Mietta

In 1988 she took part in the Sanremo Music Festival in the New comers category with Sogno. It didn't happen, however it was noticed by the melodic songwriter Amedeo Minghi, who wrote the song Canzoni for her in the following year. Mietta won the New comers category and the critics award Mia Martini. In the same year she was awarded her first platinum album and the Telegatto as best new artist of 1989, with the support of votes from Italians.

In 1990 Amedeo Minghi, with his talent as a scout, sang a duet with her in Vattene amore, the song that won third place in the SanRemo Festival and has been interpreted into English 'All for the Love' by Nikka Costa. The song also won the OGAE, an international song contest, and became an evergreen, winning ten gold records. Her debut album, also entitled "Canzoni", went five times platinum and is published throughout Europe. In 1990 she again won two Telegattos: One for the song of the year and the other award for best female artist of the year.

Mietta returned to The SanRemo Festival in 1991 with Dubbi no, sung in English by Leo Sayer, and won another Telegatto as the female artist of the year. Her second album "Volano le pagine", which contains a cover version of Lover Man, won two platinum record awards.

In 1992 she released "Lasciamoci respirare" album and in 1994 "Cambia pelle", besides two duets with Riccardo Cocciante, "E Pensare Che Pensavo Mi Pensassi Almeno Un Po" and "Sulla Tua Pelle" from Cocciante's "Un Uomo Felice" album and another SanRemo with Figli di chi, song written by Nek.

In 1995 Mietta continued with musical experimentation, tackling different types of music, from soul to blues, from hip hop to the trip hop album "Daniela è felice". Her music video Oggi Dani è più felice won the MTV award in England as best foreign video transmitted for the year.

In 1996, she performed the speaking and singing voice of Esmeralda in the Italian-Language dub of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but was later replaced by Franca D'Amato in the less successful 2002 direct-to-video sequel. She soon appeared in Zucchero's video "Menta e rosmarino" and later debuts as an actress in "La piovra" which was a popular Italian series.

In 1998 she was back to music with "La mia anima ", album with cover songs of popular black music. In 2000 she again took part in the SanRemo Festival with Fare l'amore, a song composed by Mango and contained in her first greatest hits "Tutto o niente."

In 2002 she got a new role for dramatic actress in the TV film Donne di mafia. Electro-pop and arabesque sounds for the 2003 album Per esempio...per amore, produced and written by Mango.

In 2004 she took a duet with Morris Albert in SanRemo Festival with Cuore and in 2005 she participated in a talent show conducted by Simona Ventura, titled Music Farm.

In 2006, after a single R&B Bugiarda, she released a pop-rock album "74100", which is the postal code of Taranto (Mietta's city). The album also featured songwriters such as Martin Briley and Deekay. ...

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