Sultry voice, poetic lyrics and surprising harmonies are just a part of the recipe that makes Chiara's music so irresistible.
The distance she has traveled is both musical and spiritual-literally stretching across the Atlantic Ocean. Born in Rome, Chiara was encouraged to play the piano by her grandmother; she kids that her nonna's out-of-tune upright afforded the best ear training. She briefly tried the acoustic guitar, but that ended almost comically with a drive to get some gelato. "The little car only had two doors," she remembers. "When I sat down, I broke the neck of the guitar. That was it for me. No more guitar. My mother said, 'You'd better sing, girl!'"
Chiara had already been in some classical choirs, but was looking for something freer than the operatic traditions of her homeland. A friend suggested that she learn jazz; she'd never heard of it. A little investigation brought her to a private music school that she would attend through her four years of high school: the St. Louis Music Academy in Rome. When she was sixteen, Chiara began singing professionally and won a scholarship to the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston. She enrolled there from 1994-98. By the first year Chiara was a regular on the Boston club scene, performing with different bands.
But her journey didn't end with Boston or jazz. Chiara's move to New York City was inevitable. Searching for something musically closer to her Mediterranean roots, she immersed herself in Latin and Brazilian music, learning Spanish and Portuguese along the way. She also wrote her first song, "Parole Incerte" ("Uncertain Words"), about the misunderstandings that can come from the distance between a person and her loved ones.
Meanwhile, two of Chiara's bandmates - pianist Alain Mallet and drummer Jamey Haddad - had begun working with Paul Simon and invited her to a rehearsal. It was there that she met producer Russ Titelman and left him with a demo of "Parole Incerte." He called the very next day and insisted, "You are a songwriter. Forget about everything else you are doing. You have to write." Chiara began composing lyrics in English. She studied the work of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, James Taylor.
Titelman let president and CEO of Verve hear the song and the next day Chiara was offered a record deal that not only allowed her to enter the studio but made her the first Italian born to be signed by Verve Records.
From this series of encouraging and exciting encounters emerged the 10 original compositions included on her debut album LAST QUARTER MOON, Verve2005; seven written by herself and three co-writes, including the brooding ballad "Trouble" that was co-written with legend Burt Bacharach. "I had almost every song on the album," recalls Chiara, "when Russ called me to say that Burt Bacharach was interested in writing with me." "Trouble" came together during a three day session at Bacharach's Los Angeles home. Chiara arrived with an idea for the melody; they shaped and refined it as a team.
The first album granted her a first round of the world and great position in the charts of italy and Japan.
Billboard Magazine noted that, “the beauty, charm and allure of singer/pianist/songwriter Chiara Civello’s debut…makes for an auspicious beginning and marks the first revelation of the New Year.” The International Herald Tribune declared “her combination of personality, soulfulness and sophistication…striking.”
The second album The Space Between (2007 Universal Classic and Jazz) produced by Steve Addabbo , shows a more intimate and immediate side of the singer songwriter, leading us us through a journey of thirteen beautiful moments where we feel we can get really close to her.
“This is a record about ‘the space between’. The space between the notes, the silence between words, the space between me and you, me and my past, me and my future, and all the spaces between that nowadays are so difficult to stop and think about….the space between that makes you feel the reality better, the space that makes you miss someone, the space between that makes you not say everything all at once, but bit by bit, as the need of saying it gets stronger in you. The space between what I think and what I say… In Italy, we have a saying: Between saying and doing, there is the sea.”
The album entered successfully the Italian and Japanese chiarts and led her to new important artistic collaborations.
Definitely an itinerant soul, Chiara describes her life as:” My home is the world, as long as there’s a piano at the destination, my world fits in a suitcase, the rest I carry with me : my computer and my guitar.
"Jazz was the most incredible diving machine when it came to going really deep into music," says Civello, about her path of discovery, one sure to continue in the future. "But I knew I couldn't be the new Ella Fitzgerald; I couldn't be the new Shirley Horn. I learned all different kinds of music and then I said to myself, 'I need to find my own voice. Time to unlearn now, time to be free.' It's like a hot air balloon: To be able to fly you have to throw off the sandbags. I want to be as light as I can-light as a feather."
“In the first album you search, in the second you focus, in the third you find yourself…. and here I am,” says Chiara Civello in describing her third album titled “7752” of upcoming release.
