Filippa Giordano

Due to this success in Sanremo, Giordano performed at the most important events of the year, the David di Donatello Awards for the awarding of The Legend of 1900 by Giuseppe Tornatore, and on Donna sotto le stelle, a major fashion TV event.

She sang for the 25th Gold Efebo of the Italian Cinema where Ettore Scola and Gabriele Salvadores were rewarded.

Filippa Giordano (born 14 February 1974) is an Italian-born Mexican crossover singer.

Giordano was born in Palermo.

At the age of nine, she started ballet at the National Academy of Rome (where she moved with her family).

Giordano grew up in the opera world following her parents, but at the same time, she fell in love with the pop world.

She started her studies of singing with her mother as a teacher and she learned both the techniques for opera and pop music.

In September 1998, she released her first album Passioni with Italian pop producers Celso Valli (Andrea Bocelli, Eros Ramazzotti, Laura Pausini, etc.) and Marco Sabiu (Take That, Tanita Tikaram, etc.).

In February 1999, she won the 2nd prize at the Sanremo Festival.

In August 1999, she released the international version of the album Passioni called Filippa Giordano.

The record was distributed by Warner Classic UK.

Rising to the top of the classical charts, she reached gold status in Japan and in Australia.

She was the honored guest at the first edition of the British Classical Awards at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

The same year, Giordano performed on TV shows around the world, such as Parkinson and Barrymore in the UK, the NHK Music Christmas show and Music Fair in Japan and the Lottery show on NDR, Germany.

In March 2000, Giordano opened The Maria Callas Museum at the Metropolitan Theatre in New York.

In May 2000, she was invited, at the direct request of HRH Prince Charles of Britain to give a concert for His annual "Prince's Trust Gala Dinner" and, a few months later, the Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg organized a dinner at his house in her honour.

In October 2000, she won the annual edition of the "Echo Awards" in Germany in the category "Music without borders".

In January 2001, she was invited by Mohammed Al Fayed for the opening of the famous "Harrods Sales" in London, coming after names like Cher, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welch and Christina Aguilera.

In March 2001, during the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, she performed for Dino De Laurentiis, winner of the Thalberg Prize for his career.

On the same occasion, she sang accompanied by Ennio Morricone on the piano, in order to celebrate his nomination for the G. Tornatore's movie "Malena".

In July 2001, she was invited by Cristina and Riccardo Muti to hold a concert during the prestigious "Ravenna's Festival".

In Autumn 2001, she recorded the love theme of the Italian movie "Vajont" beside Andrea Bocelli, interpreter of another theme.

She was also the voice of "Aida degli alberi", an animation movie scored by M°Ennio Morricone.

In the movie, Filippa sang a duet with Mick Hucknell (Simply Red).

She is one of the artists (Pavarotti, Sting, Blondie, Dalla) to perform in the album called "Cinema Italiano", a homage to the best Italian movie melodies.

In 2002, Giordano recorded her second cd, "Il Rosso Amore", produced by Robin Smith (Tina Turner, Cher, Lionel Richie) for Brian Rawling Productions in England and by the famous Italian Orchestra arranger M° Renato Serio.

The album contains a mix of beautiful melodies and arias from the past and original songs written by great composers ( E. Morricone, D. Foster, R. Smith,C. Muti, F.Sartori, L. Quarantotto).

With the song "Amarti Si" she participated again at the Sanremo Festival this time in the "celebrities" category.

In the video of the English version "Heaven Knows" directed by Tim Rice (Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman) Filippa met Giorgio Armani, who created her new look.

In this year, Giordano posed for the main magazines such as "In Style" – UK, "Gala" – Germany appearing on the cover of "Marie Claire" as an icon of Italian fashion.

In May 2002, she sang in a duet with Frida from the legendary group "ABBA", who really wanted to sing with her after a long time of not performing.

In the same month, she met the Oscar winner Vangelis in Athens for a special interpretation of the Neapolitan song 'Torna a Surriento'.

On the occasion of her tour in Japan, she presented a new, different show surrounded by dancers with the choreography of Susanna Beltrami from "La Scala Theatre" Milan.

The tour was sold out after only one week of advance sales.

On her return to Italy, the Mayor of Palermo presented her with "The keys of the city".

For Christmas 2002, she sang at the prestigious TV Show "Natale in Vaticano", for the second time in her career, with artists like Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones, Lionel Richie etc., singing for the Pope for the third time (Jubilee 2000).

In the summer of 2003, Filippa attended a Stanislavsky Method workshop with Michael Margotta from the Actors Studio of New York.

For a special event at the University of Rome, she sang Ennio Morricone's songs conducted by his son Andrea Morricone.

After the performance, Filippa was asked by Ennio Morricone to repeat the concert at the Auditorium in Rome with him personally conducting the Orchestra.

In 2010, Giordano obtained Mexican citizenship.