Io Canto
| Io canto | ||||
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Italian language edition
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| Studio album by Laura Pausini | ||||
| Released | 10 November 2006 | |||
| Recorded | Logic Studio Milan, Province of Milan, Italy Larione 10 Florence, Province of Florence, Italy Henson Recording Studios Los Angeles, California, USA Studio Impatto Bologna, Province of Bologna, Italy ORS (Oliveta Recording Studio) Castel Bolognese, Ravenna, Italy Sage Studio Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 1:08:07 | |||
| Language | Italian, French, Spanish | |||
| Label | Warner Music | |||
| Producer | Laura Pausini (also exec), Celso Valli, Dado Parisini, Daniel Vuletic | |||
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| Yo canto | ||||
Spanish language edition
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| Singles from Io canto | ||||
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Io canto is the ninth studio album by Italian singer–songwriter Laura Pausini, released by Warner Music on 10 November 2006. On 14 November, Warner Music released Io canto's Spanish language edition, Yo canto, for the hispanophone market. Yo canto–Io canto is a limited-edition double album featuring both the Italian– and Spanish-language editions. This marks the first instance in Pausini's multilingual music career in which both editions are offered in a single release. Warner Music issued a third edition pressed exclusively for the French market. This pressing of Io canto features the bonus track "Je chante", a partial French adaptation of the Italian "Io canto".
The album consists entirely of covers. Its repertoire spans three decades of Italian pop music history. Pausini pays homage to fellow Italian singer–songwriters whose lyrical work have influenced her artistic sensibility throughout the years. In the album's liner notes Pausini reveals:
Yo canto features "Dispárame, dispara", also known as "Corazón roto"—opening theme of the Mexican telenovela Amar sin límites (2006). Chile's Canal 13 employed the album's title track for its television series Cantando por un sueño. The album won the Latin Grammy in 2007 for Best Female Pop Vocal Album.
The decision to present a cover album stemmed from a "pending debt" to Pausini's musical roots and homeland. She first conceptualized the idea approximately ten years prior to Io canto's publication.[1] The idea, however, did not take root until Pausini's golden year in 2006 that culminated in a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for Escucha (2004) at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards. At the post–Grammy press conference, journalists remarked how they admired Pausini for never having abandoned her brand of "Italian pop of always" despite her classification as a "Latin music" artist. Alluding to Pausini's "Italian–ness," Randy Cordova for The Arizona Republic concurred, "She doesn't pander to the crowd with Latin guitars, reggaeton remixes or Cuban percussion. [Her music] is all very organic." This acknowledgement moved Pausini to honor Italy by recording a cover album of Italian "classics". Pausini also wished to export underappreciated Italian music to the world as a consequence of her multilingualism furthermore the album has sold over 2.500.000 copies worldwide.
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