Oct. 21 – Her career began 20 years ago when, at the Sanremo Festival, she won with “La Solitude.” Since then, Laura Pausini has not ceased to conquer audiences and critics around the world, transforming from a teen idol into an icon of Italian music. Her powerful voice, strong authenticity, and originality allowed Laura to win the most prestigious international awards and reach across the international record market, from Latin America to Spain, Japan and France. From “La Mia Risposta” to “Io Canto,” with “Resta in Ascolto” and the more recent “Inedito,” Pausini’s records give emotions, passion, sensations, and love. Among her passions, we find that for her native land, Emilia Romagna, to which she is now “Ambassador in the world.” On the occasion of the 16th Festival Fanclub, held yesterday at the Palacattani in Faenza (Ravenna), the President of the Emilia Romagna Region, Vasco Errani, gave to the singer, born in Faenza 39 years ago, this special recognition. “It’s a great joy – said Errani – to share with an artist like Laura Pausini the love for this land and the values it represents in terms of culture, music, and lifestyle. I am sure that Laura will be a wonderful ambassador to these values and this life energy.” The Region has wanted to give this award to the artist – which comes on the eve of the worldwide release of Pausini’s “20 – The Greatest Hits” and a tour that will bring her to the world’s major cities – to emphasize the indissoluble bond that the joins her to her native land. Emilia Romagna was the backdrop to Laura’s success: a young student at the School of Art in Faenza, her willpower and courage sanctioned her worldwide successes. “I’m really proud of this recognition, I am in love with my region, Emilia Romagna is in my heart. – said Laura Pausini – For me it will be a real joy to talk to my fans of all that is beautiful, friendly, cheerful and hospitable of the territories where I grew up, both humanly and professionally.” The singer – already Commander of the Republic – is preparing for a tour that will take her to Puerto Rico, Mexico, the United States and Brazil. “The 20 Greatest Hits” and “The Greatest Hits World Tour” will be an opportunity to tell millions of people of her origins, her region, where the singer still lives with her family and her daughter Paola, born last February in Bologna. Emilia Romagna is the land of the soul, as stated in the regional tourism promotion campaign. The album and Pausini’s new project will be launched worldwide on November 12, but few know that they were both born in Emilia Romagna and that they show the best the region can offer. In terms of tourism and in cultural terms, the institutional meeting with Laura Pausini wants to bring across Italy and around the world specific life values and the singer’s extraordinary career, which represent in each fragment the value of Emilia Romagna.
Laura Pausini becomes an Ambassador for Emilia Romagna
