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Alexia (born Alessia Aquilani, 19 May 1967) is an Italian singer.
Before recording in Italian in the 2000s, she made records in English in the 1990s. Many of those were international hits. Before her solo career she was the vocalist of Ice Mc.
In her career she has sold over 6 million records with 10 top-ten single, of which 4 number-one hits and numerous international sales certifications. She has performed at the Festivalbar for nine times, and four times at the Sanremo Music Festival in which she has earned, besides several music critic awards, three second-places, and has won one in the 2003.
Alexia was born in La Spezia, Liguria, and from a young age regularly entered singing talent competitions.
She started working for Italian label Euroenergy (by Disco Magic) in 1989 with the singles (Eurobeat/Hi NRG style) Alexia Cooper – Boy and Lita Beck – It’s All Right. One year later she gave “Backing Vocals” in the singles Cinema and Scream by Ice Mc. Later she worked with producer Roberto Zanetti (better known as Robyx) in 1990, as a back-up singer to several of Zanetti’s eurodance acts on his DWA label, including Double You and Ice MC and notably featured on many of the latter’s biggest hits such as “Think About The Way” (on the Trainspotting soundtrack), “It’s A Rainy Day” and “Russian Roulette”. When Ice MC left DWA, Robyx turned his attention to Alexia, and the pair wrote the song “Me And You”, which included the vocals of “Double You”. The song was a big international hit and was followed the next year by “Summer Is Crazy” and “Number One”, which again were international hits.
Their British Hit Singles, years, and top positions are:
- Me and You – 1995
- Summer Is Crazy – 1996
- Number One – 1996
- Uh La La La – 1997 – 10
- Gimme Love – 1998 – 17
- The Music I Like – 1998 – 31
- Keep On Movin’ – 1998
- Goodbye – 1999
- Happy – 1999
Info from Wikipedia
