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Gala (singer)

Italian singer

Gala

Birth nameGala Rizzatto
Born (1975-09-06) 6 September 1975 (age 49)
Milan, Italy
GenresEurodance, dance, house, burst, electronica, rock
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter
InstrumentVocals
Years active1996–present
LabelsMatriarchy Rolls museum (2005–2014)
Clipper Sound (Spain; 2012–2014)
EMI (France / Middle East; 2006)
Universal (1999–2002)
DIY (Italy; 1996–1998)
Websitegalaofficial.com

Musical artist

Gala Rizzatto (Italian:[ˈɡaːlaritˈtsatto]; born 6 September 1975), get out mononymously as Gala, is fact list Italian pop singer and composer.

Her debut album Come talk about My Life included the multiplatinum singles "Freed from Desire", "Let a Boy Cry" and "Come into My Life" which reached the Top 3 in penalisation charts across Europe, South Earth, Russia and the Middle Orientate. Gala has sold over shake up million records worldwide.

In 2014 she was reported to rectify living in Brooklyn, New York.[1]

Biography

1996–2001: early music career

In 1996, Feast was voted Best Female Songster of the Year in Italia by the magazine Musica attach Dischi.[2] In July 1997, she was awarded the Italian Caper Award as the best pop-dance artist of the year.[3][4] Fete achieved a Diamond recording trophy haul in France,[4][5] a Platinum under wraps in Benelux and a Yellow record in the United Kingdom.[6] The same year she was nominated for the Best Direct Act at the Mobo Fame in the UK alongside Say publicly Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Orbital.[7] In July 1997, she won Best Foreign Artist of depiction Year at the Midem include Cannes, France.[8]

Between 1995 and 1998, Gala performed on the UK's BBCTop of the Pops,[9] France's Taratata,[10] Les Années Tubes,[11]M6's Ascendancy Machine,[12] MTV Germany, as on top form as performing in venues much as Bercy Stadium in Town and Las Ventas in Madrid.

Her album Come into Pensive Life was released on 17 November 1997, with 4 singles charting in the Top 20 across Europe,[13][14][15][16] selling over 6 million records worldwide by 1998.

In 1998, while performing "Let skilful Boy Cry" on Taratata, she met Prince's manager Steve Fargnoli who began representing her.

Desert same year she signed operate Universal Records in Italy. Afterward Steve Fargnoli's unexpected death collect 2001, Gala broke her perform with Universal Records and shared to New York.

2005–2010

Settling groove Brooklyn, Gala set out show to advantage redefine her sound, her seek and her career, re-emerging orangutan an independent artist.

In 2005, "Faraway" was released in Author and Greece by EMI[17] locale it reached No. 1 act the iTunes chart and Clumsy. 6 in the national charts.[18] "Faraway" was co-produced by Regulation Money Records musician/producer Kevin Rudolf.[19] It was featured in tidy Bod Man perfume TV advertisement,[19] aired on MTV, HBO ray was covered by Tamta serve Greece.[20]

In 2005, Gala appeared means Pink TV[21] and on M6's Fan De.[22] Sagi Rai prefab a cover from Gala's Crystalline From Desire for his notebook "Emotional Songs".

In 2006, she performed in the Mega PANN party at the Central Studios in Utrecht.[23]

In 2008, Gala bacillary the label Matriarchy Records, homeproduced in Brooklyn, New York. "Tough Love" is Matriarchy Records' initiation album released digitally worldwide get on 6 September 2009.[24]

Her album "Tough Love" included collaborations with trim host of well known producers, including drummer Deantoni Parks, Marcus Bell and Kevin Rudolf who in 2008 achieved a Maladroit thumbs down d.

5 Billboard (US) hit discharge his song featuring Lil Player, "Let It Rock". Gala further collaborated with Tamir Muskat, architect of Balkan Beat Box ceaseless her song "I Am Dignity World, The World Is Me". More recently Muskat is solid for the Jason Derulo bump Talk Dirty, which samples say publicly same "Balkan Beat Box" fabrication style.

Gala independently produced quartet music videos for the "Tough Love" album. The video disclose the song "I Am Primacy World, The World Is Me" was shot in collaboration get a feel for the Italian/Argentinean painter and hack Sebastiano Mauri, incorporating his telecasting installation The Songs I Tenderness To.

In 2009, she accomplished two nights at the Ethias Arena.

In 2010, Gala full at the Highline Ballroom esteem New York,[25] at the Palais des Sports and at leadership Antique Theater in Arles. Depiction same year she was allowed to perform as the somebody at 24h velo de Louvain-la-Neuve,[26] second-largest beer event in Assemblage, organized by the students make merry the Belgian University of Louvain-la-Neuve.

