Fiordaliso

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Expand Italian|topic=bio|Fiordaliso|date=May 2023}} {{Short description|Italian singer (born 1956)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Fiordaliso | image = Fiordaliso (cantante).jpg | image_size = | caption = Fiordaliso in concert in Rome in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1956|02|19}} | instrument = | genre = [[Pop rock]] | occupation = {{flatlist| *Singer-songwriter *musician }} | years_active = 1981–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = }}

'''Marina Fiordaliso''' (born 19 February 1956), best known as {{langnf|it|'''Fiordaliso'''|[[cornflower]]|i=no}}, is an Italian [[pop rock]] singer. During her career she has sold over 6 million records.<ref>{{cite news|first=Christian|last=Sormani|title="Non voglio mica la luna" Fiordaliso canta al castello|url=http://www.ilgiorno.it/legnano/spettacoli/musica/2012/08/03/753431-voglio_mica_luna.shtml|accessdate=13 May 2013|newspaper=[[Il Giorno (newspaper)|Il Giorno]]|date=3 August 2012}}</ref>

== Life and career== Born in [[Piacenza]], Italy, the daughter of a drummer, Fiordaliso approached music at young age studying voice and piano.<ref name=music>{{cite book|first=Eddy|last=Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|location=Modena|publisher=Panini|year=2009|isbn= 978-88-6346-229-6}}</ref><ref name=Deregibus>{{cite book|editor-first=Enrico|editor-last=Deregibus|title=Dizionario completo della canzone italiana|language=it|location=Florence|publisher=Giunti|year=2007|isbn=88-09-04602-1}}</ref> In 1981 she won the [[Castrocaro Music Festival]] with the song "Scappo via", and the following year she debuted at the [[Sanremo Music Festival]] with the rock ballad "Una sporca poesia".<ref name=music/><ref name=Deregibus/> Her major successes, remarkably the songs "Oramai" and "[[Non voglio mica la luna]]" (written by [[Zucchero Fornaciari]]), are linked to the Sanremo Festival, in which she participated nine times between 1982 and 2002;<ref name=music/><ref name=Deregibus/> outside the Festival, her main hit was the song "Cosa ti farei", one of the most successful songs of the Summer 1990 in Italy.<ref name=music/> In the second half of 90s Fiordaliso gradually moved away from the musical scene without ever abandoning it, and focused on the activities of stage actress and television presenter.<ref name=music/>

She has 2 children, Sebastiano born in 1972, and Paolo in 1989.

== Discography ==

===Singles=== * 1982 – "Una sporca poesia" * 1982 – "Maschera" * 1983 – "[[Oramai]]" * 1984 – "[[Non voglio mica la luna]]" * 1984 – "Li-be-llu-la" * 1985 – "Il mio angelo" * 1985 – "Sola no, non ci sto" * 1986 – "Fatti miei" * 1986 – "La vita è molto di più"(with [[Pupo]]) * 1987 – "Il canto dell'estate" * 1988 – "Per noi" * 1989 – "Se non avessi te" * 1990 – "Cosa ti farei" * 1991 – "Il mare più grande che c'è" * 1991 – "Saprai" (with [[Roby Facchinetti]]) * 1992 – "Dimmelo tu perché" * 1997 – "Disordine mentale" * 1998 – "Come si fa" * 2000 – "Linda Linda" (Arabian song) * 2003 – "Estate '83" * 2007 – "Io muoio" * 2008 – "M'amo non M'amo" * 2009 – "Canto del sole inesauribile"

==== Foreign Singles ==== * 1984 – "Yo no te pido la luna" * 1985 – "Sola no, yo no sé estar" * 1985 - "Quando dormi" * 1986 – "Desde hoy" * 1986 - "Vive" * 1991 – "I love you man (Il mare più grande che c'è)" * 1991 – "El mar más grande que hay" * 1991 – "Sabrás" (with [[Riccardo Fogli]]) * 1991 – "Sposa di rosa" * 1997 – "Como te amaré"

=== Albums === * 1983 – ''Fiordaliso'' * 1984 – ''Non voglio mica la luna'' (reissue of the above, with the addition of "Non voglio mica la luna") * 1984 – ''Discoquattro'' * 1985 – ''A ciascuno la sua donna'' * 1985 – ''Fiordaliso – Dal vivo per il mondo'' (live) * 1986 – ''Applausi a Fiordaliso'' (reissue of the above, with the addition of "Fatti miei" and the removal of "You know my way" and "Sola no, yo no sé estar") * 1987 – ''Fiordaliso'' * 1989 – ''Io... Fiordaliso'' (collection with three new songs) * 1990 – ''La vita si balla'' * 1991 – ''Il portico di Dio'' * 1992 – ''Io ci sarò'' * 1994 – ''E adesso voglio la luna – I grandi successi'' (collection with two new songs and 9 remixes) * 2002 – ''Risolutamente decisa'' (collection with three new songs and 9 remixes) * 2004 – ''Come si fa'' (collection with two new songs)

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.fiordalisoweb.it/}} *{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=mn0000172157|label=Fiordaliso}} * {{discogs artist|Fiordaliso}} *{{IMDb name|2323587}}

{{Authority control}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Musicians from Piacenza]] [[Category:20th-century Italian women singers]] [[Category:21st-century Italian women singers]] [[Category:Italian women pop singers]] [[Category:Italian women rock singers]] [[Category:Spanish-language Italian singers]]