WAlice, also known as Alice Visconti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since 1971. Alice had her breakthrough after winning the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Per Elisa" in 1981, followed by European hit singles like "Una notte speciale", "Messaggio", "Chan-son Egocentrique", "Prospettiva Nevski" and "Nomadi" and albums like Gioielli rubati, Park Hotel, Elisir and Il sole nella pioggia charting in Continental Europe, Scandinavia and Japan.
WRomina Arena is an Italian-American popera, operatic pop, pop classical crossover, rock opera and new-age singer-songwriter.
WVeronica Atzei – better known by her stage name Bianca Atzei – is an Italian singer and TV personality.
WEMAYLA, also known as Emanuela Bellezza is an Italian-American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, who gained popularity with her original music, after appearing on television networks MTV Très, Univision, RAI, Telefutura and TV Azteca. In 2012, she won a nationwide contest by MTV Très and was chosen by Colombian singer Juanes to sing a duet with him for inclusion on the Deluxe Edition of his album Juanes MTV Unplugged. Emayla won the contest by performing a cover of Juanes' song Fotografia. The album won a Grammy in 2013 as Best Latin Pop Album category. It also won two Latin Grammys: Album of The Year and Best Long Form Music Video. The video of their performance counts over a million and a half views on YouTube. As a result of these achievements, Emayla's song titled Ella Se Va was played in different main radios in Venezuela and reached the top 40 national music charts in the same country.
WValentina Lombardi, known professionally as Valentina Blú, is an Italian-born singer, songwriter and music producer. Her song "Another Sky" won best World Beat song at the 15th edition of the Independent Music Awards (2016), and both the Grand Prize and Lennon Award at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the World Music category (2017).
WLaura Bono is an Italian pop-rock singer-songwriter.
WMatilde De Rubertis, known professionally as Matilde Davoli, is an Italian indie-pop songwriter, producer and sound engineer.
WEmanuela Trane, better known by her stage name Dolcenera [ˌdoltʃeˈneːra], is an Italian singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in 2003, after winning the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival, but she achieved commercial success in Italy only in 2005, when she won the music-based reality show Music Farm and she released her second album, Un mondo perfetto. In 2005 she was also awarded Best New Artist of the Year at the Italian Meeting of Independent Record Labels and she received the De André Award for Best Emerging Artist.
WCristina Donà is an Italian singer and songwriter.
WElisa Toffoli , performing under the mononym Elisa, is an Italian singer-songwriter. She is one of few Italian musicians to write and record mainly in English. She draws inspiration from many genres such as pop, alternative rock, electronica and trip hop. In Europe she is perhaps most recognised for the single "Come Speak to Me", while American audiences may recognise the song "Dancing" as featured in both the 2006 and 2007 seasons of So You Think You Can Dance. On December 18, 2012, her collaboration with Ennio Morricone, "Ancora qui", was featured on Quentin Tarantino's film, Django Unchained and its soundtrack album, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
WLoredana Errore is a Romanian-born Italian singer-songwriter. After participating in various singing competitions, she officially debuted in 2009 at the ninth edition of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi, eventually reaching the finals and finishing in second place.
WIrene Fornaciari is an Italian singer-songwriter.
WGiovanna Nocetti, best known just as Giovanna, is an Italian singer, record producer and songwriter, mainly successful in the 1970s.
WGiorgia Gueglio is an Italian singer and founding member of the heavy metal band Mastercastle.
WPatrizia Laquidara is an Italian singer.
WClaudia Lagona, better known by her stage name Levante, is an Italian singer-songwriter, novel writer and model. She rose in fame in the 2010s, publishing four albums and several media success singles and collaborations, reaching the top ten in Italian Albums Chart three times. She wrote songs for many italian artists and collaborated with Gianni Morandi, Irene Grandi, Max Gazzè, The Kolors, J-Ax, Tiziano Ferro and Carmen Consoli.
WNoemi is an Italian singer-songwriter. In 2013, she became a coach in The Voice of Italy. She has sold over 735,000 records in Italy.
WGiuni Russo was an Italian singer-songwriter who specialised in experimental music after a short successful stint as art-pop singer in the early 1980s. During her career she sang in Italian, English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, and Latin.
WCristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia is an Italian singer and songwriter, best known as one of the two vocalists of gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. She used to write an advice column in the popular rock magazine Revolver, alongside musician Vinnie Paul. Scabbia is featured in a Megadeth song "À Tout le Monde ". She also featured on "The Theory of Everything", an album from Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon project, with which she is cast as the Mother. She is also the featured artist in the Apocalyptica song "S.O.S. " and another version of the Alter Bridge song "Watch Over You". Her highest note ever hit is claimed to be an A7. Scabbia performed a duet with the Italian ex-singer of Linea 77 Emiliano Audisio on the track "Beautiful Lie" to be part of the soundtrack for the 2013 Italian film Passione sinistra.
WIvana Spagna, known mononymously as Spagna, is an Italian singer and songwriter.
WPaola Turci, is an Italian singer, songwriter, performer and author.
WMargherita Vicario is an Italian singer-songwriter and actress.
WMaria Chiara Fraschetta, better known by her stage name Nina Zilli, is an Italian singer-songwriter. After releasing her debut single "50mila", she achieved commercial success with the album Sempre lontano, released after participating in the newcomers' section of the Sanremo Music Festival 2010. During the Sanremo Music Festival 2012, Zilli was chosen to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan, where she placed 9th with the song "L'amore è femmina ", included in her second studio album. Zilli returned to the Sanremo Music Festival in 2015, and competed with the song "Sola" from her upcoming album, Frasi&Fumo. She was also a judge of Italia's Got Talent from 2015 to 2017.