Annalisa (Sinceramente)

Annalisa Scarrone (born 5 August 1985), better known as simply Annalisa or Nali, is an Italian singer-songwriter and record producer. After being part of two bands, Elaphe Guttata and leNoire (formerly Malvasia), she rose to the fame after coming in second in the tenth season of the Italian talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi (2010–2011). Subsequently, Annalisa participated at the Sanremo Music Festival 2013 with the song "Scintille", finishing ninth. Annalisa participated at the Sanremo Music Festival 2015 with the song "Una finestra tra le stelle" and finished fourth. In 2016, she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival with the single "Il diluvio universale" finishing eleventh, and again in the 2018 edition with "Il mondo prima di te", finishing third, and she finished seventh with "Dieci" in Sanremo 2021; she was once again selected to compete in Sanremo in 2024 with "Sinceramente", finishing third once again. In 2023, she topped the Italian singles chart for the first time with the song "Mon amour", becoming the first female soloist to do so in over three years. Throughout her career she has received several awards including a Global Force Award, the first award given at the Billboard Women in Music 2024 for an Italian artist, an MTV Europe Music Award, a Wind Music Award and a Lutezia Award for her songwriting, as well as nominations at the Kid's Choice Award and World Music Awards. In 2023 Forbes Italia listed Annalisa among "the 100 successful women in Italy" of the year. She has released 8 albums and 34 singles as a solo artist, receiving 45 platinum and 13 gold certifications and selling over 4 million copies in Italy, becoming the Italian female artist with most copies sold. She has also written songs for other artists including Gianna Nannini, Fedez, Benji & Fede and collaborated with Boomdabash, J-Ax, Antonello Venditti, Gianluca Grignani, Marcella Bella and Nomadi. From 2015 to 2019, she presented the documentary series Tutta colpa di ... on Italia 1, focusing on the scientists Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Charles Darwin and Leonardo da Vinci. In 2024, the main-belt asteroid (20014) 1991 RM29 has been named Annalisa in her honour.