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Marco Carta 
Marco Carta, Sanremo 2009Background information Born May 21, 1985 Origin Cagliari, Italy Genres Pop Years active 2007–present Website Official website Marco Carta (born May 21, 1985 in Cagliari, Italy) is an Italian singer. In 2009, he had sold 350,000 albums and 150,000 singles.
Contents
Biography and career
Early life and victory to "Amici"
In 2007, he participated as a singer in the Talent Show Amici di Maria De Filippi. On 16 April 2008, he won the competition with 75% of the public preferences,[1] obtaining an award of 300,000 euros, and a contract with Warner Music Italy. After the victory, he participated as a guest on many television programs, such as Wind Music Awards, and the Partita del Cuore 2008.
Ti rincontrero and the first successes
Marco Carta in a concert in Rome.
Marco presented a live preview of his first single "Ti Rincontrerò", during the radio program Viva Radio 2 on 6 June 2008. "Ti rincontrerò", based on the album, was released on June 13 by Warner Music Italy / Atlantic. The album contains 11 tracks, including a duet with Luca Jurman (his vocal coach in the talent show Amici). A week after the launch, the album debuted at third place in the standings FIMI / Nielsen with over 40 thousand copies sold and got the gold disc.[2] Subsequently, in August, the album reached the 70 thousand copies sold mark, achieving platinum status. On September 6, in MTV's Total Request Live, Carta announced that "Ti rincontrerò" will be launched in Spain, Central America and South America. On 4 July 2008, he began his first tour of Italy, which ended in October, raising a total of more than 200 thousand visitors .[3] On December 31, 2008, Marco was the protagonist of a New Year's concert in his hometown, in which 70 thousand spectators had gathered.[3] On October 3, 2008, he published an album about the tour, "In concerto", which debuted at the twentieth place in sales charts FIMI and Nielsen [4] and after the second week comes to the tenth place.[4] Marco was also the star of the 2008 Challenge sponsored by MTV, Marco Carta @ Your School: an institution hosted the concert of Messina.[5] On 1 December, during the second edition of the What's Up International Award for Young Talents, he was awarded the prize Best Young Talent 2008 (Best Male Vocalist).[6] He joined the animated film Impy superstar - Mission Luna Park as voice and interpreter of the cover That's the Way (I Like It) inserted in the soundtrack.[7]
The victory at the Festival di Sanremo and La forza mia
Marco Carta on the stage of the Festival di Sanremo 2009.On February 21, 2009, he won the 59th San Remo Festival in the category Artists with the song "La forza mia" written by Paolo Carta, the producer, songwriter and guitarist of Laura Pausini, winning 57.62% of the preference votes of the public[8][9] On February 20, he published and released his third album, "La forza mia". Just four days from the exit, "La forza mia" wins platinum status with over 80 thousand copies sold.[10] and debuted in third place in FIMI.[11] After the second week of publishing, the album from 3rd exit switches to the 2nd position in the leader FIMI.[11] His second single, Dentro ad ogni brivido, was released in April 2009. On May 16, Carta won the awards Man of the Year and Best #1 of the year, in TRL Awards 2009.[12][13] The "Marco Carta Tour 2009" started on April 30, which had a great success of the public, to the point that some dates are canceled for excessive affluence.[14] That same year, Carta wins two Wind Music Award for discs of platinum albums achieved with "Ti rincontrerò" and "La forza mia" (plus a special prize RTL 102.5), the premium Sirmione Catullo 2009 as the revelation of the year, and then the Venice Music Awards 2009 as the best artist of the year. On September 16, after 5 months, concludes the summer tour and on September 26, his song "Dentro ad ogni brivido" is voted as the most representative song of summer 2009 as the MTV CocaCola The Summer Song.
Music
In 2008, he released his debut single, "Per Sempre". The single did fairly well in Italy and peaked at #44 on the Italian FIMI chart and #18 on the Italian iTunes chart. The single was included in the album Ti Brucia, also released in 2008, with songs by him and other contestants of the TV show Amici di Maria de Filippi.
His debut album Ti Rincontrerò was released on June 13, 2008 and debuted #3 on the Italian charts. It sold over 40,000 copies during the first week. Current data shows that the album has sold about 70,000 copies. In concerto is his first live CD/DVD and was released on October 3, 2008.
He won the Festival of Sanremo in the month of February 2009 with the single La forza mia. The album "La forza mia" sold 70,000 copies in Italy in just one week, reaching platinum status. Currently, the album sold about 125,000 copies in Italy.
On May 25, 2010, he released his third studio album "II Cuore Muove". The album sold about 30.000 copies and it has been certified gold.
Il cuore muove
Anticipated by the hit Quello che dai, the 25 May 2010 is released Il cuore muove. Carta in an interview has declared :"It's a work, made for many months. I wanted to choose my own tracks step by step to better understand how good they were." [15]
From the album, that has reached the second position of the Italian chart,[16] it has been estracted the single Niente più di me.
