Anna Tatangelo (born 9 January 1987) is an Italian pop singer and television personality. At the age of 15, she became the youngest person to win the Newcomer’s Award at the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival singing contest. Her repertoire consists mainly of pop music with slight influences of neo-melodic in some of the songs composed for her by singer Gigi D’Alessio, but also in the fifth fusion albums Progetto B.

She faced several social issues and current affairs, such as the empowerment of women, homophobia, anorexia and violence against women. Since 2007 she also wrote some songs. She participated in the Sanremo Music Festival six times in ten years, winning in 2002 with the song “Doppiamente fragile” and getting on the podium three more times: in 2005, when it was ranked third in the category “Women” with “Ragazza di periferia”, in 2006, when it was ranked in third place overall and first in the category women with “Essere una donna” and in 2008, when, with the song “Il mio amico” has reached the second position. The last was in 2011 with the song “Bastardo”.

She has been in a romantic relationship with the singer Gigi D’Alessio from February 2005 to March 2020. Up to date she has sold nearly 1 million copies worldwide. She has been a guest on several Italian TV shows, including Ti Lascio una canzone on April 5, 2008, and she also won the first Italian edition of Celebrity Masterchef.

Anna Tatangelo was born in Sora to a family of producers of ciambella, traditional bagel sorana. Since 1994, age 7, she began to take part in several shows in provincial and regional contests, collecting numerous placements, such as in 1999, where she placed second with “Minifestival della canzone” of Viterbo, which she won a year later. In 2001 she participated in the concert “La nota d’oro di Blera”, won the traveling “Bravissimi in tour” stop in Sora and also won the national final of Cassano.

Again, she won second place in the final of the competition “Una voce per … ” and another victory to” Castelliri in Musica. ” In August of that year, at age 14, she was selected by Rai for “Girofestival” where she presented her first song titled, “Dov’e’ il coraggio” (“Where is the Courage”) and came third in the newcomers section and was selected to perform at the Nuove voci per Sanremo (New Voices of Sanremo) Festival in Gropparello. For the same song she shot her first music video and also signed her first record deal (with the CSB Italy – Casalba). She perfected her style at the Music Academy of Sora, where she played for the youth choir in concert. In September of that year she participated and won the academy’s Song of Sanremo with the song Angelo of Syria: with this victory comes right in the cast of the youth category of the Sanremo Music Festival in 2002.

In 2002, Tatangelo became the youngest person at 15 years old to win the Sanremo Music Festival’s Newcomer’s Award. Pippo Baudo chooses as co-host transmission “Sanremo Top”, along with Silvia Mezzanotte, with the winner Matia Bazar. In the same year a duet with Gigi D’Alessio in “Un nuovo bacio”, reaching ninth place among the best-selling singles. In July, she took part at the XVII World Youth Day, playing Amazing Grace with Tiziano Ferro, Raf, and Antonella Ruggiero in Piazza San Pietro.

 In 2003 Tatangelo at Sanremo Music Festival returns, this time in the Big, paired with Federico Stragà, with the song “Volere volare”, signed by Claudioeg Bungaro and Claudio Passavanti. Summer Run preceded by the single comes out in August 2003 his first album, entitled Attimo per attimo produced by Fio Zanotti, the piece that gives the title track is a song originally written by the same Zanotti for Mia Martini, who died before to run it. From the album, as well as Corri, it extracts the same Attimo per attimo and L’amore più grande che c’è. In 2004 she was chosen by Disney to sing with Gigi D’Alessio in Il mondo è mio, the soundtrack of the animated film Aladdin. In the same year, as well as working with several concerts of his first official tour, established a collaboration with the Video Italia channel: she was entrusted with the band for the afternoon Playlist Italy introduce such interviews, and live video programs requested by viewers of Live Italy. Tatangelo collaborates with Video Italia for two years.

In 2005, at eighteen, she participated for the third time at the Sanremo Music Festival with “Ragazza di periferia”, a song written by Gigi D’Alessio with Vincenzo D’Agostino and Adriano Pennino. The song will be classified third in the category Women and weeks after the position reaches number 16 in the ranking of best-selling singles in Italy. By participating in the Festival will also quit the singer’s second album, also titled “Ragazza di periferia”. Two songs on the album (Dimmi dimmi e Quando dua si lasciano) are included in the soundtrack of the movie “Troppo belli”. In July, after graduating from high school, Tatangelo starts on Tour in 2005, which includes several dates throughout Italy. When two are left is the new single. On 23 September the same year she participates in an O’scià and Italian pop music festival conceived by Claudio Baglioni and, during the same month, is the third single from the album, Qualcosa di te. In December, the host of the tour to Australia by Gigi D’Alessio. In 2006 Tatangelo her debut on records in Brazil and South America and get flattering criticism from European and French in particular. For the fourth time in five years, participated in the 56th Sanremo Music Festival with “Essere una donna”, a song composed by Mogol and Gigi D’Alessio. During the course of the event on the evening of duets, performing a reworked version of the song, accompanied by Alberto Radius and Ricky Portera.