Naif Hérin is an award-winning singer, songwriter, bassist, pianist, and guitarist. Originally from Valle d'Aosta, Italy, Naif has released five CDs in Italian and French and recently recorded with CarbonWorks, a diverse group of musicians from different countries.

Mudimbi is an Italian-Congolese rapper. “Il Mago” [The Wizard] is the song he sang at the 2018 Sanremo Festival.

The video is filmed in Rome and shows some of the best-loved fountains and monuments.

Three greats: Ferzan Özpetek directed this video. Mina and Celentano, two singers beloved by Italians, get together on this song all about love.

"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.

The incomparable Mina sings a Lucio Battisti - Mogol love song.

Ferzan Özpetek directed this video of images from his movie La Dea Fortuna, for which the song "Luna Diamante" (diamond moon) is part of the soundtrack. The song was written by Ivano Fossati and sung by Mina.

There are various interpretations of this famous song sung by Mina. What or whom does il corvo (the crow) represent? A judge? A priest? An agent? Whoever is seen as an ugly black crow has the power but lacks wisdom.

Michele Zarrillo sings L'elefante e la farfalla [The Elephant and the Butterfly] at Rome's Auditorium in 2014. It was in 1996 that Zarrillo first sang this beautiful ballad.

This song is one side of a phone call made to someone after meeting her at a party. But is there anyone on the other end?

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.

Massimo Ranieri has never stopped being popular in Italy. Here he sings a song about a man who thought he had found love, but then lost it.

Marco Mengoni was greatly influenced by Muhammad Ali, by his stand on religious and racial freedom, as well as by his physical and mental courage in the ring. This song makes the connection.

Måneskin is a band with four musicians who began playing together as students at the J.F. Kennedy High School in Rome. Their participation on X Factor brought about their phenomenal success. The band's name Måneskin means moonshine in Danish, and was a word that Victoria de Angelis, the bassist, knew from her Danish ancestry.

Lucio Dalla and Francesco De Gregori perform the song that was originally titled “Gesù Bambino” [Christ Child] but was changed to Dalla's date of birth after censure from the Sanremo music festival.