Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (; born 5 June 1972) is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists of

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band

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. Scabbia used to write an advice column in the popular rock magazine ''

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'', alongside musician

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. Scabbia is featured in a

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song " À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)". She also featured on " The Theory of Everything", an album from

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project, with which she is cast as the Mother. She is also the featured artist in the

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song "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)" and another version of the

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song "

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". Scabbia performed a duet with the Italian ex-singer of Linea 77 Emiliano Audisio on the track "Beautiful Lie" to be part of the soundtrack for the 2013 Italian film ''Passione sinistra''.

Lacuna Coil

In 1991, Scabbia began singing professionally as a touring musician for other bands and providing backing vocals. Later that year, she met the male vocalist

Andrea Ferro Andrea "Andy" Ferro (born 19 August 1973 in Arona, Province of Novara, Region of Piedmont) is an Italian singer, best known as the male vocalist and one of the founding members of Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. Ferro founded Lacuna Coi ...

and bass player

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of Lacuna Coil in

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's Midnight club and started dating Marco after. At the time, the band was named Ethereal, and Scabbia was asked to do vocals by her then boyfriend and bass player, Marco. She was employed to record vocals on the demo tapes, and invited to be a permanent member. After several changes in the band's line-up, the members were reduced to Ferro, Coti Zelati and Scabbia. The members recorded a two track demo in May 1996, and were soon signed by the German branch of

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, eventually joining with the American branch of the label. Once signed, the band changed their name to Lacuna Coil after learning that a Greek band signed to Century Media had already claimed the name Ethereal. Adding new band members, Lacuna Coil began, releasing their first album in 1999.

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