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5 In 1997 you won the 2nd Award in one of the most important national competitions, “Festival
of Castrocaro” on the national TV program RAI UNO, performing an original song “Anni bui”.
Why has this become such a legendary moment in your career?

Well, it was the first time I could sing in one of the most followed TV programs in Italy. And at that
young age it is a great honor and blessing, especially because I remember as if it was today when I
received the compliments and the congratulations by the most famous tenor in the world Maestro
Luciano Pavarotti. In his opinion I would have had a very brilliant career thanks to the peculiarity, the
extension and power of my voice.

In 2012, you started collaborating with other artists and authors internationally,
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including Nico Adams, with whom you wrote "True Light". What other opportunities

has this opened up for you?

It was a great opportunity to know
American producers, to know Tom
Coyne at the Sterling Sound Studio
of New York who decided to master
my song, and to interact with so
many professionals in the United
States of America.

7 You have also published your
first album "Carmen Corona"
with Sony Music, one of the

biggest labels in America and
internationally. In the album
you covered some top hits by
legendary artists. Why did you
choose to cover these
particular songs and include
them in the album?
My producer, at that time, maestro
Giampiero Artegiani, believed in me

and in my talent. And he thought,
since I could speak English fluently
(but also other languages such as
French, German and Spanish) that I
could sing some hits like Memory by
Barbra Streisand, or Knocking on the
heaven's door by Bob Dylan, 'cause in
his opinion my voice was very similar

to the voice of Joan Baez in particular
the "vibrato".