Qfourteen times – almost 15 – al San Remo Festivalbut he still doesn’t have enough. Anna Oxa61 years old, is one of the few artists who has also led the singing festival: with Goofy Baudoin 1994.
And with this year’s participation he is one of the 5 Italian artists – together with Milva, Toto Cutugno, Peppino di Capri and Al Bano – with the highest number of appearances in the competition in the singing festival (15).
And, today, the star returns to the Ariston after 12 years of absence with Saltsa piece signed by Francesco Bianconi dei Baustelle. The text tells about current society, in which now the centrality of the human being has been lostwhere “false situations” are experienced and “dignity is lacking”.
Thus the invitation to human beings, whether men or women, is “Go up, woman, go up and resurrect/Go up and return to (your) birth/Free your soul/Like swallows in the evening/Fly free”.
For the evening of duets, Anna Oxa has decided to be accompanied not by a voicebut from the violin of the Albanian composer Redi Hasa.
Anna Oxa’s participations at the Sanremo Festival
Starting from the most recent, let’s make a small summary of Anna Oxa’s holdings at San Remo Festival. The last time was in 2011 with My soul of manearlier still in 2006 with I process myself and, three years earlier – it was 2003 – she performed with I’ll change.
In 2001 she placed 10th with The eternal movementwhile two years earlier he had won the Sanremo Festival with Mercilessly.
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In 1997 he earned an excellent 2nd place with Storieswhile in 1990 a 4th place with the beautiful woman with you, its great success.
The year before – it was 1989 – he had won the Festival together with Fausto Leali with I’ll leave you. The two will also represent Italy at theEurovision Song Contestwith another duet, I wish I had, finishing in ninth place. In 1988 he brought When a love is bornwhich finished in seventh place.
In 1986 it was the turn of It’s all a momentthe year before To her and in 1984 she took the Ariston stage with I’m not going down. His first participations were in 1982, finalist with I do notwhile the very first was in 1978, an excellent 2nd place with its great success, A little emotion.
Fausto Leali and Anna Oxa singing Ti lascerò in Sanremo in 1989. (GettyImages)
Anna Oxa’s career
It seems impossible to summarize his career and life in a few lines artistic scope of a star like Anna Oxa, active in the Italian music scene for over forty years. Her voice, her looks, her beautiful songs are milestones in our history.
He begins to already sing as a child in the piano bars of her city, Bari, and at the age of 15 he recorded his first 45 rpm. Driven by Ivan Ditchesmade his debut in 1978 at the age of 17 at the Sanremo Festival with A little emotion.
He releases his first album Oxannathen the second, Anna Oxain which they also collaborate Lucio Dalla and Rino Gaetano. During her career she has released 23 albums, including two covers and two live albums, 3 official collections and 44 singles.
There were also fourteen of his participations in the Festivalbaroccurred between 1978 and 2003.
The television programs in which he took part
Anna Oxa has often participated in Television programsliterally putting himself on the line: for example, in October 2013 he accepted the invitation of Milly Carlucci to participate in the competition in the ninth edition of the Rai 1 talent show, dancing with the Starswhere she performed with Samuel Peron.
His participation, however, was immediately unfortunate: he often caused controversy for his attitude from many considered too “diva”as if it wanted to transform the program into a sort of “Anna Oxa Show“.
Rome, Auditorium of the Foro Italico: Dancing with the Stars. Participating Anna Oxa with Samuel Peron. (IPA)
One evening, after having abandoned the stage in front of a very embarrassed Milly Carluccishe returned to the scene accusing of having been verbally assaulted behind the scenes. Then, she injures a ligament dancing, lying down after a performance.
And the Codaconssaying that «those cameras they lingered for very long minutes on the Oxa on the ground and on the singer’s expressions of pain, showing viewers one unpleasant show and decidedly inappropriate», while the live broadcast continued.
The artistic collaborations of Anna Oxa
In his career he has released many albums, collaborating with artists such as Fausto Leali, Ivano Fossatthe, Lucio DallaAmedeo Minghi, Rino Gaetano, George Gabriel, Maximus Ranieri, Mario Lavezzi and Roberto Vecchioni.
Anna Oxa and Massimo Ranieri at Fantastico 10 in 1989 (Getty Images)
He has also covered several songs by Claudio Baglioni, Francesco De Gregori, Fabio Concato And Lucio Battistias well as covers of Patti Smith And John Lennon.
Love for Anna Oxa
Stormy and passionate: this was Anna Oxa’s love life, who had three marriages. The first was the one with Frank Cianian important music producer, musician and authorcelebrated when she was just twenty and which lasted from 1982 to 1989.
Ciani is the author of great successes, including the famous song I’ll leave you, sung by Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali, ed It’s all a momenttaken to the Sanremo Festival in 1986. Unfortunately, in 2020 Franco Ciani took his own lifeprobably for financial reasons.
Closed the relationship with her first husband, she lived a great love with Gianni Belleno, drummer and founder of the musical group the New Trolls. The two were together from 1989 to 1999 and the singer’s only children were born from their love, Frances and Qazim.
Anna Oxa with her second husband Gianni Belleno. (IPA)
Their story ends in 1999 and, that same year, she marries the Kosovar businessman and politician Behgjet Pacollibut the marriage ended in 2002.
«I loved her so much, but if we are no longer together it is no coincidence,” he said. “Our relationship was all-encompassing. The last time with her was her only time in her life in which I had the feeling that I couldn’t do it. Anna is a woman authoritarianwhich I didn’t like. But it wouldn’t hurt to have it president of Kosovo», he added jokingly.
In recent years, he has been in a relationship with Marco Sansonettihis bodyguard, culminating in a wedding in 2006 and lasted a couple of yearsuntil 2008, with the separation taking place the following year.
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