Grazia di Michele biography
Grazia Di Michele was born on 9 October 1955 in Rome. In the 1970s he founded, together with Clelia Labuschagne and Clare Scotti, the inspirational band Glass Beepolicy: during that time has committed songs on topical issues such as abortion, and performed throughout Italy. In 1977 Grazia Di Michele sings for the first time as a soloist at the "Folkstudio", and stands out immediately for the expressiveness and uniqueness of his voice. During that time, he also worked in radio as a disk jockey and a cultural Club, the "Johann Sebastian Bar" in Rome, a place where Rai head artists first steps in television.
The first records
In 1978 he recorded his first album, titled "Cliché" and produced by Vincenzo Micocci, which stands for socially committed themes, often in line with feminism. Five years later dates "reasons from the heart" album is lighter and more mature, in which no shortage of sensitive issues (the title track, for example, deals with the story of a love between two women, and is the first song in Italy that talks about this topic). In 1986 affect "Gauguin's girls", which contains the single of the same name and which allows it to get the prize "Silver sail"; the following year's reissue includes the song "Sha-la-la", which is also proposed to "Festivalbar". In 1988 Grazia Di Michele gives prints "love is a danger," disk where works-among others-with Lucio Fabbri, Vittorio Cosma and Eugenio Finardi: the lead single is "only fools know how to love", which participates in the "Cantagiro".Gli anni ' 90
In 1990 debuted at the "Sanremo Festival" with the song "me and my father," which is interpreted-on the evening of foreign artists-from Nicolette Larson. After publishing the collection "collection", returns to San Remo in 1991 with "if I were a man," which author Pamela Nocera: the piece is translated in English and starring Randy Crawford with the title "If I were in your shoes," getting a great success in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland and Norway in. Later the Roman artist gives published the album "Grazia Di Michele", then take part in "Sapore di mare", broadcast on Channel 5 broadcast in which he performs with "La canzone di Marinella" and "La canzone del sole". In 1993 is back to Ariston: playing with Rossana Casale sings "Gli amori diversi", which is part of the album "Boundaries" (involving Cristiano De André and Eugenio Finardi). While Warner Music Vision publishes a VHS with all his music videos, some of whom shot even by Gabriele Salvatores, Grace went to work for his next album, published by Sony and entitled "Rudji": the association with the label, however, it stops almost immediately, due to a promotion deemed insufficient.The years 2000
In 2001, therefore, the Roman artist releases for an independent label on his new album, "Natural", where among other things a Duet with Eva M. After graduating with a degree in music therapy, dealing with numerous conferences on the subject, Grazia Di Michele is leading a tour in Italy with Calvert and another tour with Toquinho.Television Fame "friends"
In 2003 she joined the cast of "Friends," talent show hosted by Maria De Filippi broadcast on Channel 5 where is recruited as a singing teacher.Music, books, theater, and culture
After the publication of "the strings of the soul" book published by Bastogi dedicated to his life and edited by Valeria Festa and Barbara Mengozzi during its twenty-five year career, in 2004 Grace teamed up with Maria Rosaria Omaggio in theater in the play "Chiamalavita", from which is extracted the eponymous cd. In 2005 he published the album "breath", preceded by "Habi" single rock that told the story of a young suicide bomber. Attend the Rome 2005 Literature Festival with a recital of theatre involving Sandra Cisneros and Susanna Tamaro, in 2007 Grazia Di Michele gets a special mention at Premio Lunezia thanks to disk "breath" for his musical-literary "value"; In addition, he won the LuccAutori Prize for literature for his work as a composer (with a special reference to "breath") and presents the Festival of Saint Vincent. The next year is a play with "tell my daughter that I'm on vacation," play by Denise Chalem directed by Magdalene Fahad, which tells the story of two women inmates sharing the same prison: the show is replicated at Theatre Two of Rome for a whole month. In 2009 Grace recorded album "secret passages", which contains among other things the song "the right to love", inspired by the recent theatrical experience. At that time, contributes to the project by Alberto Zainab "Cape Verde terra d'amore" with two songs. In 2010, however, the song "seventh heaven", Anja present in "secret passages", was nominated for the prize to Amnesty.The years 2010
After having appeared in Paolo di Sabatino "Voices" with the song "Francis" and have been awarded the 2011, 2012 Cultural Mumi Grazia Di Michele you see award Cantagiro "musical moments" with the contribution to Italian music and discovering new talents; Meanwhile works in the album "Giverny", which is presented with the "Giverny Tour" and is inspired by art by Claude Monet. In 2014 Grazia Di Michele was awarded Giuni Russo in Alghero, Sardinia; on 14 December of that year was made known that the Roman singer will be among the 20 competitors in the category Big del Festival di Sanremo 2015: on the stage of the Ariston will sing together with Platinette "I'm a window".Article contributed by the team of collaborators.