Patrizia Laquidara

Sicilian-born Patrizia Laquidara grow up in the north Veneto region. In 1998 she earned a scholarship to review Italian folk music at composer Mogol’s CET college. An elegant vocalist and a separate fan and pupil of South American music, especially from Brazil, the youthful singer debuted using a tribute to Brazilian tale Caetano Veloso, Em fun??o de Você Querido Cae, in 2001. The next year Laquidara received the Critics, Greatest Performance, and Greatest Music Award on her behalf song “Agisce” in the Premio Citt? de Recanati event. In 2003 she repeated the feat at the brand new artists’ portion of the San Remo Event, winning Best Track and Best Overall performance for “Lividi e Fiori.” She also released her second recording, Indirizzo Portoghese, this time around featuring original materials sung in Italian, and stellar collaborations from guests such as for example Fausto Mesolella from Avion Travel, Javier Girotto from Aires Tango, Tony Canto from Arancia Sonora, and vocalist Mario Venuti, with whom she stocks a duet for the strike “Per Causa d’Amore.” In 2005 Laquidara had written with film composer Paolo Buonvino “Noite e Luar,” the primary monitor for Giovanni Veronesi’s Manuale d’Amore. The film became the Italian blockbuster of the entire year, and its tune, sung in Portuguese, cemented Laquidara’s popularity as a complicated, cosmopolitan vocalist/songwriter not really unlike her contemporaries Carla Bruni or Carmen Consoli, but using a sensual South American twist — a disposition that Laquidara’s languorous beauty just accentuates. In 2007 she released her third record, Funambola, documented in the U.S. and made by Arto Lindsay.