessuna certezza
- 2003 Broken
- 2004 Together
- 2004 The Waves
- 2005 Una poesia anche per te
- 2006 Gli ostacoli del cuore
- 2007 Stay
- 2007 Eppure sentire (Un senso di te)
- 2007 Qualcosa che non c'è
- 2009 Ti vorrei sollevare
- 2010 Cuore amore
- 2010 Nostalgia
- 2010 Anche se non trovi le parole
- 2010 Someone to Love
- 2011 Sometime Ago
- 2011 Basta così
- 2011 Love Is Requited
- 2013 L’anima vola
- 2013 Ecco che
- 2014 Un filo di seta negli abissi
- 2014 Pagina bianca
- 2014 A modo tuo
- 2014 Maledetto labirinto
- 2015 La signora del quinto piano # 1522
- 2016 No Hero
- 2016 Vain
- 2016 Love Me Forever
- 2016 Bruciare per te
- 2017 Ogni istante / Yours to Keep
- 2017 Piccola anima
- 2018 Da sola / In the Night
- 2018 Will We Be Strangers
- 2018 Quelli che restano
- 2018 Se piovesse il tuo nome
- 2018 Promettimi
- 2018 Se piovesse il tuo nome
- 2019 Anche fragile
- 2019 Blu
- 2019 Vivere tutte le vite
- 2019 Birds
- 2019 Tua per sempre
- 2019 Blu Part II
- 2019 Soul
- 2020 Neon – Le ali
- 2020 Andrà tutto bene
- 2020 Three Little Birds
- 2020 Volente o nolente
- 2021 Rubini
- 2021 Seta