Fiorella Mannoia reaches her 70th birthday - she was born in Rome on 4 April 1954 - at the height of her career, with an enviable physical shape that recalls her beginnings as a stunt woman when she replaced Monica Vitti, Candice Bergen and Loretta Goggi of "Black Arrow".
Above all today, Fiorella Mannoia represents a model for the new generations for the coherence with which she lived her long career that began as a young girl, for the attention with which she pursued quality in her professional choices and for her ability not to adapt to conformism and to always express an original thought with intelligence and irony, without ever losing sight of the commitment towards the less fortunate.
A pure interpreter who has built an unmistakable style for herself, which focuses on the essence of music, eschewing virtuosity as an end in itself and songwriting clichés and who, precisely for this reason, has established herself as a reference figure in the musical panorama Italian of recent years.
If you were to create a slogan to summarize your career you could use "the success of quality" because over the course of your long professional activity you have managed to stay away from compromises in the name of easy success.
Fiorella Mannoia is the female voice closest and linked by elective affinities to the world of singer-songwriters who have written a lot for her and of whom she represents a sort of elegant feminine counterpart, capable of keeping up with the times without giving in to trends.
In this artistic journey of hers, which over the years has been enriched with fundamental experiences alongside her colleagues as well as some of the greatest Italian artists, Brazil has played an important role, not only for the famous version of "O que sera" by Chico Buarque de Hollanda but above all for "Onda Tropicale" a project which for the first time brought together the giants of contemporary Carioca popular music in a historic album not only for Italy.
But Brazil also represents an opportunity for solidarity for her, due to her commitment to the Axè Foundation project, which aims to recover Brazilian children and adolescents who live in disadvantaged conditions.
And precisely the commitment, to support causes such as the activity of Emergency, the battle against violence against women, solidarity towards the workers of Ilva in Taranto, support for populations affected by natural disasters in Emilia and Abruzzo, together with a progressive vision of politics make Fiorella Mannoia, who has been an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic since 2005, a special character in Italian entertainment, an example of how an artist is capable of understanding her work as a project and a vision that goes far beyond simple entertainment. And, as she demonstrated at the last Sanremo, she never loses the desire to smile.
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