Biography
Patrizia Laquidara was born in Catania, on the island of Sicily. When she was very young her family moved to a small town in northern Italy, region Veneto, province of Vicenza, where she began studying music and playing in piano bars during weekends. In 1998 she attended a course at CET music school, as composer and singer of popular music of Lombardy and Veneto. This school is run by the well-known Mogol (lyricist), Mogol, who wrote the texts of Lucio Battisti songs. She is also interested in the music of many Mediterranean countries and in the music of central Europe and the Balkans, Balkan region. She often tours Italy with her group, the Hotel Rif. In 1999 one of her songs, "Stella nascente", was included on an album titled ''Canzoni per Ornella Vanoni e Mario Lavezzi'', but her true love at the time was for Brazilian music. Her first solo album, in 2001, was titled ''Para você querido Caé'' (For you, dear Caetano) and was dedicated to the Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso. Just after this album, her song "Agisce", written with the collaboration of Bungaro, won the ''Città di Recanati'' prize for best music and interpretation. In 2003, she participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Lividi e fiori" and won the Mia Martini Critics Prize and the Alex Baroni prize for best interpretation. The same year she released her second album, titled ''Indirizzo portoghese'', and sang its songs during the tour ''Indirizzo portoghese live''. At the same time, she developed many other projects, collaborating with the pianist Debora Petrina or composing songs for the soundtrack of the 2005 movie ''Manuale d'amore'', directed by Giovanni Veronesi. The song "Noite e luar", in Portuguese, became well known in Italy. In 2006, she participated in the international festival of ethnic and contemporary music named "Suoni dell'altro mondo" (Sounds from another world) and also in the Premio Tenco. In 2007, she released her third album, ''Funambola'', produced by Arto Lindsay and Patrick Dillett. The album was dedicated to the tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who walked on a steel wire between the towers of the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center in New York City. She also received the Gold Mask Prize for Popular Music Singer from the Bologna Conservatory. In 2008, she toured all around Italy with ''Funambola'' and sang in a musical theatre piece by Massimo Carlotto. She also performed with the pianist Alfonso Santimone, looking for electronic sonorities as well as rediscovering old Japanese songs, in this way showing all the eclecticism of her art. She also sang in the show ''Creuza de luna'', a poetical and musical journey starting in Italy and traveling to South America, Spain and Portugal. She participated in Etnafest in Catania, sang during the Festivalguer of Alghero and at the Cagliari Expo. Late in December, Patrizia presented a video from her song "Ziza", on a TV show on ''Rai Due''. During 2009 she participated on the show ''Musica dei cieli'' (Music of the skies) and was part of a traditional Italian Christmas songs concert in the big Rome Auditorium. She also performed the song "Su li stiddi" at the New Sicilian Song Festival then went to Lisbon for thDiscography
Albums
* ''Para você querido Caé'' (Audio Records/Velut Luna - 2001) * ''Indirizzo portoghese'' (Genius Records/Virgin Music - 2003) * ''Funambola'' (Ponderosa Music&Art - 2007) * ''Il Canto dell'Anguana'' (Indie Europe/Zoom - 2011)Singles
* Agisce (2003) * Lividi e fiori (2003) * Per causa d'amore * Indirizzo Portoghese * Parlami d'amore, Mariù * Le cose (2007) * Personaggio (2008) * Ziza (2008)Compilations
* Stella nascente, in the album "Canzoni per Ornella Vanoni e Mario Lavezzi" (1999) * Assenza, in the album "Capo Verde terra d'amore vol. I" (2009)Filmography
* ''Manuale d'amore'', directed by Giovanni Veronesi (2005)External links