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", "

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" and " Come into My Life" which reached the Top 3 in music charts across Europe, South America, Russia and the Middle East. Gala has sold over six million records worldwide. She currently lives in

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, New York.

Biography

1996–2001: early music career

In 1996, Gala was voted ''Best Female Singer of the Year'' in Italy by the magazine ''Musica e Dischi''. In July 1997 she was awarded the ''Italian Dance Award'' as the best pop-dance artist of the year.Press article
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recording award in France, a

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record in Benelux and a

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record in the United Kingdom. The same year she was nominated for the ''Best Dance Act'' at the

Mobo Awards The MOBO Awards (Music of Black Origin, also known as the MOBOs) are an annual British music award presentation honouring achievements in " music of black origin", including hip hop, grime, UK Drill, R&B, soul, reggae, jazz, gospel, and Af ...

in the UK alongside

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and Orbital. In July 1997 she won ''Best Foreign Artist of the Year'' at the

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in Cannes, France. Between 1995 and 1998 Gala performed on the UK's

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'', France's

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in Paris and

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in Madrid. Her album '' Come into My Life'' was released on 17 November 1997, with 4 singles charting in the Top 20 across Europe, selling over 6 million records worldwide by 1998. In 1998, while performing "

" on ''

'', she met

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's manager Steve Fargnoli who began representing her. The same year she signed with

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in Italy. After Steve Fargnoli's unexpected death in 2001, Gala broke her contract with Universal Records and returned to New York.

2005–2010

Settling in Brooklyn, Gala set out to redefine her sound, her life and her career, re-emerging as an independent artist. In 2005, "Faraway" was released in France and Greece by

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where it reached No. 1 on the iTunes chart and No. 6 in the national charts. "Faraway" was co-produced by

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musician/producer

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.Billboard – Google Books
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and was covered by

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in Greece. In 2005 Gala appeared on Pink TV and on M6's Fan De. Sagi Rai made a cover from Gala's Freed From Desire for his album "Emotional Songs". In 2006, she performed in the Mega PANN party at the Central Studios in

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. In 2008 Gala formed the label Matriarchy Records, based in Brooklyn, New York. "Tough Love" is Matriarchy Records' debut album released digitally worldwide on 6 September 2009.iTunes Store
. iTunes Store. Retrieved 14 May 2012. "Tough Love" (album) included collaborations with a host of well known producers, including drummer

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, Marcus Bell and

who in 2008 achieved a No. 5 Billboard (US) hit with his song featuring

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, " Let It Rock". Gala also collaborated with

Tamir Muskat Tamir Muskat (in Hebrew תמיר מוסקט) is an Israeli musician/producer-sound engineer who was born and raised in Petach Tikva, Israel as son of a Romanian immigrant. His father was the manager of Anzeagi Conservatorion for music in Petach T ...

, founder of

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on her song "I Am The World, The World Is Me". More recently Muskat is responsible for the

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hit Talk Dirty, which samples the same "Balkan Beat Box" production style. Gala independently produced four music videos for the "Tough Love album". The video for the song "I Am The World, The World Is Me" was shot in collaboration with the Italian/Argentinean painter and writer Sebastiano Mauri, incorporating his video installation ''The Songs I Love To''. In 2009 she performed two nights at the

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. In 2010 Gala performed at the Highline Ballroom in New York, at the Palais des Sports and at the Antique Theater in Arles. The same year she was invited to perform as the headliner at 24h velo de Louvain-la-Neuve, second largest beer event in Europe organized by the students of the Belgian University of Louvain-la-Neuve. In 2010 "Tough Love" was featured in popular American television series

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(USA). The same year "Freed From Desire" was used for a

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television commercial in France and Spain.

2011–2012

In 2011, Gala performed the new single "Lose Yourself in Me" at the show ''Dance in the Summer'' in Beirut, next to

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, T-Pain, Dev and

Dash Berlin Dash Berlin is a Dutch electronic music duo started in 2007 in The Hague by Eelke Kalberg and Sebastiaan Molijn. Dash Berlin were voted the seventh most popular DJs in the world according to ''DJ Mag'' in 2012; Kalberg and Molijn were record pro ...

