|
Laura Pausini |
Pausini on 22 December 2011, performing in
Milan
during her
Inedito World Tour |
|
Background information |
| Birth name |
Laura Alice Rossella Pausini |
| Born |
16 May 1974
(age 38)
Faenza,
Province of Ravenna,
Emilia–Romagna,
Italy |
| Origin |
Solarolo, Province of Ravenna, Emilia–Romagna, Italy |
|
Genres |
Pop rock,
Latin rock |
| Occupations |
Singer-songwriter,
record producer |
| Instruments |
Vocals |
| Years active |
1993–present |
|
Labels |
CGD, CGD East West,
Atlantic,
Warner |
| Associated acts |
Eros Ramazzotti,
Hélène Segara,
Andrea Bocelli,
Tiziano Ferro |
| Website |
www.laurapausini.com |
Laura Pausini,
omri (Italian pronunciation: [pauˈziːni];
born 16 May 1974) is an
Italian
pop
singer-songwriter. She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer
artists' section of the 43rd
Sanremo Music Festival with the song "La
solitudine",[1]
which became an Italian standard[2]
and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian
Musica e Dischi singles chart,[3]
as well as on the
Dutch Top 40[4]
and on the Flemish
VRT
Top 30.[5]
Her
eponymous debut album was released in Italy on 23 April 1993[6]
and later became an international success, selling two million copies
worldwide.[7]
Her second studio album,
Laura, was released in 1994 and confirmed her international
success, selling three million copies worldwide[8]
and spawning the hit singles "Strani
amori" and "Gente".
In November 1994 she released her first
Spanish language album, titled
Laura Pausini and composed of ten songs included in her previous
works. The album was certified diamond by the
Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain,[9]
making her the first non-Spanish artist to sell more than one million
copies in Spain.[10]
During her career, she won three
Latin Grammy Awards for
Best Female Pop Vocal Album, with her records
Escucha (2005),[11]
Yo
canto (2007)[12]
and
Primavera anticipada (2009).[13]
On 8 February 2006 she also became the first Italian female artist to
win a
Grammy Award,[14]
receiving the prize for
Best Latin Pop Album with Escucha.[15]
As of today, she has released ten
studio albums, an international
greatest hits album and two compilation albums released for the
Hispanic and Anglophone market only, respectively. She performs most of
her songs both in Italian and Spanish, but she has also recorded songs
in English, French and Portuguese.[16]
In 2004,
Allmusic's Jason Birchmeier considered Pausini's sales "an
impressive feat for someone who'd never really broken into the lucrative
English–language market".[17]
As of 2011, according to
Warner Music Italy, Pausini had sold more than 45 million records
worldwide,[18]
while other esteemed sales as those brought by the
RAI, affirm
that she has sold around 70 million records.[19]
Biography
Childhood and early beginnings
The elder of two daughters,[20]
Laura Pausini was born in
Faenza,
in the
Province of Ravenna,
Italy,[21]
to Fabrizio Pausini[20]
and Gianna Ballardini. She grew up in
Solarolo, a small
comune
in the same region.[22][A]
Her father is a former pianist[23]
who also played as a
sessionman for
ABBA's
Frida Lyngstad and entered a band whose members later founded the
Italian pop group
Pooh.[20]
After becoming a
piano
bar artist, he encouraged Pausini to start performing as a singer.[24]
Her first live performance was on 16 May 1985, when she sang together
with her father in a restaurant in
Bologna.[25]
Since then, her father started giving her singing lessons[26]
and she continued to perform alongside him in local piano bars. In the
meanwhile, she also started singing in a
church choir.[27]
In 1987 she recorded her first
demo album, produced by her father and released to promote her live
shows.[28]
Titled I sogni di Laura, it consisted of eight covers and five
new songs.[29]
In 1991 she participated in the Castrocaro Music Festival singing
Liza Minnelli's "New
York, New York", but she failed to reach the final stage of the
competition.[25]
During the same year, she took part in another singing competition,
