Giuseppa Gaetana " Giusy" Ferreri (; born 17 April 1979) is an Italian singer and songwriter. In 2008, she took part in the first Italian edition of the talent show X Factor, coming in second place.
She topped the Italian Singles Chart 5 times, with the singles "Non ti scordar mai di me", "Novembre", diamond certified collaboration "Roma-Bangkok" with Baby K,
Ferreri has sold over 2.8 million copies worldwide to-date.[Giusy Ferreri's sales (total of 1,985,000 copies sold): https://www.facebook.com/SoundWorldMusic1/photos/a.1156405361043681.1073741828.1150794244938126/2174313589252848/?type=3&theater
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Non ti scordar mai di me EP (314,093 copies sold):
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For Gaetana (706,000 copies sold): + (Sales in Greece):
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For Fotografie (70,000 copies sold):
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For "Non ti scordar mai di me" (286,859 copies sold), "Novembre" (121,881 copies sold) and "Remedios" (12,075 copies sold):
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For "Ma il cielo è sempre più blu" (25,000 copies sold) and "Il mare immenso" (15,000 copies sold):
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For "Roma-Bangkok" (450,000 copies sold): FIMI website, Certifications
She has collaborated with many notable Italian singers, including Ornella Vanoni, Claudio Baglioni, Ron, Tiziano Ferro, J-Ax, Ermal Meta and Giuliano Sangiorgi.
Career
In June 2008,
Sony BMG released the debut EP by Ferreri, which includes her first single "Non ti scordar mai di me" written by Italian pop singer
Tiziano Ferro, and five covers of classic songs from the 1960s and 1970s. The single held the number one position of the Italian singles chart for fifteen consecutive weeks, becoming one of the most successful tracks ever on that chart. The album debuted at the top spot of the Italian album chart and stayed there for eleven consecutive weeks. It went on to be certified 4× platinum, denoting over 314,000 copies shipped.
Debut album: Gaetana
In October 2008, the song "Novembre", the first single from Ferreri's official debut album
Gaetana, was released. The tune debuted at number one in Italy and held the top spot for eight weeks so far. The album was released on 14 November 2008. It debuted at number one on the
iTunes Italy chart and subsequently peaked at 2 on the Italian
FIMI albums chart, behind Laura Pausini's album
Primavera anticipata, selling over 80,000 copies in its first week of release.
The album sold over 706,000 copies in Italy and Greece and was certified diamond by FIMI for selling more than 350,000 copies in the country. The second single from the album, "Stai fermo lì", was announced on 8 January 2009 and was released in Italy on 16 January 2009. The third single off the album was "La Scala (The Ladder)", originally written by
Linda Perry and translated into Italian by singer
Tiziano Ferro. The song peaked at No.27 on the
FIMI singles chart and at No.49 on the Greece Singles Chart.
Cover album: Fotografie
On 20 November 2009, her second studio album was released across Europe, debuting at No.10 on the Italian
FIMI albums chart. The first single is a cover of "Ma il cielo è sempre più blu" by
Rino Gaetano.
In her second studio album, Ferreri records cover versions of some of her favourite (Italian and international) artists: "La magia è la mia amante (I Was Made to Love Magic)" by Nick Drake, "Con una rosa" by Vinicio Capossela and Paolo Benvegnù, "Il mare verticale (Portrait the Sea)" by Jerome Kern, "Yesterdays" (song played in the past by Billie Holiday), "Ciao amore ciao" by Luigi Tenco and "Estate" by Bruno Martino. In 2010, the rapper Marracash and Ferreri released the single "Rivincita". The song was the single from the Marracash album Fino a qui tutto bene.
Third album: Il mio universo
On 16 February 2011
her third studio album was released across Europe, debuting at No.13
and peaked at number one
on the Italian FIMI albums chart and No.98
on the Swiss Album chart. The first single is "Il mare immenso" released on the very same day,
written by
Bungaro. The first single taken from her third studio album debuted at No.8
and peaked at No.6
on the FIMI Top 10 Singles Chart. "Il mare immenso" stayed for three months in the top fifty of the FIMI Singles Charts and peaked at number 5 on the Italian Radio Airplay Chart. Eventually, the song was awarded as the Best Sanremo Song at the "Premio Lunezia". The second and third singles, "Piccoli Dettagli" and "Noi brave ragazze", were written respectively by Rudy Marra and Bungaro. "Piccoli Dettagli" was chosen as the "Song of the summer" after a survey made by
Sky Italia
Fourth album: L'attesa, "Roma-Bangkok" and Hits
After participating in Sanremo with the single "Ti porto a cena con me", Giusy released the album
L'attesa which debuted and peaked at No.4 of the Italian Charts. Her second single, "La bevanda ha un retrogusto amaro", failed to enter the charts. In 2015, she came back with Baby K for the single "
Roma-Bangkok". The song was extremely successful in many European countries.
It remained on top of the Italian chart for eleven consecutive weeks and later was certified
Fimi in Italy for selling more than 500,000 copies in the country.
"Roma Bangkok" was the best-selling hit of 2015 and so far it is the most watched Italian-language music video on YouTube with more than 250,000,000 views.
In November of the same year, Giusy released her first greatest hits,
Hits, which was certified gold for selling more than 25,000 copies.
The lead single "Volevo te" reached No.2 of the Italian Airplay charts and was certified platinum by
Fimi.
Fifth album: Girotondo
In 2017, Giusy came back to Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Fa talmente male" and released the album
Girotondo which debuted and peaked at No.11.
The second single "Partiti adesso" reached number one on the Italian Airplay Charts and was certified platinum by FIMI.
The third single "L'amore mi perseguita" featuring
Tiromancino peaked at No.6 of the Italian Airplay charts.
Giusy took part in the seventeenth edition of the talent show
Amici di Maria De Filippi. She was one of the teacher/judges together with Rudy Zerbi,
Paola Turci, Alessandra Celentano and Veronica Peparini.
In the summer of 2018, Takagi & Ketra chose Ferreri to be the female voice of the song "Amore e capoeira", which spent 12 weeks at number one of the Italian Charts and reached No.2 in Switzerland.
In January 2019, Giusy released "Le cose che canto": the song was written by Dario Faini and Tommaso Paradiso.
On 24 June 2020, a collaboration with the singer Elettra Lamborghini was announced, and on 29 June, the song "La Isla" was released. The song peaked at No.22 of the Italian Single Charts and was the 93rd best-selling single of the year in Italy. "La Isla" was produced by Takagi & Ketra. In November 2020, the song was certified Platinum by the Italian Federation of Music. In May 2021, Takagi & Ketra renovated for the third time the collaboration with Ms Ferreri with the single "Shimmy Shimmy", a dance pop song with an Arabic Touch. The song went viral on TikTok thanks to the video choreography. "Shimmy Shimmy" debuted at No.82 of the Italian Single Charts and eventually peaked at No.22 reaching the Platinum Certification for more than 70,000 copies sold in the country. The song managed to reach the No.4 of the Italian Airplay radio.
Discography
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2008 – Non ti scordar mai di me
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2008 – Gaetana
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2009 – Fotografie
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2011 – Il mio universo
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2014 – L'attesa
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2015 – Hits
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2017 – Girotondo
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2022 – Cortometraggi
TV programmes
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X Factor, second edition (Rai 2, 2008) contestant -second place
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Amici di Maria De Filippi, seventeenth edition (Canale 5, 2017–2018) teacher-judge
Awards and nominations
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