. The event was organised by MixFM Radio and "Lose Yourself in Me" reached No. 2 in the top 10 airplay charts before its release, later ranking at No. 1 in Lebanon RFX Radio for 3 consecutive weeks. The worldwide release of the "Lose Yourself in Me" single occurred in May 2012 through Gala's independent label Matriarchy Records. The song has been played, among other stations, on Fun Radio and

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in France. It has been on high rotation on Impact FM and Radio Antipode, and entered the ''new releases'' on Belgium's Fun Radio. The "Lose Yourself in Me" music video was produced independently by Matriarchy Records in collaboration with The Masses. It was directed by Alistair Legrand brother of Victoria Legrand from the band

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. The video featured full LED suits and krump dancers from Los Angeles and was choreographed by Gala. After its release, the video was featured on the home page of

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, Yahoo France, The Huffington Post, The Mediateseur, and

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2013

In 2013 Gala shot a video for the song "Taste Of Me" choreographed by Benoit Swan, Artistic Director of New York's avant-garde dance company Cedar Lake, and directed by New York-based French director

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(

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’s " Runaway", Blue Caprice). Gala's video features the ''Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre'' trained "Abdur-Rahim Jackson". The "Taste Of Me" video appears as a one single lateral dolly shot that follows five dancers including Gala interacting in an organic dance that constantly moves forward. Inspired by her favorite director

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, Gala wanted to shoot a video that felt like a single take. Another reference was

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and his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. Different choreographers among Gala's favorites (

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, Mark Morris) are also subtly referenced in the choreography. The "Taste Of Me" video was featured as an exclusive with

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, the most popular news and entertainment website in the UK. In Europe the video was revealed exclusively by Fun Radio Belgique, sister station to Fun Radio France, the largest group of FM radio stations claiming approximately 3.8 million listeners every day. The deluxe version of the EP includes the original production by Marcus Bell and remixes by Bimbo Jones, Hoxton Whores, Starkillers and

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. In Belgium the "Taste Of Me" video was featured in major newspaper Dernier Heure (online) and Gala appeared on RTL morning and evening news to speak about her new single. In 2013 Gala's various new songs such as "Lose Yourself in Me", "Taste of Me" and "Love Impossible" were featured on MTV networks hit television shows

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, Real World Ex-Plosion, and

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and "

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". "Freed From Desire" was sampled by German band Frida Gold. The song entitled "Liebe ist meine Rebellion" went to No. 4 in the German singles chart. "Freed From Desire" was also covered by

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"Dana", live on French television and by Greek-Swedish pop star

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at the

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2013.

2014

Gala headlined at the

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at ''Medals Plaza'' in

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. The performance was broadcast live on

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TV, the largest musical channel in Russia . She performed a one-hour set and debuted her new single, "The Beautiful". Despite the controversy surrounding the Olympics, Gala opened her performance with her 90s hit, "Let A Boy Cry", in support of her gay following. On 20 November InHouse Records label in New York released Gala's EP "The Beautiful", a collaboration with legendary House DJ/ producer

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, and a Deluxe EP followed, released on Gala's label Matriarchy Records, which includes remixes by

, Hoxton Whores, Lodge 21, Ryan and Smitty, Midnight Magic and

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2015

Gala made a cameo appearance at

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's concert for Dakar Ne Dort Pas in Dakar, Senegal on New Years Day. The event was televised by Tele Future Media. Through her indie label Matriarchy Records she released the album "Singles V1", a collection of her 2012–2015 singles alongside three some previously unreleased songs. The album contains remixes by

amongst others.

