Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
With its soft-toned accompaniment and gentle lyrics, "Il regalo più grande" ("The Greatest Gift") sung by Tiziano Ferro, creates a special mood. It was released as a single in 2009 and in that year became fifth on the list of best-selling songs.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
"Rosso Relativo" ("Relative Red") is one of Tiziano Ferro's greatest hits, and is the title song from his 2002 album. He uses an interesting series of verbs in the imperfetto, a tense that doesn't always match up with one tense in English. It's all relative!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tiziano Crudeli is a journalist and a talking head. He's a big supporter of his beloved Milan team, and he often announces the games on television. In this video, in fact, we see him as a wild fan of the club.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Tiromancino is a famous pop band from Rome, and this is a song from their self-titled album. Federico Zampaglione, the lead singer, vocalizes about remorse and how it’s best avoided.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The song “L’inquietudine di esistere” [The anxiety of existing] is a new song by the group Tiromancino. The lyrics were written by Fabrizio Tarducci and Federico Zampaglione. Zampaglione also wrote the music.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
In this video provided from PA 74 Music, Stefania Bianconi, a successful young artist, sings “Prendimi l’anima” (Take My Soul) as a finalist at the Modena Videofestival 2009.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The poignant text of this song was inspired by the singer-songwriter's experience as a volunteer in a mental institution in Rome and meant to create awareness of the reality of mental illness. It is sung from the point of view of someone who had been deemed insane and shut into a manicomio (insane asylum) for most of his life.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Silvia Swing is Silvia De Santis's stage name. She sings “Noi” (Us), a love song dedicated not only to her beloved, but also to her friends. They're always there to provide support, understanding, and comfort. Video provided by PA 74 Music.
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
Samuele Bersani relives the past when he was still a pre-teen, starting to have secret thoughts. The video contains plenty of illustrations of the words he is singing.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Cos'è normale (What's normal?) is a song by Danilo Pao and Enrico Sognato, that questions what "normal" means in terms of how people live their lives. It's presented here in a music video where the camera, placed on the dashboard of different cars, captures the faces of the drivers and passengers, some of whom are members of the group Zero Assoluto, Salvatore Gioia, and the composers, who are singing the song.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The song dates to 1991, when Lorenzo Jovannoti was still working as a deejay.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Roman
Pappa e Ciccia, song from the album "Alla Rovescia" by Radici nel Cemento, talks about a couple who are just that, "Pappa e Ciccia"--meaning they go "hand in glove". Literally, pappa means mush but is often used to mean food and ciccia is fat or gristle, but is often used to mean meat.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy Roman
The Radici nel Cemento [Roots in Concrete] are an Italian reggae group from Fiumicino (Rome), who appeared on the Italian reggae scene in 1993. Alla rovescia [Upside-down] is the title song of the album released in 2001 and tells of a world that spins backwards. Everything is the opposite of the way it should be in real life.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Premio d’Aponte 2008 – Pilar sings “Attesa” [Waiting], a song that speaks of silence, the night and her solitude.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The Piccolo Coro Antoniano sing a Christmas song with quotes from English and German favorites.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The song “Attraversami il cuore” [Cross Over My Heart] was written by the selfsame Paola Turci, together with Marcello Murru, and is the title song of the singer’s latest album.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Paola Turci first sang "Bambini" at the 1989 Sanremo Festival. The song is an indictment of child exploitation and an atypical song for Sanremo. She's joined by Marina Rei in this video.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
You'll want to sing along with Nina Zulli as she cries her heart out in "Cinquantamila lacrime" ("Fifty-Thousand Tears"), a hit song from 2009, made even more famous as the theme song from a 2010 film by Ferzan Özpetek, Mine vaganti (English title, Loose Cannons). Great lyrics, great melody, great rhythm!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
The smash hit, "Laura non c'è" (Laura isn't here) was sung by Nek at the Sanremo Festival in 1997 and is featured on the album, Lei, gli amici e tutto il resto (Her, my friends, and everything else). The song became famous all over the world, making Nek one of the best loved Italian singers abroad.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
"Saturno Contro" is the theme song for the 2007 film with the same name. The video features Neffa, the singer-songwriter, and the film's cast.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Italy
Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano on the Bay of Naples, in Campania, Italy, just inland from the coast of the Gulf of Naples. Vesuvius is about 1281 meters high and is well worth visiting. The beautiful song “Incontri (Dimmi quand’è)” (Encounters – Tell Me When) sung by Enrico Ruggeri accompanies us on this journey. The video is kindly provided by PupiaTv.
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
"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.
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