Sanremo Famosi, which should have served as a selection for the
newcomers' of the following
Sanremo Music Festival.[30]
Despite being declared joint winner with another contestant,[25][30]
Pausini was not allowed to compete in the Sanremo Music Festival 1992.[25]
1993:
Career breakthrough
Thanks to her performances in local singing competitions, Pausini was
noted by Italian producer and songwriter Angelo Valsiglio, who
introduced her the manager Marco Marati.[25]
Valsiglio proposed her "La
solitudine", a song he wrote with Pietro Cremonesi and Federico
Cavalli. Pausini's rendition convinced Valsiglio and Marati, who wanted
Pausini to audition for some major labels.[25]
During one of the auditions, she met Fabrizio Giannini of
Warner Music Italy's
Compagnia Generale del Disco.[31]
After impressing him performing an unreleased
Mia Martini song, Pausini obtained her first recording contract,
becoming one of the first artists being discovered by Giannini, who
later launched the careers of several Italian acts, including
Luciano Ligabue and
Irene Grandi.[25]
"La solitudine" was selected as one of the entries of the newcomer
artists' section of the 43rd
Sanremo Music Festival. Pausini performed it for the first time on
23 February 1993, during the first semifinal of the contest.[32]
After being admitted to the final, held on 27 February 1993, she won the
competition, receiving 7,464 votes by the juries and beating
Gerardina Trovato with "Ma non ho più la mia città", who took second
place with 7,209 votes.[33]
The song also became a commercial success in Italy, peaking at number
one on the Italian
Musica e Dischi singles chart in March 1993[3]
and maintaining the top spot for three consecutive weeks,[34]
and it is still one of Pausini's best-known hits.[35]
Following the success obtained with her debut single, Pausini started
working on her first professional album,
Laura Pausini.[36]
The album was recorded while Pausini was still a high school student[37]
at the "Gaetano Ballardini" Institute of Ceramics in
Faenza,
Italy,[38]
where she got her
diploma a few months after the release of her debut studio set.[39]
Released by
CGD Records in May 1993,[22]
it reached the sixth position on the Italian Musica e Dischi
albums chart,[40]
selling 400,000 copies in Italy.[41]
The album was also promoted through an Italian outdoor tour during the
summer of 1993.[42]
In September 1993, Pausini received a
Telegatto for Revelation of the Year.[43]
In late 1993, the album was released in the rest of Europe, peaking
at number three on the
Dutch Albums Chart[44]
and reaching the top spot in Belgium.[45]
It also achieved commercial success in South America, being certified
gold in Brazil[46]
and Argentina.[47]
Worldwide sales of Pausini's debut studio album exceed two million
units.[7]
Moreover, "La solitudine" became a radio hit in Belgium and the
Netherlands,[48]
it peaked at number five on the
French Singles Chart and it reached the top spot of the
Dutch Top 40[4]
and of the Flemish
VRT
Top 30.[5]
The album also spawned the singles "Non
c'è" and "Perché
non torna più".
1994–1995: Spanish-language debut and international success
In February 1994, Pausini participated for the second time in the
Sanremo Music Festival, competing in the "Big Artists" section with her
entry "Strani
amori". The song ranked third in the competition, behind Aleandro
Baldi's "Passerà" and
Giorgio Faletti's "Signor tenente",[49]
and became a hit in Italy,[50]
in the Netherlands[51]
and in Flanders.[52]
The single launched Pausini's second studio album,
Laura, released in February 1994. According to CGD Records, the
album sold 150,000 copies in Italy in its first week, with initial
shipments of 200,000 units.[53]
It also peaked at number one on the Dutch Albums Chart and entered the
charts in Belgium and Switzerland,[54]
selling three million copies worldwide[8]
and achieving gold and platinum status in Brazil[46]
and Argentina,[47]
respectively. Other singles from the album were "Gente",
"Lui non sta con te" and "Lettera".
