Laura is Italian singer Laura Pausini’s second studio album released by CGD (Warner) Records in 1994.

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Artist/Band Information

Laura Alice Rossella Pausini better known as Laura Pausini (), , (born 16 May 1974, Solarolo, Province of Ravenna, Italy)

Biography

Laura is the elder of two daughters born to Fabrizio Pausini and Gianna Ballardini.Worden, Mark. "Italy's multilingual star serenades the world", Billboard 115.11 (2003): 43. Alluding to Pausini's autobiographical track "Viaggio con te" (2000), Valentina Khalife of Miami New Times affirms, "Playful strings suggest that the singer grew up happily with the help of her father's love".Khalife, Valentina. "", Miami New Times, 11 January 2001. She started to sing in local piano bars with her father Fabrizio, a musician and singer, when she was only eight years old. At the age of thirteen, Laura had her first recording experience with the album I sogni di Laura (Laura's Dreams), a semi-professional release produced by her father in 1987. In 1993 her career was launched when she won the prestigious Italian Sanremo Music Festival with one of her best known songs, "La solitudine".

As a natural consequence, she signed a contract with Warner Music Italy to release her first professional album, Laura Pausini (1993), which was a big success in Italy, France, as well as in The Netherlands. Her second album, Laura, was released in 1994 and was such a big hit that her recording company offered her a deal to record in Spanish.

At the end of 1994, Pausini released her first Spanish album, Laura Pausini, a compilation of ten adapted versions of hits from her first two Italian albums. The album was so successful that it made her a household name in the Spanish-speaking world. Her song "Se fue" was one of the most played songs of 1995 according to the Hot Latin Tracks chart of Billboard.

Following this success, Pausini simultaneously released Spanish editions of her native Italian language albums: Le cose che vivi (1996), La mia risposta (1998) and Tra te e il mare (2000), were released in Spain and Latin America as Las cosas que vives, Mi respuesta and Entre tú y mil mares, respectively. She also recorded three bonus tracks in Portuguese for a special edition of her album Le cose che vivi in 1996.

The first English language recording made by Pausini was of her Italian language hit "La solitudine" rendered by lyricist Tim Rice as "The Loneliness" for a UK single release of 19 June 1995 which was overlooked. In 1999 she contributed the Richard Marx composition "One More Time" to the Message in a Bottle soundtrack; the track was produced by David Foster who was featured on piano. Also in 1999, famed Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti invited Pausini to his annual "Pavarotti and Friends" concert, and the two of them sang the Italian version of the aria Dein ist mein ganzes Herz, titled Tu che m'hai preso il cuor, from Franz Lehár's operetta Das Land des Lächelns. In 2000, she recorded the song "The Extra Mile" for the soundtrack of the movie Pokémon 2000: The Power of One.

LauraPausini.jpgthumbleft170pxLaura Pausini at Barcelona's El Corte Inglés–Portal de l'Àngel Escucha record promotion event, 28 October 2004

Pausini's first English album, From the Inside, was released by Atlantic Records on 5 November 2002; producers included Patrick Leonard and John Shanks. The first single "Surrender" became a U.S. disco hit reaching #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in Billboard but - despite extensive promotion by Pausini - the track did not accrue support from U.S. radio. "Surrender" did become a Top Ten hit in Canada - radio there supporting the track due to its having a Cancon qualifying songwriting credit - and the track returned Pausini to the charts in several European nations reaching #7 in Italy but for the most part occasioning a dip in her popularity. The album's second single: "If That's Love" reached #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in the spring of 2003; Pausini at the time was on a promotional junket to the UK which included a TOTP performance of "Surrender", and - disappointed at her English language debut being ignored in the U.S. outside the club scene - she abandoned promotion for From the Inside. The album's global sales are estimated at 800,000 units with the U.S. tally a disappointing 100,000.

2001 saw the release of Pausini's first hits compilation both in Italian and Spanish: The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te and Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti. In 2003 Luciano Pavarotti again invited her to the "Pavarotti and Friends" concert and once more they sang Tu che m'hai preso il cuor. In 2004 she released Resta in ascolto. The Spanish version of this album, Escucha, awarded Pausini a Latin Grammy in 2005 and a Grammy in 2006. This made her the first Italian female to receive such honors. The song "Víveme" was featured as the theme music to La Madrastra, a popular Mexican telenovela, in which she had a memorable cameo appearance.

About her album Io canto (Italian for 'I sing') she has said: "I chose the music I listen to, in sad moments as well as in other, more special ones, those tunes that have taught me how to feel, how to love music beyond genres and styles."La Vanguardia Magazine, Barcelona, 24 December 2006, page 20. On 2 June 2007, Laura Pausini was the first female artist to play at the San Siro Stadium in Milan, Italy in front of a crowd of 70,000 spectators. Later that year the concert was released on CD and DVD and became very successful in Italy and Spain.