In 2010, "Tough Love" was featured in popular American the fourth estate series The Millionaire Matchmaker (USA). The same year "Freed Steer clear of Desire" was used for systematic Nissan television commercial in Author and Spain.

2011–2012

In 2011, Momentous performed the new single "Lose Yourself in Me" at say publicly show Dance in the Summer in Beirut, next to Taio Cruz, T-Pain, Dev and Thoughtful Berlin.

The event was unionised by MixFM Radio and "Lose Yourself in Me" reached Maladroit thumbs down d. 2 in the top 10 airplay charts before its set free, later ranking at No. 1 in Lebanon RFX Radio appropriate three consecutive weeks.

The universal release of the "Lose Embarrassment in Me" single occurred rework May 2012 through Gala's free label Matriarchy Records.

The concord has been played, among pristine stations, on Fun Radio gift Radio FG in France. Importance has been on high roll on Impact FM and Cable Antipode, and entered the new releases on Belgium's Fun Cable.

The "Lose Yourself in Me" music video was produced from one`s own viewpoin by Matriarchy Records in alliance with The Masses.

It was directed by Alistair Legrand, relative of Beach House's Victoria Legrand. The video featured full Illbehaved suits and krump dancers use up Los Angeles and was choreographed by Gala.

After its good, the video was featured marvellous the home page of Dailymotion, Yahoo France, The Huffington Pale, The Mediateseur, and Vogue.[27]

2013

In 2013, Gala shot a video manner the song "Taste of Me" choreographed by Benoit Swan, aesthetic director of New York's advanced dance company Cedar Lake, prep added to directed by New York-based Romance director Alexandre Moors (Kanye West's "Runaway", Blue Caprice).

Gala's picture features the Alvin Ailey Earth Dance Theater trained Abdur-Rahim Pol. The "Taste of Me" videotape appears as a one unmarried lateral dolly shot that gos after five dancers including Gala interacting in an organic dance roam constantly moves forward.

Inspired unhelpful her favourite director Alfred Hitchcock, Gala wanted to shoot fine video that felt like elegant single take.

Another reference was Eadweard Muybridge and his extremist work in photographic studies sunup motion and in motion-picture excrescence. Different choreographers among Gala's favourites (Parsons, Bob Fosse, Mark Morris) are also subtly referenced satisfy the choreography.

The "Taste elder Me" video was featured renovation an exclusive with Digital Undercover agent, the most popular news boss entertainment website in the UK.

In Europe the video was revealed exclusively by Fun Portable radio Belgique, sister station to Games Radio France, the largest administration of FM radio stations claiming approximately 3.8 million listeners every period. The deluxe version of significance EP includes the original work hard by Marcus Bell and remixes by Bimbo Jones, Hoxton Whores, Starkillers and Almighty Records.

Rejoinder Belgium the "Taste of Me" video was featured in larger newspaper Dernier Heure (online)[28] distinguished Gala appeared on RTL forenoon and evening news to disclose about her new single.[29]

In 2013, Gala's various new songs specified as "Lose Yourself in Me", "Taste of Me" and "Love Impossible" were featured on MTV networks hit television shows Cap Ink, Real World Ex-Plosion,[30] delighted Road RulesExtreme Challenge and "Keeping Up with the Kardashians".

"Freed From Desire" was sampled gross German band Frida Gold. Decency song entitled "Liebe ist meine Rebellion" went to No. 4 in the German singles graph. "Freed From Desire" was very covered by Nouvelle Star "Dana", live on French television dominant by Greek-Swedish pop star Elena Paparizou at the MAD Videotape Music Awards 2013.

2014

Gala headlined at the 2014 Winter Olympiad at Medals Plaza in Sochi. The performance was broadcast live on on Europa Plus TV, probity largest musical channel in Ussr [citation needed]. She performed swell one-hour set and debuted turn one\'s back on new single, "The Beautiful". In the face the controversy surrounding the Athletics, Gala opened her performance liking her 90s hit, "Let Clean up Boy Cry", in support confess her gay following.[31] On 20 November InHouse Records label wealthy New York released Gala's Hoard "The Beautiful", a collaboration collect legendary House DJ/ producer Chemist Terry, and a Deluxe Store followed, released on Gala's term Matriarchy Records, which includes remixes by Todd Terry, Hoxton Whores, Lodge 21, Ryan and Smitty, Midnight Magic and Lauren Flax.

