Giorgia Todrani (Italian: [ˈdʒɔrdʒa toˈdraːni], known professionally as simply Giorgia, is an Italian singer-songwriter. Nicknamed "the Italian Whitney Houston", she is known for her wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities, she is one of the most famous Italian singers, she has released twelve studio albums all enjoying commercial success. Giorgia has become fairly well known throughout Europe as an ambassador for Italian pop music.
Giorgia holds the first place among the female Italian artists of her generation for number of weeks in the Fimi-Nielsen chart, and she has sold over 25 million records worldwide, with 17 top-ten albums of which 6 number-one on the Italian album chart, and 24 top-ten singles of which 5 number-one hits on the Italian singles chart. She has participated five times at the Sanremo Music Festival, in 1995, in 1996, in 2001, in 2023 and in 2025, placing at the first, third, second, sixth and sixth place respectively. At the Sanremo Music Festival 1995, she won 4 prizes on the same night (Festival First Awards, Radio/TV Awards, Authors Awards and "Mia Martini" Awards), holding the unbeaten Sanremo record of a winning artist collecting all the prizes at once. In her career, Giorgia has won 8 Italian and Wind Music Awards, a David di Donatello, a Nastro d'Argento and a "Premio Lunezia".
Her debut-album Giorgia sold more than 160,000 copies in Italy and approximately 1 million worldwide (it was a best seller in Italy and enjoyed good success in Germany too). A few months later
Luciano Pavarotti asked her to perform with him in a duet at the annual Pavarotti & friends show in Modena, Italy where she gave a performance of Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever. She also sang with the famous tenor. In 1994 Giorgia won the European Award as "best Young Italian artist".
In 2005, Giorgia was the first Italian artist to release an MTV Unplugged recorded in Milan. The live CD includes acoustic versions all of her major hits. The album has been certified triple platinum in Italy and gained Giorgia many awards. She was supported by the band of Prince, Terence Blanchard and during the concert she dueted with soul star Ricky Fanté.
She is the only Italian artist to have sung with
Elton John. The British singer called Giorgia One of the best and beautiful voices in the world.
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: Giorgia Todrani
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Giorgia has won 8 Italian and Wind Music Awards, a David di Donatello, a Nastro d'Argento and a "Premio Lunezia".
European Award as "best Young Italian artist"