Italy music playlist

The Big Night soundtrack (This was a big hit compilation in my record store days).
Andrea Bocelli. Romanza
Paolo Conte (similar to Serge He is in Venice June 30)
https://www.amazon.com/Paolo-Conte/dp/B000006R56/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1497491571&sr=1-3&keywords=Paolo+conte

http://www.paoloconteofficial.com/#!/pages/events-list

Dean Martins Italian Songs
https://www.amazon.com/Sings-Italian-Favorites-Dean-Martin/dp/B00B2M7CQU

Oh yeah this company was big when there were cd stores; they had their pulse on classic and contemporary music from countries around the world You just search for Italian theme compilations
https://putumayo.bandcamp.com/

Jovanotti, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini, Zucchero, Daniele Silvestri, Eros Ramazzotti, Nek, Mina, Giusy Ferreri, Pino Daniele. You also hear a lot of Spanish pop in Italy, as well as R&B and electronic acts like Daft Punk.

You guys are great! I loved Big Night! Great suggestion! Will send all these other to my husband to download. Can't wait to be there.

Yeah I worked in record stores for 15 years Tower Virgin Borders

The singers suggested by apaonita are all Italian pop singers of today (many of whom I really like). If you're looking for more nostalgic Italian music, I can recommend "Putumayo Presents: Italian Cafe", available on CD via Amazon. A bunch of the tunes from that CD can be found on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2F3A17DB6BC4A9A6

Il Volo, Massimo Ranieri, Al Bano, Adriano Celentano. Enrico Caruso.

The best 100 Italian Albums according to a 2012 article in the Rolling Stone magazine:

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_dei_100_migliori_album_italiani_secondo_Rolling_Stone

I know it's a 5 year old list, but still more updated than Zoe's. Are you trying to date yourself Zoe? With all those 1960-1970's icons? Than God you at least mentioned Il Volo.

Hey, Roberto, just trying to add some balance and perhaps a little historical perspective! "Icon" is the key. Don't you think Mina is timeless?

Thanks for the chuckle. And no, I never saw Caruso perform live. 😉

I also like having a playlist of Italian music, and try to have a good selection of different genres (rock, opera) and different eras. Some you could look at.....

• Older singers with Italian background like Jerry Vale, Connie Frances, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett.
• This is a special one that I always enjoy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zghquyoOZ0 (this song was written by Lucio Dalla as I recall - you should be able to find it online)
• Opera: Pavarotti, Bocelli, Three Tenors - you could also listen to the music on the Andrie Rieu Tuscany concert, as there's an excellent performance of O Mio Babbino Caro on that.
• More modern: Eros Ramazotti, Anna Tatangelo, Laura Pausini, Gianni Morandi, Lucio Dalla, Gigi D'Alessio.
• Andrea Bocelli Love in Portofino has some great music (the concert is shown on PBS every so often) - https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/andrea-bocelli-love-in-portofino-cddvd/6000137024275 . Here's the title song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWP9Nv6DUsg . The album also has at least one song in French which through clever mixing he sings as a duet with Edith Piaf, and also some of the Brazilian songs of the type made famous by Antônio Carlos Jobim from the '60s, which Bocelli sings in Portugese (ie: Corcovado).
• This is another Bocelli classic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_yCwFD6Jo

There's lots of good music out there!

Eurovision songs:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest

I guess I lean toward the modern. Eros, Jovanotti, ecc., are all part of my soundtrack when I'm driving around near our place in Perugia. (So are Daft Punk and new soul singers like Mayer Hawthorne and Leon Bridges.) You should download the Radio Subasio app onto your phone, or listen online. It will give you an idea of what's the ambient sound in Italy these days. Italians aren't particularly nostalgic, especially those under 40, and while we have lots of ancient cities and old buildings, we're pretty up-to-date culturally. A lot of people are embarrassed by the old stuff, except when they're into something kitschy. Not justifying, just saying. That said, I love the Big Night soundtrack. Reminds me of my childhood.

Great lists! I need to update my collection.

Ironically you will hear little of this in Italy. Mostly you hear 80's American music.