7752 is the distance in Kilometers from New York City to Rio de Janeiro, the two cities that provided the inspiration for this album. New York is where Chiara lives, while Rio changed Chiara’s life…
While visiting her friend, Daniel Jobim, in Rio in February 2008, Chiara was taken to a party (known as SARAO) where artists and musicians of all kinds get together. The guitar went around and everyone sang a song. As Chiara shared, listened, and learned, a new phase of her artistic path began.
“Co-writing I was already familiar with,” says Chiara, “since those unforgettable three days spent in Santa Monica in which I wrote Trouble with Burt Bacharach for my first album…but in Brazil everyone co writes. It’s a big party, everyone shares and dares and makes it happen.”
Ana Carolina, a Brazilian pop star, is one of the main collaborators of 7752. Not only did she co-write five of the songs with Chiara, but she also played acoustic guitar on most of them. “We met at that party and she asked me if I had a melody for her, so the next day I started RESTA, a song that soon after we finished together and sang as a duet live in Sao Paulo.” Success has already accompanied the collaboration with Ana Carolina, as RESTA will be featured on the new Novela of Globo TV called “Passione,” starting on May 17, 2010.
Written between Rio, New York, and Trastevere (Rome), 7752 includes ten musical moments of which eight were recorded in NYC (and produced by the eclectic producer Andres Levin), while four were recorded in Rio and produced by Chiara herself.
“All my friends and favorite musicians merged into this record in the most natural way…it was like bringing the Rio spirit into the studio: Mauro Refosco (Thom Yorke, David Byrne, Forro’ in The Dark) and Guilherme Monteiro (Ron Carter, Forro in The Dark) had already recorded with me and I couldn’t possibly think of a record without them, Anat Cohen is one of my best friends and I have always wanted to have her on my album but we never were able to make it happen; Jaques Morelenbaum is one of the most talented and sentimental musicians I have ever met; Mark Ribot was the perfect guy for these songs, not to mention the great rhythm section that Andres brought in the studio, Gene Lake on the drums and Jonathan Maron on the bass. Ana Carolina who wrote most of the songs with me already owned them on the acoustic guitar and added her tremendous groove to them”.
Already defined as an “enticing and contagious” album, 7752 sounds lively, while portraying a new, playful and joyous aspect of Chiara’s singing and songwriting. The sound is a beautiful alchemy among the 60s, Italian melody, Brazilian harmonies, and R&B.
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8 Storie
Chiara Civello Lyrics
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Potrei star tranquilla
Però mi sento che quì
Qualcosa si sveglia
Giovanni mi chiama ancora
Con Luca ho imparato a guidare
Per Paolo ballavo da sola
Finché in pista non è sceso Nicola
A Giorgio ho detto solo bugie
A Juan solo bugie in spagnolo
Per Giulia ero pane e miele
E con lei dimenticavo Gabriele
Tutte le donne incontrate dentro di me
Ridono piangono vogliono un uomo ognuna per se,
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io:
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
Con te mi sentivo sola
Per te non sapevo aspettare
In tutti cercavo il futuro
Che nessuno mi può regalare
Ma Tutto l'amore trovato dentro di me
Rubalo accendilo usalo, gettalo
E fallo soltanto per te
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io:
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
The lyrics to Chiara Civello's song '8 Storie' speak of the singer's experiences with eight individuals, each represented by a name. Each individual represents a story, and the singer is reflecting upon these stories and the lessons they hold. The chorus urges the listener to take everything that the singer is - including love, tears, dreams, lies, and forgiveness - and use it to find their own meaning and purpose.
The first verse makes reference to four individuals: Giovanni, Luca, Paolo, and Nicola. Each of these individuals represents a different experience for the singer. For example, the line "Per Paolo ballavo da sola/Finché in pista non è sceso Nicola" suggests that the singer found joy in dancing alone until Nicola joined her on the dancefloor. The second verse refers to four different individuals: Giorgio, Juan, Giulia, and Gabriele. Here, the references to lies and deceit suggest that these individuals were not positive experiences for the singer.
The chorus of the song is a call to action, urging the listener to take everything that the singer is - including love, tears, dreams, lies, and forgiveness - and use it to better themselves. The lines "Prenditi tutto quello che sono io, / Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio" encourage the listener to take everything the singer has learned and find the strength to move forward with their own life.
