As a singer, Emma Marrone only uses her first name. Since 2010, she’s one of Italy’s biggest female artists, and rightfully so. Next year, it’s exactly 10 years since she rose to prominence by winning TV talent show ‘Amici di Maria De Filippi’. Coinciding with this jubilee, she’ll put out her sixth album, the follow-up to last year’s Essere Qui.

The album is preceded by her new single Io Sono Bella (‘I am beautiful’). It was written by Italian household names Vasco Rossi and Gaetano Curreri with young composers Gerardo Pulli and Piero Romitelli. A pop-rock stomper that deserves to break out of Emma’s home country.

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Werner Schlosser

Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.