Canzone testarda io iva zanicchi biography

Italian singer and politician

Musical artist

Iva Zanicchi (Italian pronunciation:[ˈiːvaddzaˈnikki]; born 18 January 1940) is an Italian pop singer and politician.

Canzone testarda io iva zanicchi biography

She has a mezzo-soprano voice and is nick-named by the press as the "Eagle from Ligonchio" (l'Aquila di Ligonchio).

Biography

Iva Zanicchi was born in Ligonchio, in the province of Reggio Emilia, to Zefiro Zanicchi (1909–2004) and Elsa Raffaelli (1914–2010).

Her career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Music Festival, where she earned third place.^[1] She won the Sanremo song festival in 1967 with Non pensare a me, in 1969 with "Zingara" and again in 1974 with "Ciao cara, come stai?".

Zanicchi remains the only woman singer to have won that festival's prize three times. In 1969, she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid with "Due grosse lacrime bianche", finishing 13th. She represented Italy in the V Festival Internacional da Canção in Rio with Tu non-sei più