Tiziana Rivale
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Background information | |
Birth name | Letizia Oliva |
Born | (1958-08-13) 13 August 1958 (age 66) Formia, Italy |
Genres | Pop, Italo disco |
Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter |
Years active | 1981–present |
Website | www |
Letizia Oliva (born 13 August 1958), known professionally as Tiziana Rivale, is an Italian singer primarily associated with the Italo disco style. In 1983, she won the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Sarà quel che sarà".[1][2]
Life and career
Letizia Olivia was born in Formia, Italy, where by the age of eleven she had become determined to pursue a musical career.[3] After being a vocalist in the musical group Rockollection,[citation needed] in 1980 Oliva debuted as a solo singer under the stage name Tiziana Ciao. After signing under contract with WEA Italiana, she adopted her career-long stage name Tiziana Rivale (occasionally shortened to just Rivale for releases) and released her debut single under this name, "L'amore va" (1983).[4][5] A self-trained vocalist, around the same time she had been recording television jingles with other artists, including Ivana Spagna and Ronnie Jones.[3]
In 1983, Rivale won a selection organized by Domenica in that put up for grabs a place in the 32nd edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, and eventually won the main competition with the song "Sarà quel che sarà". The song was also Rivale's biggest commercial success, remaining on the Italian music charts for twelve weeks and peaking at No. 5.[6] Rivale would go on to gradually record and release three albums following the competition – the eponymous self-titled pop ballad-based Tiziana Rivale (1983) which also featured "Sarà quel che sarà", the synth-pop/Italo disco album Contatto (1986), and the Italo disco concept album Destiny (1988). Although she starred in a music video – her only one – for the titular track of Destiny, no commercial single was ever released.[3][7] As the 1980s came to a close, Rivale gradually focused her attention on live musical performances, primarily performing in club venues and seldom making television appearances by the end of the decade as the popularity of the genre waned.[4][5] Between 1988 and 1992 Rivale moved to Los Angeles and took a break from the music industry before moving back to Italy and resuming her musical career.[8]
Following the release of the albums Con tutto l'amore che c'è (1996) and Angelo biondo (2000), as well as her sole compilation album Il meglio (1997), Rivale would then sign on with the retro label FlashBack Records. Off her sixth studio album Mystic Rain (2009) the lead single "Ash" (2008) was well-received upon release, and has been regarded as one of the best Italo disco songs in recent years.[9] Rivale released two additional studio albums under similar retro labels, True (2011) and the multi-language Babylon 2015 (2015); while none of these new albums managed to chart, they were made widely available, as with her older albums (which became more widely re-released and internationally distributed upon remastering).[8]
Rivale continues to perform in Italian retro club venues as well as record new material.[3]
Discography
All albums and single releases credited under Tiziana Rivale unless otherwise stated.
Albums
- Tiziana Rivale (1983) – Italy No. 38
- Contatto (1986) – Italy No. 80
- Destiny (1988) (as Rivale) – Italy No. 123
- Con tutto l'amore che c'è (1996) (as Rivale)
- Angelo biondo (2000)
- Mystic Rain (2009) (as Rivale)
- True (2011)
- Babylon 2015 (2015)
Compilations
- Il meglio (1997) – Italy No. 98
Singles
- "L'amore va" (1983) – Italy No. 76
- "Sarà quel che sarà" / "Serenade" (1983) – Italy No. 5[6]
- "Questo mondo è una baracca" (1983)
- "C'est la vie" (1984) – Italy No. 115
- "Ferma il mondo" / "Moviestory" (1985)
- "È finita qui" (1994)
- "Ash" / "Flame" (2008) – Italy No. 208
- "Telephone" / "Daily Dream" (2009)
- "For Always" (2014)
References
- ^ "Anno 1983 - Festival di Sanremo del 1983". Festival di Sanremo (in Italian). 21 July 2002. Archived from the original on 21 July 2002. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- ^ "Sanremo 1983: Storie e storie del Festival". Sanremo (in Italian). RAI. 23 February 2010. Archived from the original on 4 November 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b c d Vujkovic, Zeljko (28 October 2008). "Interview with Tiziana Rivale". The World of Italo Disco Interviews. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ a b Lalla Cantore. "Rivale, Tiziana". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990.
- ^ a b Anselmi, Eddy (2009). Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana (in Italian). Panini Comics. ISBN 978-8863462296.
- ^ a b Daniele, Michele (7 May 2006). "Successi 1983". Hit Parade Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved 29 February 2024.
