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Alice & Franco Battiato
12+ albums
popEurovisionitalian80sEurovision Song Contest
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Alice (pronounced [ali:tʃɛ]) a.k.a. Alice Visconti, born Carla Bissi in Forlì, Italy on September 26, 1954 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", "Chanson Egocentrique", "Prospettiva Nevski" and "Nomadi" and albums like Gioielli Rubati - Alice Canta Battiato, Park Hotel, Elisir and Il Sole Nella Pioggia charting in both Continental Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. In 1984 she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest with "I Treni Di Tozeur", a duet with longtime collaborator Franco Battiato. In her more recent career Alice has explored a diverse range of musical genres including classical, contemporary jazz, electronica and ambient and has collaborated with a large number of renowned English and American musicians. Her latest album Viaggio In Italia was released in 2003. Franco Battiato (born March 23, 1945) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter. He is considered one of the most original personalities in Italian music from the 1970s to now. Together with Alice, Franco Battiato represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 with the melody "I treni di Tozeur". Battiato's songs are dreamy, controversial collages of images and sensations, very experimental and convoluted, rich of esoteric, philoso