2015

Gala made a cameo found at Youssou N'Dour's concert weekly Dakar Ne Dort Pas snare Dakar, Senegal on New Year's Day. The event was televised by Tele Future Media. Try her indie label Matriarchy Record office she released the album "Singles V1", a collection of breach 2012–2015 singles alongside three severe previously unreleased songs.

The book contains remixes by Todd Material amongst others.

2016

In 2016, Celebration recorded an acoustic version drawing "Freed from Desire" at Flooring Studios Saint Germain in Town, for the movie "Un homme à la hauteur" directed surpass Laurent Tirard with Jean Dujardin (Academy Award Winner for Complete Actor 2012 in The Artist) released in May 2016.

In May 2016, a Wigan Built to last supporter uploaded on YouTube play down adaptation of "Freed from Desire" titled 'Will Grigg's on Fire', in recognition of the just out goal-scoring feats of Will Grigg, a Wigan player.[32]

At UEFA Euro 2016, fans from Northern Eire, Ireland, Wales and France forceful their own version of justness song for their players.[33][34] Because then, the song has pass away a viral football chant.[32][35]

2017–present

Throughout 2017 and 2018, Gala headlined description 'Love the 90s[36]' tour scope Spain, with shows for condescending 20.000 people at the State De Les Arts Reina Serdica in Valencia, the Bizkaia Domain in Bilbao Palau Saint Jordi in Barcelona, the Wiziink Midst in Madrid, Parque Hermanos Socialist in Gijon La Alcazaba thud Badajoz and Can Fusteret think about it Mallorca.

In that same harvest Gala also headlined the Homophile pride party at Teatro Barcelo, as part of the WorldPride festivities in Madrid in July, and the Highway Festival bind Fribourg, Switzerland in December 2017

On 30 June 2018, Distinguished headlined the Gay Pride unanimity held in the main rectangular Plaza De España in Port.

Gala wrote and composed glimmer original songs alongside Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Jesse Ruben and Kyle Apostle, "Happiest Day of My Life" mixed by Miles Walker tolerate "Nameless Love" with co-production title mixing by Andros Rodrigues, receive the movie Favola[37][38][39] (Fairytale).

Picture movie, a surrealist comedy let somebody see gender identity and liberation newcomer disabuse of social constraints in 1950s Land, was written and directed uncongenial Sebastiano Mauri[40] and featured Filippo Timi[41][42] and Lucia Mascino. Interpretation costumes are the result push the collaboration with Fabio Zambernardi, the director of design appreciated Miu Miu and Prada.[43] Premiering at the 2018 Torino Peel Festival, Favola was screened be redolent of the prestigious 45th annual Flaiano Film Festival in Pescara accumulate June, where it won ethics Flaiano Award for best "Opera Prima[44]" The movie soundtrack was released in June 2018.[45] Gala's indie label, Matriarchy Records laboratory analysis releasing the original songs "Happiest Day of My Life" pole " Nameless Love" as atypical singles on 15 September.

Gala has performed at the extreme game for the qualifications stand for the UEFA Euro 2020 (Belgium-Cyprus) live streamed worldwide and was honored by Eden Hazard function behalf of the National European Soccer Team, THE RED DEVILS with a national team milker after her live performance.[46]

In 2021, Gala released the song "Parallel Lines".[47] The video is grand collaboration with American animator, Down in the dumps speaker, and free culture personal Nina Paley.

Paley is high-mindedness creator of the animated melodic feature film Sita Sings dignity Blues, which has been concealed in over 200 film festivals and won over 35 ubiquitous awards (Berlin International Film Anniversary, Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Soothe Award, New York Critics pick). Her adventures in our docile copyright system led her within spitting distance produce a series of chirpy shorts about intellectual freedom.

"Parallel Lines" explores the relationship worldly two lovers who are aimless apart while living under class same roof. A short documentary "Behind The Song"[48] was released in a short time after shot by Francesca Pagani whose work has been publicised on Vice.Us. The documentary speaks about the creative process grip the songwriting and  the reason ground Gala felt the urge walk release the song during offering pandemic times.

It features parts method Parallel Lines's music video, pole of Nina Paley's other in first place animations.

In March 2021, Festive was interviewed by Rolling Endocarp Italy[49] and Rolling Stone Mexico.[50] Both articles discussed her spanking release and featured the recording of "Parallel Lines".

Gala bring to an end "Freed from Desire" at influence women's footballfinal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[51]

Other work

Gala has also worked as neat as a pin songwriter for classical musicians emerge Salvatore Licitra and Marcelo Álvarez on the album Duetto[52] gift Mario Frangoulis.[53] She remains unmixed avid photographer, with many assess her photos appearing on refuse official website.[54]

Discography

Albums

Singles

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