During the summer of 1994, Pausini took part in the Italian itinerant TV
show
Festivalbar, reaching the final stage of the music competition[55]
and receiving the Premio Europa for her international success.[56]
In 1994 she was also awarded with her second
Telegatto, receiving the prize for Best Female Artist.[57]
In the meanwhile, she started an Italian tour to promote her album.[58]
During the same year, Pausini released her first Spanish-language
album,
Laura Pausini, a compilation of ten adapted versions of hits
from her previous albums, issued by
Dro Records.[48]
The record became the best-selling album of 1994 in Spain,[59][60]
where it was later certified diamond by the
Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain for sales
exceeding one million units.[9]
Pausini was the first non-Spanish artist to achieve this result.[10]
Following the commercial success obtained in the country, the Spanish
Institute of Italian Culture awarded her a "Globo de Platino" for
contibuting in the spread of Italian culture in Spain.[61]
The album was successful in Latin America too, being certified
platinum by the
Argentine Chamber of Phonograms and Videograms Producers,[47]
the
Asociación Colombiana de Productores de Fonogramas[62]
and the Chilean division of the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.[63]
Moreover, the first four singles from the album, "La soledad", "Se fue",
"Amores extraños" and "Gente", entered the top 30 on the
Hot Latin Songs chart compiled by
Billboard.[64]
Thanks to these results, Billboard ranked Pausini the second
female revelation of 1994, after
Mariah Carey.[65][66]
In 1995 Pausini also received the
World Music Award for Best Selling Italian Recording Artist[67]
and the
Lo Nuestro Award for Best New Artist of the Year.[65][68]
Pausini's first record for the British market was a
self-titled compilation album released in 1995, including nine
Italian-language hits and an
English-language version of her first single, "La solitudine
(Loneliness)",[69]
whose lyrics were adapted by
Tim
Rice.[70]
"La solitudine (Loneliness)" was initially set to be released as a
single in the United Kingdom on 19 June 1995,[71]
but it was postponed and released in September of the same year.[72]
Both the album and the single obtained a very poor commercial reception,
failing to enter the charts in the United Kingdom.[73]
1996–1997: Third album and World Wide Tour 1997
Following the success obtained by Pausini's debut Spanish album, her
third studio set was released on 12 September 1996 both in Italian and
Spanish, under the titles
Le cose che vivi and Las cosas que vives, respectively.[74][75]
Starting from that moment, Pausini has recorded most of her songs both
in her native language and in Spanish, in a practice that, according to
Allmusic's Jason Birchmeier, has "come to define her career and
compound her success".[17]
A special edition of the album was also released in Brazil, featuring
three additional bonus tracks in
Portuguese.[75]
The album was preceded by the single "Incancellabile",
released to Italian radio stations on 26 August 1996[76]
and titled "Inolvidable" in its version for the Hispanic market. Other
singles from the album include the title-track "Le cose che vivi", whose
Spanish-language version topped the
Billboard
Latin Pop Songs chart,[77]
"Ascolta il tuo cuore", "Seamisai" and "Dos enamorados", which was not
released in its Italian-language version.
In December 1996, Pausini was among the artists singing for
Pope John Paul II during the Natale in Vaticano concert, a Christmas
show held at the
Paul VI Audience Hall.[78]
During the event, she performed a cover of
John Lennon's "Happy
Xmas (War Is Over)" and the song "Il mondo che vorrei".[79]
In February 1997 she was also invited as a guest to the
Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Chile.[80]
On 1 March 1997, she launched from
Geneva
the
World Wide Tour in support of the album, giving concerts in Italy,
Switzerland,[81]
Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal,[82]
Spain,[83]
France,[84]
as well as in the United States,[66]
Canada and many South American countries, including Venezuela, Brazil,
Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia and Messico.[84]
It was Pausini's first international tour, during which she gave
concerts in
indoor arenas for the first time.[85]
In August of the same year, during the last night of the
Festivalbar, she received the International award for the success
achieved abroad.[86]
The album sold 3,500,000 million copies worldwide[8]
and was certified Platinum by the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, for European
sales exceeding 1,000,000 copies.[87]
1998–1999: La mia risposta / Mi respuesta and second World
Tour
In 1998, Pausini released
La mia risposta / Mi respuesta, her fourth studio
album, including a song penned by
Phil Collins.[88]
The album was dubbed by music critics as a mature work, with influences
from
soul music,[88]
but was a moderate commercial success, selling two million copies
worldwide.[8]
To promote the album, Pausini began in early 1999 the
La mia risposta World Tour '99, during which she performed in
theatres throughout Europe.[89]
On 1 June 1999, she was one of the artists performing along with Italian
tenor
Luciano Pavarotti in
Modena
during his annual "Pavarotti and Friends" concert.[90]
Pavarotti and Pausini duetted in 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. The live performance was later included
in the album Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Guatemala and
Kosovo.[91]
In 1999 she also contributed the
Richard Marx composition "One
More Time" to the
Message in a Bottle soundtrack.[92]
The track was produced by
David Foster[93]
who was featured on piano.
