Musica Italiana

Musica italiana: “L’appuntamento” by Ornella Vanoni

I’m getting ready for my trip to the beautiful Italian Dolomites at the moment. I’ll be gone for three weeks, and I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to post during that time, so I wanted to do a quick Musica Italiana post before I go. And this song certainly gets me in the mood [...]

Italian Culture

Musica Italiana: Laura Pausini

In this post, we’ll look at a couple of songs by Italian artist Laura Pausini. Laura comes from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and has been called the “Queen of Italian pop.” She has recorded music in five different languages (Italian, Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese) and she has sold over 45 million records.
Glenn, who [...]

Italian Culture

Musica Italiana: “Evidentemente” by Negramaro

As I mentioned in my last post, I want to start a series of posts looking at songs by Italian artists, and this is the first post in the series. The goals are to help people discover these great Italian songs and to help people learn Italian in a fun and entertaining way. I will [...]

Italian Culture

Popular Italian Music, old & new: Adriano Celentano and Negramaro

Through my journey of learning Italian, I have discovered some Italian musicians that I absolutely love, and I want to share two of my favorites here. Following these artists and studying their lyrics has been an enormous help in my learning Italian. My goal is to start a regular series of posts where I share [...]