On 8 November 2007, Laura won a Latin Grammy Award for the best female album with 'Yo Canto', the Spanish version of the album 'Io Canto'. Laura dedicated the award to the memory of Italian legend Luciano Pavarotti. Later on during the show she sang songs from her album 'Yo Canto' alongside Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.

In 2008 Laura spent most of her time in the studio, recording another new album. Her tenth studio album called Primavera in anticipo was first released in its Spanish language edition Primavera Anticipada on 11 November 2008 in the hispanophone market, then was released in the Italian language edition in Italy on 14 November 2008. The international version of the album was released on 18 November in Spain, Portugal, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Turkey, Malta and other European countries. On 1 December 2008, the album was released in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela. In 2009, Laura Pausini began a new World tour, starting in Italy and across Europe, then to North America and South America.

In November 2009 she won her third Latin Grammy Award for best female album with "Primavera anticipada", in 2010 she won her third Lo Nuestro Award for "Female artist of the year," becoming one of the best selling Latin artist of all time.

As of 22 August 2010, Pausini announced, on her official fan club site Laura 4U, the name of her new producer, Riccardo Benini, who worked with Juanes, Miguel Bosé, Eros Ramazotti and others. She also confirmed that her new album will be coming in Christmas 2011. It is also rumoured that a particular fan party (which has been noticed on Pausini's official Twitter, Facebook and fan club) will be recorded and released as a DVD. Its name is supposed to be 4U.

Awards

;Billboard Latin Music Awards

*2006: Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, Female – "Víveme"

;Grammy Awards

*2006: Best Latin Pop Album – Escucha

;Latin Grammy Awards

*2005: Best Female Pop Vocal Album – Escucha

*2007: Best Female Pop Vocal Album – Yo Canto

*2009: Best Female Pop Vocal Album – Primavera Anticipada

;Premio Lo Nuestro

*1995: Best New Pop Artist

*2006: Best Female Pop Artist

*2010: Best Female Pop Artist

;World Music Awards

*1994: Best-Selling Italian Artist

*1995: Best-Selling Italian Artist

*2003: Best-Selling Italian Artist

*2007: Best-Selling Italian Artist

*2010: Best-Selling Italian Artist

;ASCAP Latin Music Awards

*2002: Best pop ballad - "Volveré junto a ti"

*2006: Best pop ballad - "Viveme"

*2006: Best theme from a soap opera - "Viveme"

*2007: Best pop ballad - "Como si no nos hubieramos amado"

*2010: Best pop ballad - "En cambio no"

;Platinum Europe Award

*1996: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "Laura Pausini"

*1996: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "Laura"

*1997: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "Le cose che vivi"

*2002: In recognition of European sales in excess of 1 million for the album "The best of Laura Pausini"

;Wind Music Awards

*2007: One award for the CD Io Canto

*2008: Two awards for the CD and DVD of the San Siro concert

*2009: One award for the CD Primavera in anticipo

Honours

Commendatore OMRI BAR.svg100px - Commander Order of Merit of the Italian Republic: Awarded the fourth highest civil honor in Italy, by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on 6 February 2006.

Discography

;Studio albums

*1993: Laura Pausini

*1994: Laura

*1994: Laura Pausini (Spanish)

*1996: Le cose che vivi / Las cosas que vives

*1998: La mia risposta / Mi respuesta

*2000: Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares

*2001: From the Inside

*2004: Resta in ascolto / Escucha

*2006: Io canto / Yo canto

*2008: Primavera in anticipo / Primavera anticipada

;Compilation albums

*1995: Laura Pausini (Italian-only compilation)

*2001: The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te / Lo mejor de Laura Pausini: Volveré junto a ti

;Live albums

*2001: World Tour 2001-2002

*2005: Live in Paris 05

*2007: San Siro 2007

*2009: Laura Live World Tour 09 / Laura Live Gira Mundial 09

;Other albums

*1987: I sogni di Laura

*2010: Amiche per L'Abruzzo

Tour

*1997: World Wide Tour 1997

*1999: World Tour 1999

*2001–2002: World Tour 2001–2002

*2005: World Tour 2005

*2006: Juntos en Concierto Tour 2006

*2007: San Siro live

*2009: World Tour 2009

Notes

Sources indicate different locations for Pausini's birth—The Comunes of Faenza and Solarolo, Ravenna, Italy. One state source, The Presidency of the Italian Republic, cites Faenza as the location of her birth. Italy. Presidency of the Republic. "", Presidenza della Repubblica, February 2006. In media interviews, however, Pausini consistently names Solarolo as her birthplace.Bottomley, Charles. "", VH1.com, 22 November 2002. EFE. "", El Mercurio , 31 August 2000. Pausini, Laura. Interview. Nadie se duerma, Host Beto Ortiz, Frecuencia Latina , 2 November 2001. Pausini, Laura. Interview. Las hijas, Hosts Monserrat Olivier and Yolanda Andrade, Unicable , 27 January 2007.

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