Vivo por Ella
| "Vivo per lei" | ||||
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Cover from the duet version with Hélène Ségara
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| Single by Andrea Bocelli | ||||
| from the album Bocelli and Romanza | ||||
| B-side | "Voglio restare così" | |||
| Released | 1996 (Italian & Spanish versions) April 1997 (German version) December 1997 (French version) |
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| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 1995 | |||
| Genre | Operatic pop | |||
| Length | 4:23 | |||
| Label | Polydor, Polygram | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Gatto Panceri, Valerio Zelli | |||
| Producer(s) | Mauro Malavasi | |||
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| Giorgia (Giorgia Todrani) singles chronology | ||||
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| Hélène Ségara singles chronology | ||||
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"Vivo per lei" [ˈviːvo per ˈlɛi] (English: "I Live for Her") is a 1995 song recorded by Italian artist Andrea Bocelli as duet with Giorgia Todrani (under the stage name of "Giorgia" only) for his album Bocelli. The song was also released as a duet with other female artists, including Marta Sánchez in Spain and Spanish America, Hélène Ségara in francophone countries, Judy Weiss in German-speaking countries, Sandy Leah Lima in Brazilian Portuguese and Bonnie Tyler in English under the title "Live for Love", though due to record company disputes their version was never released.
The version with Marta Sánchez topped the Spanish singles chart in 1996 under the title Vivo por ella and is available on her album One Step Closer. The version with Ségara was released in December 1997 and became a hit in Belgium (Wallonia) and France where it reached number one on the charts. It was the fifth single from Ségara's first studio album, Cœur de verre. The version with Judy Weiss was also number one in Switzerland in 1997.
The song in Italian was originally written by the group O.R.O. (Manzani – Mengalli – Zelli) in 1995 for their album Vivo per.... The song won the "Disco per l'estate" edition of that year. During the same year, the lyrics of the song were rewritten, still in Italian, by Gatto Panceri and the song was relaunched as a duet between Andrea Bocelli and Giorgia. The new lyrics were characterized by the fact that lei ("her") in the title referred to music whereas in the original song lei referred to a girl.
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