Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Together with Eros Ramazzotti, Adriano Celentano sings the ballad about the street in the outskirts of Milan where Celentano grew up. The street once abutted fields, but over time all the green was built on or paved over. The Via Gluck is named after the 18th century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Legendary Genoese musician Fabrizio De André sings a ballad about a fisherman who shares his bread and wine with a murderer.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Roman singer-songwriter Mirkoeilcane sings about migration, from the point of view of a seven-year old kid who just wants to play ball.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mudimbi is an Italian-Congolese rapper. “Il Mago” [The Wizard] is the song he sang at the 2018 Sanremo Festival.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Here are some great lyrics for learning Italian. The video clip is actually a song within a short, inane, comedy. Just about every Italian knows the name Gianni Morandi. He's a very famous and well-loved singer-songwriter and entertainer, and even starred in a TV series called Voglia di Volare (the desire to fly), so the song may very well be a thinly veiled reference to that show. The original song Volare is one of the most famous Italian pop songs of all time.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Lorenzo Baglioni, a Tuscan pop star, sings a tune on il congiuntivo (the subjunctive). He remarks that the subjunctive is particularly useful for lovers. Note that the Italian subjunctive, out of context, can have various different solutions in English, and sometimes doesn't correspond at all.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
"One Step Away from Me" was written by Fabio Ilacqua and arranged by Adriano Celentano and Celso Valli. Celentano and Mina sing about two lovers trapped between reason and emotion.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The song dates to 1991, when Lorenzo Jovannoti was still working as a deejay.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
As you can see from the video, Max Gazzè seems to be singing to a mannequin. The song is from the album Maximilian, and was published in 2016.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Piccolo Coro Antoniano sing a Christmas song with quotes from English and German favorites.
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