2000–2001: Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares and
greatest hits album
In 2000, she recorded the song "The Extra Mile" for the soundtrack of
the movie
Pokémon 2000: The Power of One.[37][94]
The song was included in the album
Tra te e il mare / Entre tú y mil mares, released on
11 September 2000 and preceded by the
homonymous single, written by the Italian
pop
singer
Biagio Antonacci.[95]
The album also features the song "Viaggio con te", awarded in 2001 with
the Italian Lunezia Award for Best Songwriter of the Year.[96]
2001 saw the release of Pausini's first hits compilation both in
Italian and Spanish:
The Best of Laura Pausini: E ritorno da te / Lo mejor de Laura
Pausini: Volveré junto a ti. The first single's video, "E
ritorno da te" / "Volveré junto a ti", was filmed by Italian
film director
Gabriele Muccino.[97]
The album also includes the single "Una storia che vale" and features
guest appearances by Brazilian singer
Gilberto Gil in "Seamisai"[98]
and by Italian singer
Nek, who
plays the
bass in "Non c'è".[99]
Supported by the
2001/2002 World Tour, which started in
Miami on
19 October 2001,[98]
the greatest hits became one of Pausini's biggest commercial successes,
selling 700,000 copies in Italy and 800,000 copies in France.[100]
On 30 November 2002, Pausini released
Live 2001-2002 World Tour, her first live
DVD, filmed
during the concert she gave in
Milan on
2 December 2001.[101][102]
2002–2003: From the Inside, the English-language debut
In 2001, Pausini started working with producers such as
Patrick Leonard and
John Shanks[103]
on her first English language album,
From the Inside.[104]
Released in Canada, Mexico and the United States by
Atlantic Records on 5 November 2002, the album did not get the
expected success, selling 100,000 copies in the U.S., according to
Nielsen-Soundscan.[105]
The album singles "Surrender"
and "If That's Love" reached the top spot on the
Hot Dance Club Songs Chart,[106]
but Pausini, disappointed at her English language debut being ignored in
the U.S. outside the club scene, abandoned the promotion for From the
Inside.[107]
The album was later released in Europe too, selling 800,000 copies
worldwide.[100]
In 2003 Luciano Pavarotti invited her for the second time to the
"Pavarotti and Friends" concert, where they duetted again in "Tu che
m'hai preso il cuor".[108]
2004–2005: Resta in ascolto / Escucha and the Grammy
In October 2004 Pausini released her eight studio album,
Resta in ascolto / Escucha. Influenced by
international artists including
Phil Collins and
Celine Dion,[109]
the recording is on the subject of a break-up and was written in 2002,
during her separation from her ex-boyfriend and producer Alfredo
Cerruti.[110]
The album features the song "Mi abbandono a te" / "Me abandono a ti",
co-written by Pausini,
Rick Nowels and
Madonna. It also includes the ballad
"Vivimi" /
"Viveme", written by
Biagio Antonacci, and the single "Benedetta passione" / "Bendecida
pasión", penned by Italian
rock-star
Vasco Rossi.[111]
Well received by music critics,[112][113]
the album is mainly focused on themes of anger, bitterness,[110]
desire for independence[114]
and interior peace,[111]
but also features a song about the
Iraq
War, in which Pausini sings about
Ali Ismail Abbas, a boy who was severely injured in a nighttime
rocket attack near
Baghdad
in 2003.[115]
The album debuted at number one on the
Italian Albums Chart[116]
and sold 350,000 copies in Italy.[117]
Its Spanish version later won
Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the
Latin Grammy Awards of 2005[11]
and
Best Latin Pop Album at the
48th Grammy Awards,[15]
making Pausini the first Italian female artist to win a
Grammy Award.[14]
Pausini made a guest appearance on
Michael Bublé's 2005 live album
Caught in the Act, singing a duet with Bublé of
Lou
Rawls' hit "You'll
Never Find Another Love Like Mine". The duet was placed on both the
audio CD, and the full concert
DVD that
aired on
PBS as an episode of
Great Performances.
At the
2006 Lo Nuestro Award, Pausini was nominated in the sections Album
of the Year for Escucha, Song of the Year and Video of the Year
for "Viveme"[118]
and won the award for Best Female Pop Artist.[119]
In January 2005, Pausini started
a new tour to promote the album.[120]
The concerts she gave at the
Zénith de Paris on 22 and 23 March 2005 were filmed and released as
a
live album in November 2005, titled
Live in Paris 05.[121]
2006–2007: Io canto and the concert in San Siro
Pausini performing during the Festival Teatro-Canzone, in
memory of Italian singer
Giorgio Gaber, on 21 July 2007.
