Alexia

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Alexia Vassiliou

Alexia Vassiliou (Greek: Αλέξια Βασιλείου; born 5 February 1964), better known as Alexia, is a Cypriot singer, vocalist, musician, performer, composer, lyricist, and activist, associated with voice improvisation.

She has had a series of gold and platinum records, including one in Scandinavia, and a top 100 hit in the US, while she was still a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Her first album, Alexia, started a new wave of pop music in Greece and Cyprus, and sold over 500,000 copies, making it the most successful debut album by a Greek artist.

Alexia has collaborated with a number of distinguished artists, including Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Olympia Dukakis, Andreas Vollenweider, and Milva. For 10 years, she teamed up with Mikis Theodorakis, composer of Zorba the Greek. Alexia recorded a double album showcasing some of the composer's most consummate musical creations. In her jazz album, In a Jazz Mood, Alexia collaborated with Chick Corea and bassist John Patitucci. Alexia has also performed songs for the soundtracks of three films, Sacred Whispers, The Road to Ithaca and Safe Sex.

Alexia (Italian singer)

Alexia (born Alessia Aquilani, 19 May 1967) is an Italian singer. Before recording in Italian in the 2000s, she made records in English in the 1990s. Many of those were international hits. Before her solo career she was the vocalist of Ice Mc.

In her career she has sold over 6 million records with 10 top-ten single, of which 4 number-one hits and numerous international sales certifications. She has performed at the Festivalbar for nine times, and four times at the Sanremo Music Festival in which she has earned, besides several music critic awards, three second-places, and has won one in the 2003.

Career

Early work

Alexia was born in La Spezia, Liguria, and from a young age regularly entered singing talent competitions.

She started working for Italian label Euroenergy (by Disco Magic) in 1989 with the singles (Eurobeat/Hi NRG style) Alexia Cooper - Boy and Lita Beck – It's All Right. One year later she gave "Backing Vocals" in the singles Cinema and Scream by Ice Mc. Later she worked with producer Roberto Zanetti (better known as Robyx) in 1990, as a back-up singer to several of Zanetti's eurodance acts on his DWA label, including Double You and Ice MC and notably featured on many of the latter's biggest hits such as "Think About The Way" (on the Trainspotting soundtrack), "It's A Rainy Day" and "Russian Roulette". When Ice MC left DWA, Robyx turned his attention to Alexia, and the pair wrote the song "Me And You", which included the vocals of "Double You". The song was a big international hit and was followed the next year by "Summer Is Crazy" and "Number One", which again were international hits.

Ancora

Ancora is the second studio album released by classical crossover vocal group Il Divo. The album was released in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe on 7 November 2005, excluding the United States and Latin America. The album was later released in the United States and Latin America on 24 January 2006. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 on the week of releases. The album contains one song partially in Latin, one song performed in Italian, two songs performed in French, two songs performed in English, and six songs performed in Spanish, excluding the bonus track. The album features the single "I Believe in You", performed with Céline Dion, that is also featured on her international album, On Ne Change Pas.

This was recorded in both Sweden and London with producers Per Magnusson, David Kreuger and Steve Mac, who were also the producers of their first album. Released on 7 November 2005 in the UK, it hit number one both in the UK and Australia within one week. Ancora was released in the US on 24 January 2006. It entered the Billboard albums chart at number 1, selling more than 150,000 copies during its first week of sales.

Ancora (disambiguation)

Ancora is an album by operatic pop group Il Divo, released in 2005.

Ancora may also refer to: