Who is Annalise Scarrone? Biography of the singer

Annalize Scarrone was born in Savona (“Perhaps that’s why I can’t breathe without its sea”) on August 5 (“At three in the afternoon: it must have been a quick and painless story, I only know that it was very hot”), from parents- professors (mother Maura is English – “a real Ligurian: facts matter, not excesses” – and father Elvio is a mathematician – “Volcano of initiatives, words, imagination”).

“A hyperactive, highly alert, mischievous girl who always paired them but in a kind way”, “variety climber, indomitable centralizer with an enthusiasm for others to listen to her”, a collection of vinyl records and a record player they had at home (“and a giant sixties speakers, a wedding present from her parents”) takes her right into the arms of music (“It seems like I’ve always belonged to her: Led Zeppelin, Queen, Abba albums were big, crazy-designed squares that made magical sounds. . . , and soon they were my favorite games).

But the desire to play, to compose music comes along with the vision of Dire Straits’ pink guitar, in Free Money: “I wanted that too.” He was just under six years old when he began studying classical guitar and transverse flute. Then I sing. At the age of 13, he mastered vocal technique and piano with vocal teacher Danila Satrano, chorister and accordionist Fabrizio De Andre (“Mio mito”).
Adolescence is spent in pubs, in clubs: “I left Carcare, the mountain village where we lived, and went with my apprenticeship: the first stages and competitions, the rest of the groups were in Savona. We took a chance, listened to Joni Mitchell, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith, Sigur Ros, Police, Muse, Coldplay, Radiohead, Madonna, Björk, Portishead. They inspired us without comforting us.” And then there’s Mina: “This crazy singer with incredible makeup and untouchable voice, about whom no one will ever say anything, who at some point decided to leave us only what is from her.”

Passion calls strong, but still risks not giving chances where Annalise hope and believe. So, in 2009, he received a diploma in physics (“the subject that stimulated me the most”), defended his thesis on a geothermal heat pump (“to demonstrate that science is not something distant and incomprehensible, but also, like songs – the creation of a new, connected by imagination to our earthly, everyday life”).

But the lab coat will never wear it. Because it’s 2010 and it’s taken from Amici. In the 10th issue of Maria De Filippi’s Talent Show sweatshirt, he wins the Critics’ Award. “There I remember little, naively, I look around a lot, hungry, while everywhere the red lights of the cameras light up and I don’t have enough time”: maybe, but for now, a duet with Fiorella Mannoia, Mario Biondi, Christian De Sica and Alessandra Amoroso.

“Having got out of there, I didn’t understand anything: I was recognized everywhere, I was drawn from all sides, I was drunk with happiness.” It was March 4, 2011: in this hustle and bustle, her first album “Nali” (“nickname by which they called me a girl”) came out, 8 unreleased tracks, “one of which is Solo, coming out into the light, written by my hand: I I became so attached to her, because it was with her that I introduced myself for the first tests. The digital version of the disc immediately conquered the Network (in just one day it was already second on the iTunes chart), and summer was already for pop stars. She is awarded a platinum disc at the Arena di Verona that explodes for her, there is an Amici tour and Cuore di aliante performed at the Claudio Baglioni O’Scià festival in Lampedusa, in addition to her Diamante lei e luce he that for Rockol is the best Italian video clip in the developing category.

“Overnight, I became someone. But I must not lose my head. I didn’t need to confuse the start point with the end point. Starting again, like from scratch: this is what I needed. And now, he is recording (and releasing on March 27, 2012) the second studio album, which speaks about this, and already with the title Until everything changes. Two winters later, in 2014, the internal tracks All in all and Non so ballare, as well as the unreleased Capirai, will land in Holland as the soundtrack to Johan Nijenhuis’ Toscaanse Bruiloft – Tuscan Wedding.

Meanwhile, 2012 is also the year of Amici Big’s promotion. In the final, again at the Arena di Verona, she again received the Critics’ Prize, and on 21 July she received the Lunezia Prize at Marina di Carrara “for the musical-literary value of the album”. Say goodbye to autumn at two special events where audiences renew their applause and approval: at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome and at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. Annalise does not stop and continues to give herself without a trace. It is no coincidence that this song won her the Italian Videoclip Award, Mainstream section, female category.

