Her first album was released in 1976 but her hit was in 1979 with the single America and the album California, which became a success in several European countries. The rise to fame in Italy started in 1984 with the release of her sixth album, Puzzle. This album peaked in the top 10 at the Italian, German, Austrian and Swiss hit-parades. She sang for the videoclip Fotoromanza (directed by Michelangelo Antonioni), won several musical awards and started a European tour, including a participation at the Montreux Jazz Festival. In 1986 her hit Bello e impossibile was a huge success and brought her more awards in Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Her 1987 compilation Maschi e altri sold over a million copies.
In 1990 she sang Un'estate italiana, the official song of the Football World Cup 1990, together with Edoardo Bennato.
She graduated in philosophy from the University of Siena in 1994. The following year she took part in a protest organized by Greenpeace at the French embassy in Rome against the decision of the French government to pursue nuclear experiments at Mururoa.
Her album Grazie was released in February 2006, and has peaked at number one of the Italian hit-parade with the single Sei nell'anima. After this two more released and another one is planned for 2011titled: "Io e te".
Fantasia
Gianna Nannini Lyrics
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Si è rinchiuso in me
Roccia in mezzo al vento è l'anima
La spontaneità per spiegare me
Ha raggiunto già l'inutile
Fantasia spazio per sentirmi mia
Fantasia di emozioni e delusioni
Credere poi ricredersi e tutto sommato
Dopo scegliersi sola io sola io
Intreccio le mie mani
Sola io sola io fiducia nel domani mio
Fantasia spazio per sentirmi mia
Fantasia di emozioni e delusioni
Credere poi ricredersi e tutto sommato
Dopo scegliersi sola io sola io
Intreccio le mie mani
Sola io sola io fiducia nel domani mio
In Gianna Nannini's song "Fantasia," the lyrics express a sense of exhaustion and emotional strain: "Stanco il sentimento" ("The feeling is tired"), "Si è rinchiuso in me" ("It has closed off within me"). This perhaps symbolizes a sense of being weighed down by emotions that have become too much to handle. The metaphor of "roccia in mezzo al vento" ("rock in the midst of the wind") suggests a feeling of being battered and tossed about by life's challenges, with no clear way out.
However, the chorus offers a ray of hope in the form of "fantasia" ("fantasy/imagination"). This represents a space where the singer can truly be herself and feel fully alive ("spazio per sentirmi mia"). The use of the word "fantasia" suggests a sort of escape from reality, but also a source of creativity and inspiration. The lines "Intreccio le mie mani / Sola io sola io fiducia nel domani mio" ("I intertwine my hands / Alone, I have faith in my tomorrow") further suggest the singer's resolve to face life's challenges on her own terms.
Overall, "Fantasia" seems to be a song about finding strength and hope in difficult times, and about the importance of relying on one's own creativity and imagination to overcome obstacles.
Line by Line Meaning
Stanco il sentimento
My feeling is tired
Si è rinchiuso in me
It has closed up inside me
Roccia in mezzo al vento è l'anima
My soul is a rock in the middle of the wind
La spontaneità per spiegare me
Spontaneity to explain myself
Ha raggiunto già l'inutile
Has already reached uselessness
Fantasia spazio per sentirmi mia
Fantasy, space to feel like myself
Fantasia di emozioni e delusioni
Fantasy of emotions and disappointments
Credere poi ricredersi e tutto sommato
Believing, then doubting, and all in all
Dopo scegliersi sola io sola io
After choosing myself, alone, just me
Intreccio le mie mani
I interlace my hands
Sola io sola io fiducia nel domani mio
Alone, just me, trusting in my own tomorrow
Fantasia spazio per sentirmi mia
Fantasy, space to feel like myself
Fantasia di emozioni e delusioni
Fantasy of emotions and disappointments
Credere poi ricredersi e tutto sommato
Believing, then doubting, and all in all
Dopo scegliersi sola io sola io
After choosing myself, alone, just me
Intreccio le mie mani
I interlace my hands
Sola io sola io fiducia nel domani mio
Alone, just me, trusting in my own tomorrow
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Gianna Nannini
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