Carmen Consoli

A Sicilian singer born in Catania on September 4, 1974, Carmen Consoli began composing and playing guitar at the age of fifteen, as part of the blues-rock band Moon Dog's Party, before performing with her own musicians. His first album, Due Parole (1996), featuring a track with Mario Venuti, was released on the Polydor-affiliated independent rock label Cyclope. Influenced by the great Italian and American rock bands, the singer-songwriter uses the plasticity of her timbre to adapt to several registers, from folk ballads to alternative rock. After Confusa e Felice (1997), whose title track reached No. 3, and Mediamente Isterica (1998), the fourth album Stato di Necessità (2000) reached No. 6 in the sales charts and won over a wider audience, as confirmed by the next two collections, L'Eccezione (2002) and Eva Contro Eva (2006), which reached No. 1. Titles such as "L'Ultimo Bacio", "Parole di Burro" (No. 4) and "L'Eccezione " (No. 5) become crowd favorites, while artists such as Goran Bregovic and Angélique Kidjo compose for the singer. In 2009, the highly respected Franco Battiato accompanied Carmen Consoli and sang with her on a track from the 2009 album Elettra, "Marie Ti Amiamo". Following her participation in the charity song "Domani 21/04.09", which brought together some fifty Italian artists in support of the victims of the L'Aquila earthquake in Abruzzo (ranked No. 1 for twelve weeks), Carmen Consoli founded her own Due Parole label and produced Sicilian musicians. In 2012, among numerous musical awards, she received the insignia of Chevalier of the Italian Order of Merit, then recorded her ninth album L'Abitudine di Tornare (2015). In 2017, seven years after "Guarda l'Alba", she sings a new duet with Tiziano Ferro entitled "Il Conforto". Further collaborations follow with Levante on "Lo Stretto Necessario" (2019) and in trio with Colapesce and Dimartino on "Luna Araba" (2020), before her participation in the Mulan film soundtrack (2020), with the track "Coraggio, Onestà e Lealtà". On August 25, 2021, Carmen Consoli celebrates twenty-five years of career at the Verona Arena, before the release of the album Volevo fare la rockstar. She collaborates with Tiromancino on his album Ho cambiare tante case and with Marina Rei on the track "Un momento di felicità", then takes part in the WOMAD festival in England in 2023. Awarded the Prix Tenco in the same year, she gave a concert in Pompeii's amphitheatre in June 2024 and starred in the film L'amore che ho, released in 2025. October 2025 saw the release of the song album Amuri luci, with contributions from Mahmood and Jovanotti.