In 2011 Il cuore muove became golden disc and the artist was awarded in the Wind Music Awards.
Awards
- 2008
- First place of the seventh edition of the talent show Amici di Maria De Filippi
- Platinum disc with the album Ti Rincontrerò
- Golden disc with the album In concerto
- Internation Award What's Up Young Talents as best debuting voice
- Soundsblog Award 2008 as the most voted artist from the Web's fans.
- 2009
- First place of the cinquantanovesima edizione of Festival di Sanremo.[17]
- Platinum disc with the album La forza mia
- Wind music Award how Platinum Album for La forza mia e Ti rincontrerò
- Plate of the Mayor and the Municipal School of Music in Cagliari, certifying "Distinguished Citizen'
- Award TRL Awards 2009 as Uomo dell'anno (Man of the year)
- Award TRL Awards 2009 as Miglior #1 dell'anno (Best #1 of the year) per il singolo La forza mia
- Special Award "RTL 102.5" in Wind Music Awards 2009[18] as being the most voted artist in the radio's website
- Double Award Wind Music Awards 2009 for the Platinum albums, obtained in the last year with the albums Ti rincontrerò and La forza mia
- Award Sirmione Catullo 2009 as revelation of the year
- Award Venice Music Awards 2009 as Best Artist of the year
- Award MTV CocaCola The Summer Song 2009 - First classified with the singleDentro ad ogni brivido
- 2011
- Award TRL Awards 2011 as Best talent show artist.
- Golden disc with the album Il cuore muove
- Wind Music Award how Gold album for Il cuore muove
Discography
Album studio
Year Album Chart peak positions Copies sold. Certification ITA[19] SVI[20] 2008 Ti rincontrerò - Released: 2008-06-13
- Label: Warner
3 — 60.000+[citation needed] Platinum 2009 La forza mia - Released: 2009-02-20
- Label: Warner
2 62 60.000+[citation needed] Platinum 2010 Il cuore muove - Released: 2010-05-25
- Label: Warner
2[21] — 30.000+[citation needed] Gold Il simbolo "—" indica che l'album non è entrato in classifica in quel Paese. Album live
Year Album Chart peak positions ITA[19] 2008 In concerto - Releasedo: 3/10/2008
- Label: Warner
10 Hits
Year Title Chart peak positions Album Italia[22] 2008 Per sempre — Ti rincontrerò Ti rincontrerò 11 2009 Anima di nuvola — Un grande libro nuovo — La forza mia 2 La forza mia Dentro ad ogni brivido 7 Resto dell'idea 6 Imagine 13 Singolo 2010 Quello che dai 1 Il cuore muove Niente più di me — Il simbolo "—" indica che il singolo non è entrato in classifica. References
- ^ Affaritaliani.it - Il vincitore/ Marco Carta, da "Amici" a Sanremo
- ^ "Marco Carta, un timido determinato". Da popon.it. http://www.popon.it/interviste/41-artisti-noti/931-marco-carta-un-timido-determinato.
- ^ a b Biografia dal sito Warner Music Italy
- ^ a b Italiancharts
- ^ Competition Marco Carta @ Your School - MTV.it
- ^ Marco Carta ritira il premio What's Up Giovani Talenti
- ^ Marco Carta doppiatore di Impy Superstar
- ^ Sanremo, Marco Carta vince il primo festival Raiset - LASTAMPA.it
- ^ Marco Carta vince il Festival, e Bonolis risuscita Sanremo
- ^ Soundblog.it - Marco Carta, “La Forza Mia” è già disco di platino
- ^ a b Italiancharts
- ^ Affaritaliani.it - Marco Carta canterà ai Wind Music Awards
- ^ Soundblog.it
- ^ Il Messaggero.it - Concerto sospeso per Marco Carta
- ^ Il cuore muove (2010-05-27). "INTERVISTA CON MARCO BALDINI SU RADIO KISS KISS". Radio Kiss Kiss. http://www.kisskiss.it/radio/ospiti/MARCO-CARTA.html.
- ^ "Il cuore muove su italiancharts.com". http://italiancharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Marco+Carta&titel=Il+cuore+muove&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-10-08.
- ^ Marco Carta vince il 59° Festival di Sanremo
- ^ Dal sito della radio.
- ^ a b "Scheda degli album di Marco Carta su italiancharts.com". http://italiancharts.com/search.asp?search=Marco+Carta&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ "Scheda degli album di Marco Carta su hitparade.ch". http://hitparade.ch/search.asp?search=Marco+Carta&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ "Classifica Fimi - Settimana 21 del 2010 - Artisti". http://www.fimi.it/classifiche_result_artisti.php?anno=2010&mese=05&id=317. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
- ^ Italiancharts Marco Carta - La forza mia
External links
Categories:- 1985 births
- Italian male singers
- Italian pop singers
- Reality show winners
- Sanremo Music Festival winners
- Living people
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