In summary, '8 Storie' is a song about reflection, self-improvement, and the power of our experiences to shape us. With its introspective lyrics and catchy melody, it is a song that encourages listeners to take everything they are and use it to make a positive change in their own lives.
Line by Line Meaning
Dopo 8 storie così
After experiencing eight different love stories
Potrei star tranquilla
I could relax and be at peace
Però mi sento che quì
But I feel that something inside of me is awakening
Qualcosa si sveglia
Something is stirring within me
Giovanni mi chiama ancora
Giovanni still calls me
Con Luca ho imparato a guidare
I learned how to drive with Luca
Per Paolo ballavo da sola
I used to dance alone for Paolo
Finché in pista non è sceso Nicola
Until Nicola entered the scene and joined me on the dance floor
A Giorgio ho detto solo bugie
I only told Giorgio lies
A Juan solo bugie in spagnolo
I only told Juan lies in Spanish
Per Giulia ero pane e miele
Giulia and I had a perfect relationship
E con lei dimenticavo Gabriele
With her, I forgot about Gabriele
Tutte le donne incontrate dentro di me
All the different versions of myself I've encountered
Ridono piangono vogliono un uomo ognuna per se
Laugh, cry, and try to find their own man individually
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Take everything that I am
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Use that courage, not just to say goodbye
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
Love, tears, dreams, lies, and forgiveness
Con te mi sentivo sola
I felt alone with you
Per te non sapevo aspettare
I didn't know how to wait for you
In tutti cercavo il futuro
I was searching for my future in everyone
Che nessuno mi può regalare
But no one can give me that
Ma Tutto l'amore trovato dentro di me
But all the love I've found within myself
Rubalo accendilo usalo, gettalo
Steal it, light it up, use it, throw it away
E fallo soltanto per te
And do it just for yourself
Writer(s): Chiara Civello, Ana Carolina De Souza
Contributed by Kennedy F. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@luluosoares
Dopo 8 storie così
Potrei star tranquilla
Però mi sento che quì
Qualcosa si sveglia
Giovanni mi chiama ancora
Con Luca ho imparato a guidare
Per Paolo ballavo da sola
Finché in pista non è sceso Nicola
A Giorgio ho detto solo bugie
A Juan solo bugie in spagnolo
Per Giulia ero pane e miele
E con lei dimenticavo Gabriele
Tutte le donne incontrate dentro di me
Ridono piangono vogliono un uomo ognuna per se,
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io:
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
Con te mi sentivo sola
Per te non sapevo aspettare
In tutti cercavo il futuro
Che nessuno mi può regalare
Ma Tutto l'amore trovato dentro di me
Rubalo accendilo usalo, gettalo
E fallo soltanto per te
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io:
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
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@luluosoares
Dopo 8 storie così
Potrei star tranquilla
Però mi sento che quì
Qualcosa si sveglia
Giovanni mi chiama ancora
Con Luca ho imparato a guidare
Per Paolo ballavo da sola
Finché in pista non è sceso Nicola
A Giorgio ho detto solo bugie
A Juan solo bugie in spagnolo
Per Giulia ero pane e miele
E con lei dimenticavo Gabriele
Tutte le donne incontrate dentro di me
Ridono piangono vogliono un uomo ognuna per se,
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io:
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
Con te mi sentivo sola
Per te non sapevo aspettare
In tutti cercavo il futuro
Che nessuno mi può regalare
Ma Tutto l'amore trovato dentro di me
Rubalo accendilo usalo, gettalo
E fallo soltanto per te
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io,
Il coraggio usalo, non solo per dire addio
Prenditi tutto quello che sono io:
Amore, lacrime, sogni, bugie e perdono
@psicosoma404
Grazie per la lettera
@annaabrams4225
Beautiful song and arrangement, but most of all, a beautiful voice. Chiara Civello is amazing!
@thainaralima3368
Essa Musica e Linda ainda mais em italiano
@stefaniacolucci5172
questa canzone è bellissima! peccato non sia conosciuta abbastanza
@damoralpralee5125
Uma menina refinada.
@gracacruz9849
Mas que refinada umaDiva prá ninguem por defeito. Sou apaixonada por ela ! Meu doce preferido.
@antoniothom482
🌹💐Che voce sensuale.
@cristina-vv6fw
que maravilha