Cristina Scabbia

Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (born 5 June 1972) is an Italian singer.

She is one of the two vocalists of gothic metal band Lacuna Coil.

Scabbia used to write an advice column in the rock magazine Revolver, alongside musician Vinnie Paul.

Scabbia is featured in a Megadeth song "À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)".

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. (Anything But Love)" and another version of the Alter Bridge song "Watch Over You".

In 1991, Scabbia began singing professionally as a touring musician for other bands and providing backing vocals.

Later that year, she met the male vocalist Andrea Ferro and bass player Marco Coti Zelati of Lacuna Coil in Milan's Midnight club and started dating Marco after.

At the time, the band was named Ethereal, and Scabbia was asked to do vocals by Marco.

She recorded vocals on the demo tapes and was then invited to be a permanent member.

After several changes in the band's line-up, the members were reduced to Ferro, Coti Zelati and Scabbia.

The members recorded a two-track demo in May 1996, and were soon signed by the German branch of Century Media, eventually joining with the American branch of the label.

Once signed, the band changed their name to Lacuna Coil after learning that a Greek band signed to Century Media had already claimed the name Ethereal.

Adding new band members, Lacuna Coil released their first album in 1999.

Songs performed by Cristina Scabbia feature in the Dream of the Beast downloadable content (DLC) for the video game Metal: Hellsinger.

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.