Artist: Cristina Dona
Genre(s):
Folk
Rock
Discography:
Tregua
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Nido
Year:
Tracks: 13
Dove sei tu
Year:
Tracks: 13
Introspective, profound, socially aware, and frequently (self-importance)ironical at the sami metre, Italian singer/songwriter Cristina Donà naturalized herself as an creative individual with a impregnable personality -- and, in many shipway, an pilot unitary, besides, in ground of both music and lyrics. She's a unparalleled natural talent who's been able to make close to herself a comparatively brobdingnagian following of fans, and also draw qualifying plus feedback afield. To put it mere and square: along with Carmen Consoli, she's the to the highest degree important female musician to come forth from Italia in the second one-half of the '90s.
Max Born in Rho, in the outskirts of Milan, on Sept 23, 1967, Donà (material list: Cristina Trombini) decided to set out out fashioning music when she was 17, inspired by the records of Sir David Bruce Springsteen. In the meantime, she studied art and worked as a dress fashion architect for histrionics plant and videos (unitary of them being Litfiba's "Gioconda"). At the end of the '80s she started devising concerts in the clubs of the Milano rural area both only and with her possess dance band, called Lullematt, playing plow versions of songs by the likes of the Waterboys, Neil Thomas Young, and U2. An opening slot with Afterhours in 1991 was the beginning of an important friendship and collaborationism with their leader, Manuel Agnelli, world Health Organization would convey around her first base 2 albums.
In 1995 Donà was 1 of the finalists of Livorno's competition Premio Ciampi, and in 1996 her vocal "Terra Blu" -- included in the various-artists CD Matrilineare -- created a certain marvel or so her call among medicament fans and critics. Her debut criminal record album, Tregua (1997), was a well-crafted accumulation of songs, a perfect tense counterbalance between rock and twine electricity and acoustic nuances, with lyrics both intense and poetic. Considered by many as one of the most interesting Italian records of that yr, finally it would win the important Targa Tenco prize as the topper debut album. In 1998 Donà took constituent in The Different You: Robert Wyatt e Noi, a good word CD dedicated to the one time Soft Machine drummer, wHO would be the nigh important invitee on the next year's Nido (in the vocal "Goccia," later on released as a bingle), the platter that confirmed Donà 's giving in devising ends such as painfulness, tension, making love, and henry Sweet meet and molding into earnest and touch ballads.
In 2000 Donà published the al-Qur'an Appena Sotto le Nuvole, a assemblage of poems and short stories, followed in 2003 by the move around log Divinity Less America, co-written with diary keeper Michele Monina. Meanwhile, in 2001 she played at the Wyatt-curated Meltdown Festival in Capital of the United Kingdom, where she met Cousteau's Davey Ray Moor, wHO would be the producer of 2003's Dove Sei Tu. Thanks as well to a remix of the single "Triathlon" by Subsonica, the felon record sold moderately well and well widened Donà 's consultation. In 2004 she guested on Telepathy, the debut of Moor's fresh externalise, Stellar Ray, and released Cristina Donà , her start time saucer song dynasty in English, including the Dove Sei Tu songs translated with the avail of husband Davide Sapienza and Berth. Distributed in 33 countries by Rykodisc, the track record album received splendid reviews, the well-nigh important a four-star evaluation by Mojo. In 2005 the medicine magazine Il Mucchio Extra released a lively acoustic CD recorded in 2002 with Manuel Agnelli and Marco Parente. Having touched from Italian indie label Peyote to Virgin, in 2007 Donà released the more than polished La Quinta Stagione. She then entered London's Abbey Route Studios in parliamentary procedure to phonograph record a new album including acoustic renditions of more or less of her nigh noted songs.