In November 2006, Pausini released the album
Io
canto / Yo canto, consisting of covers of Italian
pop
rock songs.[122]
On the album liner notes, Pausini wrote: "here is the music I listen to
when I'm at my saddest, or when I feel a moment is special, the songs I
used to sing as a young girl when I first started performing, and above
all those which taught me to love music, and how music can move you so
deeply, regardless of its genre or style".[123]
The album also features duets with
Tiziano Ferro,
Juanes
and
Johnny Hallyday.[124]
It debuted at number one on the
Italian Albums Chart and held the top spot for 8 non-consecutive
weeks.[125]
It also became the best-selling album of 2006 in Italy, selling 500,000
copies in less than two months.[126]
On 8 November 2007, the album won
Best Female Pop Vocal Album at the
Latin Grammy Awards.[12]
Laura dedicated the award to the memory of Italian tenor
Luciano Pavarotti.[127][128]
Later on during the show she sang "Vivere
(Dare to Live)" alongside Italian singer
Andrea Bocelli.[12]
In Summer 2006, Pausini played a
Juntos en concierto tour with
Marc Anthony and
Marco Antonio Solís,[129]
consisting of 20 concerts throughout the United States.[130]
On 2 June 2007, Laura Pausini was the first female artist to play at
the
San Siro Stadium in
Milan,[131]
in front of a crowd of 70,000 spectators.[132]
On 30 November 2007, the concert was released on CD and DVD, under the
title
San Siro 2007.[133]
2008–2010: Primavera in anticipo, Amiche per l'Abruzzo and
Laura Live
Pausini spent the first months of 2008 recording her tenth studio
album,
Primavera in anticipo / Primavera anticipada. The
Spanish language edition of the album was released on 11 November 2008,[134]
while the Italian language edition was released in Italy on 14 November
2008.[135]
The album was preceded by the single
"Invece no" / "En cambio no", released on 24 October 2008[136]
and promoted with an appearance in
Piazza Trinità dei Monti in
Rome on 14
November 2008.[137]
The album also features a the single
"Primavera in anticipo (It Is My Song)" / Primavera anticipada (It Is My
Song)", a duet with British singer-songwriter
James Blunt.[138]
In November 2009 the album won Best Female Album at the
Latin Grammy Awards.[13]
In 2010 Pausini also won the
Lo Nuestro Award for Female Artist of the Year.[139]
Laura Pausini during the mega-concert
Amiche per
l'Abruzzo on 21 June 2009
On 21 June 2009, Pausini organized a mega-concert in the
San Siro Stadium in
Milan,
raising money to support the victims of the
2009 L'Aquila earthquake. The concert, named Amiche per l'Abruzzo,
involved 43 Italian female singers[140]
and was later released on a
DVD, which
sold 250,000 copies in Italy.[141]
In the meanwhile, Pausini began on 5 March 2009 from
Turin the
World Tour 2009,[142]
which reached Europe in May 2009[142]
and then South America and the United States in Autumn 2009.[143][144]
The last leg of the tour took place in Italy in November 2009.[145]
A CD of the tour, along with a DVD, was released on 27 November 2009
with the title
Laura Live World Tour 09 / Laura Live Gira Mundial 09.[146]
The album also includes three new song, the singles
"Con la musica alla radio" / "Con la musica en la radio", "Non sono
lei" / "Ella no soy" and "Casomai" / "Menos mal".[146]
2011–present: Inedito, the 2012 World Tour and new DVD
On 30 December 2010, Pausini announced her eleventh studio album,[147]
Inedito / Inédito, released both in Italian and Spanish
on 11 November 2011.[148]
The title and the tracklist of the album were announced through
Pausini's website on 10 September 2011. The first single from the album,
"Benvenuto" / "Bienvenido", was released on 12 September 2011.[149][150]
In order to promote the album, Pausini engaged the
Inedito World Tour, starting with 11 shows in Italy in late December
2011.[151]
The tour reached
Latin America in January and February 2012.[152]
The European leg of her tour visited the principle arenas of France,
Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Holland, and concluded at the
Royal Albert Hall in London.[153]
The album also spawned the singles "Non
ho mai smesso"[154]
/ "Jamás abandoné",[155]
"Bastava"
/ "Bastaba",[156]
"Mi
tengo", "Le
cose che non mi aspetto" / "Las cosas que no me espero" and "Celeste".
