Luisa Cottifogli

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She obtained a diploma in both singing (Conservatorio G.B. Martini) and acting (Accademia Antoniana) at Bologna. After having performed in the same city as a soprano at Teatro Comunale dell’Opera and as an actress at Teatro delle Moline (member of its company), she went on to experiment other vocal styles, singing early music, contemporary opera, jazz, traditional music from other countries. Thanks to a scholarship from Jazz Yatra Festival she has been studying Indian  vocal technique in Bombay. Most of her concerts are multimedial shows, a mix between vocal performances and images: “Velocity escape”(performance with solo voice, live electronics and video-installations) and “Aiò Nenè” (original music inspired by Italian traditional dialects) with videos by Gian Luca Beccari. “Rumì”(lyrics wholly taken from traditional Romagnolo dialect) is illustrated by Andrea Bernabini’s videos. Several art exhibitions such as Antonia Ciampi’s at Reale Accademia di Spagna in Rome (2006) or Enrico Benetta’s at Asolo and Treviso (2007) featured Luisa. She has not only appeared several times on RAI as a singer but she has also worked for this national radio-TV as a radio- broadcaster and gave her voice to several famous commercials. On 1999 she made her debut in Vienna live on-air on ORF (Austrian National Radio) as a vocalist-composer  with the concert “Aiò Nenè” (I come from the North but I am from the South). Then she appeared on TVE (Spanish National TV), SAT 2000 (Italian Satellite TV) and her concerts were broadcasted by RSI (Swiss National Radio). She performed at several festivals in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, United States, United Kingdom, Hungary  and India. Among her collaborations: The Chieftains, Guo Hue, Glauco Mauri (actor), Giovanna Marini (composer and ethnomusicologist), David Riondino, such Italian musicians as Teresa De Sio, Lucio Dalla, Ivano Fossati, Flavio Premoli (PFM), Andrea Parodi (Tazenda), Andrea Centazzo, Ambrogio Sparagna, Rita Marcotulli... After “Aiò Nenè” (2000) Luisa released her second cd as a vocalist-composer: “Rumì” (Forrest Hill Records 2006), awarded with “Imola in Musica Prize” and nomination at “Tenco Prize”(second in World Music category) . Several pieces of her have been inserted in international compilations. Singing in Italian and Arabic in 1997 she recorded the cd "Metissage" released by the Italian newspaper “Il Manifesto”, which featured Metissage ensemble (leaded by Gabriele Bombardini), Teresa De Sio, Rita Marcotulli and Ambrogio Sparagna. Together  with Marlevar, singing in Provencale language, she appeared in the Chieftains’ Italian tour 2002 and released the cd also intitled “Marlevar” (Forrest Hill Records 2002). Since 2005 she is Quintorigo’s vocalist: with this band she released three cds ( “Il cannone”, “Quinto” and “Quintorigo play Mingus” ) and two singles (“Redemption song”- Quintorigo for Amref  e “La nonna di Frederick”); with them she performed at Premio Tenco and appeared several times on RAI TV and Radio (Italian National TV and Radio) and Radio Deejay. Her new project, which came out at Ravenna Festival 2008, is dedicated to Anita Garibaldi, Garibaldi’s wife. In “Anita dei due mondi”- music by Luisa and Gianni Pirollo, scripts by Federica Iacobelli - Luisa performs as an actress-singer, directed by Enzo Vetrano and Stefano Randisi.
» Assigned style(s):	contemporary , experimental , jazz , world
» Assigned instrument(s):	percussions , vocals