Anna Tatangelo

Anna Tatangelo (born 9 January 1987) is an Italian pop singer and television personality. At the age of 15, she became the youngest person to win the Newcomer's Award at the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival singing contest.

Her repertoire consists mainly of pop music with slight influences of neo-melodic in some of the songs composed for her by singer Gigi D'Alessio, but also in the fifth fusion albums Progetto B. She faced several social issues and current affairs, such as the empowerment of women, homophobia, anorexia and violence against women. Since 2007 she also wrote some songs.

She participated in the Sanremo Music Festival six times in ten years, winning in 2002 with the song "Doppiamente fragile" and getting on the podium three more times: in 2005, when it was ranked third in the category "Women" with "Ragazza di periferia", in 2006, when it was ranked in third place overall and first in the category women with "Essere una donna" and in 2008, when, with the song "Il mio amico" has reached the second position. The last was in 2011 with the song "Bastardo".

She has been in a romantic relationship with the singer Gigi D'Alessio from February 2005 to March 2020.

Up to date she has sold nearly 1 million copies worldwide. She has been a guest on several Italian TV shows, including Ti Lascio una canzone on April 5, 2008, and she also won the first Italian edition of Celebrity Masterchef. Anna Tatangelo was born in Sora to a family of producers of ciambella, traditional bagel sorana. Since 1994, age 7, she began to take part in several shows in provincial and regional contests, collecting numerous placements, such as in 1999, where she placed second with "Minifestival della canzone" of Viterbo, which she won a year later.

In 2001 she participated in the concert "La nota d'oro di Blera", won the traveling "Bravissimi in tour" stop in Sora and also won the national final of Cassano. Again, she won second place in the final of the competition "Una voce per ... " and another victory to" Castelliri in Musica. "

In August of that year, at age 14, she was selected by Rai for "Girofestival" where she presented her first song titled, "Dov’e’ il coraggio" ("Where is the Courage") and came third in the newcomers section and was selected to perform at the Nuove

voci per Sanremo (New Voices of Sanremo) Festival in Gropparello. For the same song she shot her first music video and also signed her first record deal (with the CSB Italy – Casalba). She perfected her style at the Music Academy of Sora, where she played for the youth choir in concert.

In September of that year she participated and won the academy's Song of Sanremo with the song Angelo of Syria: with this victory comes right in the cast of the youth category of the Sanremo Music Festival in 2002.