To honor and remember Giuni Russo who passed away 20 years ago today's pick is Alice's cover of a song in Napoletan Giuni Russo and Maria Antonietta Sisini composed to a poem by Totò. The song first appeared recorded on Giuni's album Napoli che canta in 2004, five months before her passing. Alice later took it to her repertoire and it appears first on her 2009 live album Lungo la strada, and then ..read more

 Alice - Nata ieriIn 2012 Alice released her first studio album with new original songs in 14(fourteen!!!) years, Samsara. Among them a song Franco Battiato had written especially for her (Eri con me), a first since 1982!, a couple from Tiziano Ferro including this Nata ieri. The album included also three covers from Lucio Dalla, Giuni Russo and Califfi. Her fans had been waiting for this ..read more

In 2000 Alice returns to Sanremo . Apparently she didn't quite want to but that way as compromise she managed to release her God is my DJ album in 1999. Juri Camisasca wrote Il giorno dell'indipendenza for her and it became the lead single for her new compilation album My personal jukebox that included also two new songs besides this track and her biggest hits, some of them in new versions. She ..read more

In 2014 Alice was ready to make an unexpected return to Sanremo with a song written once again by Franco Battiato and Manlio Sgalambro titled Veleni. But artistic director Fabio Fazio didn't accept it so it ended up highlighting her 2014 album Weekend instead. This would have been her fourth Sanremo participation....L'avidità, l'odio, la rabbia, l'ignoranzaLa confusione, l'attaccamento, la ..read more

Anin a gris is an award winning song with lyrics written by Maria Di Gleria in Friulian language, and music composed by Marco Liverani. The song is taken from her 1989 Il sole nella pioggia album. For me this has always been a personla favorite and Friulian sounds very intriguing and beautiful. It's a language spoken by about 600.000 people in northeastern Friulu region in Italy. A nice ..read more

 Un'isola is a single released in 1977 and written by Carla Vistarini and Luigi Lopez  and later included on her second album Cosa resta.... un fiore. It's a typical sing-a-long song of those years and quite catchy and one of my favorites from that album. It was a minor hit back in the day but her greater success was yet to come.Profumano l'aria tiepida I fiori di mandarinoIl vento ..read more

 Come un sigillo was originally a Franco Battiato song featuring Alice with lyrics like "And you just ran your thin fingers over the foreskin, Then you touched the glans and the senses celebrated their splendor" in his 2002 album Fleurs 3 written by Battiato with philosopher Manilo Sgalambro. Alice changed that line of lyrics about hair and touche and and re-recorded for her Viaggio in ..read more

In 1998 Alice asked Skye from Morcheeba to join her in Open your eyes, a song written by herself with Francesco Messina, Juri Camisasca and Peter Hammill. I have heard rumors her original wish was none other than Kate Bush but then again it's just a rumour I heard back in the day. The song is taken from her Exit album as its first single, and would reapper in Personal Jukebox. The video was shot ..read more

Lungo ritorno a casa is taken from Alice's 1992 album Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi, and it also appears on her official greatest hits Viaggiatrice solitaria that was her last album with EMI in 1995. This came after EMI has previously released a compilation Il vento caldo dell'estate that Alice didn't approve, especially as it included a disco remix of the title song she had nothing to do with.&nbsp ..read more

 A song Alice has recorded twice, with different title is Rumba rock from her 1980 Capo nord album that reappeared in 1987 in her Elisir album as Hispavox. It's another song penned by the trio Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio and Alice and it has always been a favorite of mine, but never a sngle or promotional song as far as I know. Really makes me think of hot summer heat, dusty road and lazy ..read more