aniela Miglietta (born 12 November 1969, Taranto), is an Italian singer. She released 10 albums in all and two million copies of her records were sold.
Biography
She started her career as a model and as a radio actress.
In 1988 she took part in the Sanremo Music Festival in the New comers category with Sogno. Has not happened, but it is noticed by the melodic songwriter Amedeo Minghi, who writes for her the song Canzoni the following year. Mietta wins the New comers category and the critics award Mia Martini. In the same year she won her first platinum album and the Telegatto as best new artist of 1989, with the votes of Italians.
In 1990 Amedeo Minghi, yet his talent as a scout, a duet with her in Vattene amore, the song that won third place in the SanRemo Festival and is interpreted into English 'All for the Love' by Nikka Costa. The song also won the OGAE, an international song contest, and become an evergreen, winning ten gold records. Her debut album, also entitled "Canzoni", won seven times platinum and is published throughout Europe. In 1990 she won again 2 Telegattos: One for the song of the year and the other award for best female artist of the year.
She returned back to SanRemo Festival in 1991 with Dubbi no, sung in English by Leo Sayer, and wins another Telegatto as the female artist of the year. Her second album "Volano le pagine", which contains a cover version of Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?), won two platinum record.
In 1992 she releases "Lasciamoci respirare" album and in 1994 "Cambia pelle", besides two duets with Riccardo Cocciante and another SanRemo with Figli di chi, song written by Nek.
n 1995 Mietta continues in the musical experimentation, tackling different types of music, from soul to blues, from hip hop to trip hop album "Daniela è felice". Her music video Oggi Dani è più felice won the MTV award in England as the best foreign video transmitted over the year.
In 1996 she dubbed Esmeralda's role (both speaking and singing) in Walt Disney's cartoon classic "Hunchback of Notre Dame", she appeared in Zucchero's video "Menta e rosmarino" and later debutes as an actress in "La Piovra" which was a popular Italian series.
In 1998 she`s back to music with "La mia anima ", album with cover songs of popular black music. In 2000 she again took part in the SanRemo Festival with Fare l'amore, a song composed by Mango and contained in her first greatest hits "Tutto o niente."
In 2002 she gets a new role for dramatic actress in the TV film Donne di mafia. Electro-pop and arabesque sounds for the 2003 album Per esempio...per amore, produced and written by Mango.
In 2004 she duets with Morris Albert in SanRemo Festival with Cuore and in 2005 she participated in a talent show conducted by Simona Ventura, titled Music Farm.
In 2006, after a single R&B Bugiarda, she released a pop-rock album "74100", as the postal code of Taranto (Mietta's city). In album also two US songwriters: Martin Briley and Dee Kay.
In 2008 Mietta celebrates its 20th anniversary as an artist, returning for the 8th time at the Sanremo Music Festival with Baciami adesso, song on the album Con il sole nelle mani.
In 2011, after having become a mother for the first time, Mietta returns on the music scene with a new album dedicated to human frailty and entitled "Due soli...". The album, poised between pop and rock, there are two tributes to two women: Marilyn Monroe and Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. In the same year she debuted as a novelist with his first novel about women,"L'albero delle giuggiole", and reads the audiobook "L'ultimo elfo", a fantasy written by Silvana De Mari.
Discography Canzoni, 1990 Volano le Pagine, 1991 Lasciamoci Respirare, 1992 Cambia Pelle, 1994 Daniela è Felice, 1995 La Mia Anima, 1998 Tutto O Niente, 2000 Per Esempio...Per Amore, 2003 74100, 2006 Con il Sole nelle Mani, 2008 Due soli..., 2011
Cover Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?) of Sarah Vaughan / Billie Holiday, 1991 Just the Two of Us (Dentro L'Anima) of Bill Withers / Grover Washington Jr., 1995 Watch Your Step (Un Passo Falso) of Anita Baker, 1998 Hot Stuff (Musica che scoppia) of Donna Summer, 1998 The Tracks Of My Tears (Una Strada Per Te) of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles/ Mica Paris / Aretha Franklin / Johnny Rivers, 1998 We All Need Love (Angeli Noi) of Double You, 1998 Body Talk (Battito) of Imagination, 1998 Second Time Around (Ancora Insieme a Te) of Shalamar, 2000