2016

In 2016 Gala recorded an acoustic version of "Freed from Desire" at Les Studios Saint Germain in Paris, for the movie " Un homme à la hauteur" directed by

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with

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(Academy Award Winner for Best Actor 2012 in '' The Artist'') released in May 2016. In May 2016, a

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supporter uploaded on YouTube an adaptation of "Freed from Desire" titled 'Will Grigg's on Fire', in recognition of the recent goal-scoring feats of

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, a Wigan player. Since it was uploaded, the song has become a viral football chant. Fans from Northern Ireland, Ireland, Wales and France made their own version of the song for their players. The song has become the unofficial song of

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2017–present

Throughout 2017 and 2018 Gala headlined the 'Love the 90s' tour in Spain, with shows for over 20.000 people at the

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, the

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in Bilbao Palau Saint Jordi in Barcelona, the Wiziink Center in Madrid, Parque Hermanos Castro in Gijon La Alcazaba in

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and Can Fusteret in

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. In that same year Gala also headlined the

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party at Teatro Barcelo, as part of the

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festivities in Madrid in July, and the Highway Festival in Fribourg, Switzerland in December 2017 On 30 June 2018 Gala headlined the Gay Pride concert held in the main square

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in Barcelona. Gala wrote and composed two original songs alongside Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Jesse Ruben and Kyle Patrick, " Happiest Day of My Life" mixed by Miles Walker and "Nameless Love" with co-production and mixing by Andros Rodrigues, for the movie Favola (Fairytale). The movie, a surrealist comedy about gender identity and liberation from social constraints in 1950s America, was written and directed by Sebastiano Mauri and featured

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and Lucia Mascino. The costumes are the result of the collaboration with Fabio Zambernardi, the director of design of

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and

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. Premiering at the 2018

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, Favola was screened at the prestigious 45th annual

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in June, where it won the Flaiano Award for best "Opera Prima" The movie soundtrack was released in June 2018. Gala's indie label, Matriarchy Records is releasing the original songs "Happiest Day of My Life" and " Nameless Love" as individual singles on 15 September. Gala has performed at the last game for the qualifications for the

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(Belgium-Cyprus) live streamed worldwide and was honored by

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on behalf of the National Belgian Soccer Team, THE RED DEVILS with a national team jersey after her live performance. In 2021, Gala released the song "Parallel Lines". The video is a collaboration with American animator, TED speaker, and free culture activist Nina Paley. Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film
Sita Sings the Blues
', which has been screened in over 200 film festivals and won over 35 international awards (''Berlin International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Spirit Award, New York Critics pick).'' Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to produce a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom. "Parallel Lines" explores the relationship of two lovers who are drifting apart while living under the same roof. A short documentary “Behind The Song” was released soon after shot by Francesca Pagani whose work has been published on Vice.Us. The documentary speaks about the creative process behind the songwriting and the reason why Gala felt the urge to release the song during current pandemic times. It features parts of Parallel Lines’s music video, and of Nina Paley’s other award winning animations. In March of 2021, Gala was interviewed by Rolling Stone Italy and Rolling Stone Mexico. Both articles discussed her new release and featured the video of 'Parallel Lines'.

Other work

Gala has also worked as a songwriter for classical musicians like

Salvatore Licitra Salvatore Licitra (10 August 1968 – 5 September 2011) was an Italian operatic tenor. Early life and debuts Born in Bern, Switzerland, to Sicilian parents, Licitra grew up in Milan. He fell into opera by accident. As many tenors before him, he ...

and Marcelo Álvarez on the album ''Duetto'' and

Mario Frangoulis Mario Frangoulis ( el, Μάριος Φραγκούλης, Mários Frankoúlis; born 18 December 1967) is a Greek vocalist and theatre actor, famous for his refined tenor vocals. Born in Rhodesia, Frangoulis after his three decade long career has ...

. She remains an avid photographer, with many of her photos appearing on her official website.Live + More
. Galasound (11 April 2009). Retrieved 14 May 2012.

Discography

Albums

Singles

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gala English-language singers from Italy 1975 births Singers from Milan Italian dance musicians Eurodance musicians Italian expatriates in the United States Living people 21st-century Italian singers 21st-century Italian women singers