The song "Troppo
tempo" was originally chosen as the sixth and last single of the
album, but when Pausini discovered her pregnancy she changed her mind to
"Celeste".
On 25 June 2012, Pausini took part in the mega-concert Concerto per
l'Emilia, organized to raise funds in support of the people affected by
the
2012 Northern Italy earthquakes. During the show, Pausini dueted
with
Cesare Cremonini, performing a cover of
Lucio Dalla's "L'anno che verrà".[157]
On 27 November 2012, a special edition of Inedito, in both
Italian and Spanish, was released, featuring a live DVD recorded during
the 2012 Inedito World Tour.[158]
The Italian-language version and the Spanish-language version of the DVD
were recorded in
Bologna
on 17 April 2012 and in
Madrid
on 20 April 2012, respectively. The CD included in the new edition of
Inedito also features a live medley performed by Pausini on
New Year's Eve 2012, as well as a duet with Venezuelan singer
Carlos Baute on the track "Las
cosas que no me espero", released as a single in Spain and Latin
America.
It late 2012, it has been confirmed that Pausini has recorded a duet
with
Josh Groban named "E ti prometterò", which will be included in
Groban's album
All That Echoes, to be released in February 2013.
[159]
Artistry
Laura Pausini is described as a
mezzo-soprano[160]
with a classic and powerful voice.[161][162]
Due to her voice, Pausini has been compared by music critics to various
female artists, including
Milva,[163]
Celine Dion,[164][165]
Mariah Carey[165]
and
Barbra Streisand.[166]
At the beginning of her career, she has been considered by music
critics as a
teen
idol[167]
mainly singing about adolescent love affairs and problems.[168][169][170]
She was also strongly criticized for her songs, described as too
melancholic[171]
and trivial.[172]
Starting from her 1998's La mia risposta / Mi respuesta,
Italian music critics considered her as a more mature singer[168]
and later praised her simplicity[173]
and her voice,[174]
describing Pausini as an interpreter of her years.[175]
Although Pausini is mainly a melodic pop singer,[176][177][178]
her musical style evolved during her career, with influences from
various genres, including
Latin music,[179]
soul music[10][88]
and
rock music.[180]
In 2001, David Cazares of the
South Florida Sun-Sentinel described Pausini's music as "an
assortment of glossy and sentimental pop ballads backed by light rock
instrumentation and synthesized strings".[181]
In 2006,
The Washington Post's Achy Obejas wrote that Pausini is
distinguished from other Latin pop singer by her sophistication and her
European sensibilities.[182]
According to Musica e dischi's Antonio Orlando, the key elements
in Pausini's style are romanticism, optimism, melancholy and surrounding
melodies.[183]
Starting from her 1996's album Le cose che vivi / Las cosas
que vives, Pausini has also co-wrote most of her songs[183][184]
and starting from her 1998's La mia risposta / Mi respuesta
she has been involved in the production of her albums.[185]
Personal life
Pausini left her hometown in 1995, when she moved to
Milan
with her partner, manager and producer Alfredo Cerruti Jr.[42][186]
Their relationship ended in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005 Pausini was
romantically involved with her new manager, Gabriele Parisi.[110]
She is currently engaged with the Italian guitarist, composer, music
producer and former singer Paolo Carta.[187][188]
On 15 September 2012, Pausini confirmed through her official
Facebook page that she is expecting her first daughter with her
partner Paolo Carta.[189]
Pausini describes herself as a
Roman Catholic woman,[37][190]
but expressed doubts about Roman Church's position on various themes,
including
contraception,
abortion and
premarital sex.[191]
In September 2000 she explained her position during an interview to the
Italian newspaper
la Repubblica:[37]
I believe so much in
God,
and the
Pope is the man I want to meet the most in the world. I've
known him in 1996. I just have a few doubts about the Catholic
Church, like for example the discrimination against homosexuals.
I don't understand why they condemn racism, but at the same time
they take issue with gay people.
Honours
–
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.[21]
Discography
Tours
Awards
Notes
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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.[192]
In media interviews, however, Pausini consistently names
Solarolo as her birthplace. Solarolo is located 5 miles from
Faenza.[193][194][195][196]