Filippa Giordano is an Italian singer, songwriter, and actress. She has released six studio albums and two compilation albums, as well as a number of singles. Her music has been described as “folk-pop” and her lyrics have been praised for their poetic quality.
Filippa Giordano is an Italian actress and singer. She was born on August 25, 1968 in Rome, Italy and grew up in a family of musicians. Her father was a composer and her mother was an opera singer.
Filippa Giordano is a classically trained Italian pop vocalist who integrates operatic music into her albums. Her parents were both opera singers, her grandpa was the last of the Sicilian storytelling street singers (“cantore”), her aunt is a classical pianist, and her brother is a cellist, thus she hails from a musical family. She accompanied her parents on their travels as a youngster.
She started her musical lessons when she was five years old, but eventually decided that she wanted to be a dancer. She started learning classical dancing at Italy’s National Dance Academy when she was nine years old.
Despite her family’s operatic roots, she loves pop music, with Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, and George Michael among her favorites. She chose to pursue pop singing at the age of thirteen, inspired by Madonna [Ciccone] (an American rock singer who rose to prominence in the mid-80s), whom she regards as “… a complete artist.” Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, and Herb Miller are among those she credits as influencing her choice.
Giordano achieved significant success as a pop and rock singer (with occasional forays into soul and jazz) when she was 20 years old. She was a slim lady with fashion model looks and a sense of stage presence and movement coming from her dance training. She had bad experiences with some of the financial elements of the music industry, as do many young rising musicians, such as lavish promises for CD projects that never materialized.
Her grandpa, who had been a calming influence on her life, died around that time. He had encouraged her to work on her voice and given her recommendations for opera arias. After he left, she gave serious thought to the future of her art and profession, and she chose to include opera in her work. A professional singer, Caterina Caselli, listened to her perform and encouraged her to pursue a career as a pop soprano. As a consequence, Giordano started rigorous formal vocal lessons and dedicated a part of each day for a period of years to honing the necessary skill.
Caselli gave David Foster, a well-known arranger and producer who had worked with Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, and Barbra Streisand, a recording of Giordano singing the arias “Vissi d’arte” (from Puccini’s Tosca) and “Casta Diva” (from Bellini’s Norma). He was blown away, and he started working on an album that would combine popular songs with opera aria arrangements. He recommended her to Ennio Morricone, a well-known Italian film composer and orchestrator, who felt that she was “an artist born to sing; she is not just excellent, she is exceptional.”
The pop and opera album was started in 1998 by producers Celso Valli and Marco Sabiu and published in the summer of 2000 on Warner’s Erato label. Giordano performed the operatic numbers in a pop voice, thinking that amplification, especially in opera, is better to acoustic singing since the microphone aids in conveying the meaning of the lyrics clearly. The orchestrations were based on the originals (which included arias by Puccini, Bellini, Bizet, and Saint-Saens), but electronic elements were added for a more “modern” feel.
Following the album’s release, Giordano embarked on a typical pop tour throughout Italy, which included performances at the San Remo Festival and at Luciano Pavarotti’s International Festival 2000.
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