- ^ "Domenica In" 1988, retrieved 12 October 2022
- ^ a b Marco, Maximo De (21 May 2018). "Exclusive interview with Tiziana Rivale: "I should have gone to the Eurovision contest in 1983 by right … but it remains a mystery what the recorders did not to send me!"". Rome Central Magazine. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
- ^ Cosentino, Alba (15 September 2009). "Tiziana Rivale, recensione di Mystic Rain » FullSong.it". FullSong.it (in Italian). Retrieved 12 October 2022.
External links
- Official website
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Preceded by | Sanremo Music Festival Winner 1983 | Succeeded by |
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- Nilla Pizzi ("Vola colomba")
- Carla Boni / Flo Sandon's ("Viale d'autunno")
- Giorgio Consolini / Gino Latilla ("Tutte le mamme")
- Claudio Villa / Tullio Pane ("Buongiorno tristezza")
- Franca Raimondi ("Aprite le finestre")
- Claudio Villa / Nunzio Gallo ("Corde della mia chitarra")
- Domenico Modugno / Johnny Dorelli ("Nel blu, dipinto di blu")
- Domenico Modugno / Johnny Dorelli ("Piove (Ciao, ciao bambina)")
- Tony Dallara / Renato Rascel ("Romantica")
- Betty Curtis / Luciano Tajoli ("Al di là")
- Domenico Modugno / Claudio Villa ("Addio, addio")
- Tony Renis / Emilio Pericoli ("Uno per tutte")
- Gigliola Cinquetti / Patricia Carli ("Non ho l'età")
- Bobby Solo / The New Christy Minstrels ("Se piangi, se ridi")
- Domenico Modugno / Gigliola Cinquetti ("Dio, come ti amo")
- Claudio Villa / Iva Zanicchi ("Non pensare a me")
- Sergio Endrigo / Roberto Carlos ("Canzone per te")
- Bobby Solo / Iva Zanicchi ("Zingara")
- Adriano Celentano / Claudia Mori ("Chi non lavora non fa l'amore")
- Nada / Nicola Di Bari ("Il cuore è uno zingaro")
- Nicola Di Bari ("I giorni dell'arcobaleno")
- Peppino di Capri ("Un grande amore e niente più")
- Iva Zanicchi ("Ciao cara come stai?")
- Gilda ("Ragazza del sud")
- Peppino di Capri ("Non lo faccio più")
- Homo Sapiens ("Bella da morire")
- Matia Bazar ("...e dirsi ciao")
- Mino Vergnaghi ("Amare")
- Toto Cutugno ("Solo noi")
- Alice ("Per Elisa")
- Riccardo Fogli ("Storie di tutti i giorni")
- Tiziana Rivale ("Sarà quel che sarà")
- Al Bano and Romina Power ("Ci sarà")
- Ricchi e Poveri ("Se m'innamoro")
- Eros Ramazzotti ("Adesso tu")
- Gianni Morandi, Umberto Tozzi and Enrico Ruggeri ("Si può dare di più")
- Massimo Ranieri ("Perdere l'amore")
- Anna Oxa and Fausto Leali ("Ti lascerò")
- Pooh ("Uomini soli")
- Riccardo Cocciante ("Se stiamo insieme")
- Luca Barbarossa ("Portami a ballare")
- Enrico Ruggeri ("Mistero")
- Aleandro Baldi ("Passerà")
- Giorgia ("Come saprei")
- Ron and Tosca ("Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni")
- Jalisse ("Fiumi di parole")
- Annalisa Minetti ("Senza te o con te")
- Anna Oxa ("Senza pietà")
- Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel ("Sentimento")
- Elisa ("Luce (Tramonti a nord est)")
- Matia Bazar ("Messaggio d'amore")
- Alexia ("Per dire di no")
- Marco Masini ("L'uomo volante")
- Francesco Renga ("Angelo")
- Povia ("Vorrei avere il becco")
- Simone Cristicchi ("Ti regalerò una rosa")
- Giò Di Tonno and Lola Ponce ("Colpo di fulmine")
- Marco Carta ("La forza mia")
- Valerio Scanu ("Per tutte le volte che...")
- Roberto Vecchioni ("Chiamami ancora amore")
- Emma Marrone ("Non è l'inferno")
- Marco Mengoni ("L'essenziale")
- Arisa ("Controvento")
- Il Volo ("Grande amore")
- Stadio ("Un giorno mi dirai")
- Francesco Gabbani ("Occidentali's Karma")
- Ermal Meta and Fabrizio Moro ("Non mi avete fatto niente")
- Mahmood ("Soldi")
- Diodato ("Fai rumore")
- Måneskin ("Zitti e buoni")
- Mahmood and Blanco ("Brividi")
- Marco Mengoni ("Due vite")
- Angelina Mango ("La noia")