This one was a hit a few years back.

https://youtu.be/KPQFXPyALr8

Yeah, American music everywhere or British. And yet, want something more evocative. Of course The Trip to Italy featured the classic Italian stylings of Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill, which I'm tempted to bring just for the laughs.

http://www.fimi.it/classifiche#/category:digital and http://www.fimi.it/classifiche#/category:album will show you most streamed songs and best selling albums, respectively. Ghali, Sferaebbasta, Fabri Fibra, Fedez or J Ax are all rappers. Rappers are huge in Italy and have been for a few years, basically ousting actual pop from the radio waves. The other current trend is big female voices: again, this has been going on in the local music scene for a few years, thanks to the international success of such artists as Giorgia and Laura Pausini. You can explore more of the same type of vocal ranges and productions listening to Noemi, Nina Zilli, Giusy Ferreri, Malika Ayane, Francesca Michielin, Arisa. If you're after male vocalists, try Tiziano Ferro, Marco Mengoni, Mario Biondi, Cesare Cremonini or the older catalogue of Francesco Renga.

Roberto, how about this one? Very popular recently: https://youtu.be/juqyzgnbspY

Emilio Pericoli singing Al Di La in Roman Adventure takes me back to a young love and has me wanting to check my passport and pack my bag!

Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) - by Giuseppe Verdi from the opera Nabucco
Here's the youtube link ... pure Italian operatic at its best. If you are listening for the first time it has a gang buster intro that segs into the quintessential Italian lyrical sounds.

https://youtu.be/XttF0vg0MGo

Irdpttnll -- thanks for that link! I don't much care for the more traditional music, and this will be a good resource and a great way to practice Italian. We were in Rome a couple of weeks ago and our taxi driver was shocked I knew the song on the radio -- Tiziano Ferro.

DD

Roberto: As always, great content. I am going to do some deep dive into that Rolling Stone link.

If you're willing to go back to the 17th and 18th centuries, you could listen to some Monteverdi and Vivaldi - both worked in Venice.

Thank you to all for these great suggestions. Big Night is out of print but we were able to find a cobbled together version on youtube. Also, Apple Music has dozens of albums and playlists where we are finding many of the artists you all have mentioned. Just listening to the Best of Italian Pop Version 1. Not sure how many there are! We can stream in the hotel and download for the road. Grazie!!

I just returned from a 3 year exile in the US and whenever I would find myself missing Italy, I'd go to YouTube and just start listening to a bunch of Italian songs - opera, contemporary, whatever. The one song that never failed to cheer me up was "Brindisi" from La Traviata.

This has been a favorite of mine for years. Not sure if iTunes has it. https://www.amazon.com/Putumayo-Presents-Italian-Various-Artists/dp/B00099IJ7S

For a little progressive rock from Italy, try PFM short for Premiata Forneria Marconi. I actually picked up a three-CD compilation - 35... e un minuto - at an AutoStrada rest stop in Italy. Bargain price, too.

Emilio Pericoli singing Al Di La in Roman Adventure takes me back to a young love and has me wanting to check my passport and pack my bag!

It takes me back to my teenage years when Al Di La was the song of my girlfriend and me. We met preparing for a student trip to Europe and shared our first kiss in Florence.

It is still our song 50 years later!

This is a bit off topic but we are doing The RS 17 day Best Of IItaly tour in September, our 3rd RS tour. Last night we found the 1969 movie , If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Brussels on You tube with Suzanne Pleshette. We got a big kick out it.

Just a couple of Italian music suggestions ...

"Ti Amo" by Umberto Tozzi;
"Nel Cuore Lei" by Andrea Bocelli & Eros Ramazzotti;
"Nella Fantasia" by The Tenors (same tune as Ennio Morricone's "Gabriel's Oboe" from the Jeremy Irons film The Mission);
"Se Piangi, Se Ridi" by The New Christy Minstrels (winner 1965 Sanremo Festival)

the 1969 movie , If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Brussels on You tube with Suzanne Pleshette.

Slight correction to the title: If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium. One of my favorite films -- ensemble comedy with wonderful character actors and nice location photography, but amongst the farce is some accurate insight into the tour industry of the day.

I was on a month-long student tour of Europe in 1968, and when this movie came out a year later it felt like I was reliving my trip. :)