But 2013 is still surprising. He made his debut at the 63rd Sanremo Festival (“before that, I had always and only watched him, fascinated by Georgia’s “Come saprei”, Laura Pausini’s “Solitude”, Mia Martini’s “Hint you in the Universe”). She enters the Ariston stage with Scintille and Non so ballare (which becomes the title track of her third album). The Preview tour begins, then the summer tour, but the work in the recording studio is also in full swing: between May and September 2014, the singles Sento solo il Presente and L’ultimo addio were released; December is the time of Dimenticare (Mai) Raige, in which he collaborates with the rapper.

We are in 2015, February: Annalise

returns to the Sanremo Festival in its 65th edition with Window Among the Stars, which – with a platinum sales certificate – will shine even in the Milky Way, chosen and distributed in space, as it was with Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Needless to say, this song is part of Splende (produced by Francesco Silvestre with Chikko Palmosi and Diego Calvetti). In the meantime, she looks to Spain: in particular, to Seville, where she records the duet Si tu me olvidas with Vanessa Martin and performs at the Rocio Jurado Auditorium in front of 8,000 people.

In 2016 he is still in Ariston, with global floodwhich anticipates If I had a heart (release date: May 20). Instead, the doors of Florida are opening in 2017: she is participating in the Billboard Latin Music Conference, the only Italian singer in Miami among famous international names. There, among other things, she plays “Used to You” – a play written jointly with British pop star Dua Lipa, in the English version. While “Everything for a Reason” is out, the summer hit written and sung with Benji and Fede, which – double platinum in sales and over 52 million views on YouTube – will soon also be in the top ten most played songs on Italian radio . “Success is the recognition of all the work done. Sometimes there are 50 people behind one song.”

But in the life of Annalise there is no place just for singing. “I believe in the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Godel’s incompleteness theorem: the moment you focus on one aspect, you irrevocably divert your attention from another, and to be able to describe the system well, you must be outside of it, not inside” . And so, again, he prefers openness to isolation, distancing to isolation. And after her film debut in the contemporary Christmas story “Santa Claus is not from the North” produced by Maria Grazia Cucinotta (2015), she becomes the host of “Einstein is to blame – Those from Cern” (3 episodes, Italia Uno, 2015). ), where he meets the youngest Italian masters of the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, then with Tutto Vini di Galileo (3 episodes, Italia Uno, 2016), where he interviews, among others, astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti, Paolo Nespoli, Luca Parmitano, finally, “Darwin’s Guilt” (Italia Uno, 2017): “In scientific documentaries on TV, I was able to bring out my nerd side. I love the intersection of these two worlds, art and science, which brings together a huge effort of creativity and imagination.

Amici’s mentor on Canale 5 (“I hope to be of service to the students’ little weaknesses: I had them myself”), she placed third at the 68th Sanremo Festival with the World Before You certificate, PLATINUM for sale. A ballad written with Davide Simonetta and Alessandro Raina, which he performed at an evening of duets with Michele Bravi, and actually tells a new Annaliseanticipating their sixth album (the first produced by Michele Canova), Bye bye, with whom since February 16 he meets his former self. Life direction, as the title of another single from this new record says, “arrived all together” and immediately took first place in views (millions on YouTube) and charts.

At the Sanremo Festival 2018 with The world is in front of you: “He collects my steps so far, and how they have changed me, and how I am changing them. It talks about the discovery of growing up that makes you pay more attention to what you like more than what others like. Which makes you go for deletion rather than addition. Which brings you closer to the most important thing. And to hell with always wanting me to take you seriously, to always make a good impression.”

New music course Annalise starts with a new single written by her, Danti and Michele Canova, who also took care of the artwork. “Avocado Toast”released in June 2019 and showcasing the evolution and creative growth of the singer-songwriter.

Coming out in November of the same year “Wind on the Moon”a new unreleased song written with Franco 126 and Dardust featuring Rkomi and looking forward to the new album. “naked”.

In 2021, he took part in the 71st Sanremo Festival with the song “Ten”, finishing in seventh place. Then the singles come out. “Slow motion” AND “Eva + Eva”, embellished with vocals by Federico Rossi and Rose Villain, respectively.

Summer 2022 Annalise collaborated with Boomdabash on the single Tropicanaand then in September “Beautiful”which marks the beginning of a new course.

In March 2023 it was the turn of the second single “My love”, with which he reaches the first position of Top Singles for the first time in his career. In May next year, he repeats this feat with Fedez and Article 31 with the single “Disco Paradise”.

Album out in September “And then we were in a whirlwind”accompanied by live arena events announced for April 2024, expected from November at the Assago Forum.

(last updated: August 7, 2023)