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Jalisse
Jalisse (Italian pronunciation: [ʒaˈlis]) is an Italian musical duo consisting of spouses Alessandra Drusian (born 18 May 1969) and Fabio Ricci (born 5 September 1965).
They won the "Big" category of the Sanremo Music Festival 1997 with the song "Fiumi di parole" and took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, where they ranked 4th.
The two met for the first time in 1990 in the studio of a record company. Drusian in that period competed with numerous victories in musical competitions in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Ricci was the singer and keyboardist of a group called Vox Populi, with whom he had released a maxi-single entitled "I'm So Bad" and presented himself as a songwriter to the record companies.
From 1990 to 1993 Drusian, after being launched by Pippo Baudo in the TV program Grand Premio, made a series of appearances on television broadcasts. In 1992 she found herself with Ricci: the two decided to work together and two years later they formed Jalisse, taking their name from a character in the television series The Cosby Show. The poet Younis Tawfik later revealed jalisse (جليس jalīs) in Arabic means "diner who knows how to entertain in the tale of fables and music: sit and listen".
In 1995 the duo participated in Sanremo Giovani (the Sanremo Music Festival competition for emerging artists) with the song "Vivo" ("Alive"), finishing third in the second evening and acquiring the right to participate in the Sanremo Festival proper the following year, where they ranked sixth in the "New proposals" section with the song "Liberami" ("Set Me Free").
In 1997 they participated again at the Festival, once again by right, thanks to the rule, introduced two years before and present for the last time, which allowed the non-winning finalists of the "New Proposals" section of the previous edition to compete for 4 places among the "Champions". The song, "Fiumi di parole", passed the selection and ranked first in the event, getting the Jalisse two prizes: the Golden Lion as winners of the Festival and the Silver Lion as authors (Alessandra Drusian and Carmen Di Domenico for the lyrics, Fabio Ricci the music). This victory turned out to be among the most debated in the history of the Festival, for the controversial aftermath that followed. The song bore resemblance with "Listen to Your Heart" by Roxette, but no actions were taken in this regard because plagiarism was non-existent.
During the 1997 Sanremo week, the duo's debut album, Il cerchio magico del mondo ("The Magic Circle of the World"), was released. The result in terms of sales (50,000 copies) was below expectations, but due to the fact that the two had reached the Sanremo victory as unknown artists and with an unreleased album.
Two months later they took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 in Dublin with the same song, reaching the fourth place; there were speculations of boycott from the national broadcaster RAI, which revamped in 2009 when Gigi Vesigna, in his book Vox Populi, stated that the defeat of Jalisse at the event had been driven by RAI: if the duo had won, the Italian public TV would have had to organize the 1998 edition, an operation deemed commercially disadvantageous given the scarce interest of the Italian audience for this event. Italy withdrew from the musical competition until 2011.
Jalisse
Jalisse (Italian pronunciation: [ʒaˈlis]) is an Italian musical duo consisting of spouses Alessandra Drusian (born 18 May 1969) and Fabio Ricci (born 5 September 1965).
They won the "Big" category of the Sanremo Music Festival 1997 with the song "Fiumi di parole" and took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997, where they ranked 4th.
The two met for the first time in 1990 in the studio of a record company. Drusian in that period competed with numerous victories in musical competitions in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia; Ricci was the singer and keyboardist of a group called Vox Populi, with whom he had released a maxi-single entitled "I'm So Bad" and presented himself as a songwriter to the record companies.
From 1990 to 1993 Drusian, after being launched by Pippo Baudo in the TV program Grand Premio, made a series of appearances on television broadcasts. In 1992 she found herself with Ricci: the two decided to work together and two years later they formed Jalisse, taking their name from a character in the television series The Cosby Show. The poet Younis Tawfik later revealed jalisse (جليس jalīs) in Arabic means "diner who knows how to entertain in the tale of fables and music: sit and listen".
In 1995 the duo participated in Sanremo Giovani (the Sanremo Music Festival competition for emerging artists) with the song "Vivo" ("Alive"), finishing third in the second evening and acquiring the right to participate in the Sanremo Festival proper the following year, where they ranked sixth in the "New proposals" section with the song "Liberami" ("Set Me Free").
In 1997 they participated again at the Festival, once again by right, thanks to the rule, introduced two years before and present for the last time, which allowed the non-winning finalists of the "New Proposals" section of the previous edition to compete for 4 places among the "Champions". The song, "Fiumi di parole", passed the selection and ranked first in the event, getting the Jalisse two prizes: the Golden Lion as winners of the Festival and the Silver Lion as authors (Alessandra Drusian and Carmen Di Domenico for the lyrics, Fabio Ricci the music). This victory turned out to be among the most debated in the history of the Festival, for the controversial aftermath that followed. The song bore resemblance with "Listen to Your Heart" by Roxette, but no actions were taken in this regard because plagiarism was non-existent.
During the 1997 Sanremo week, the duo's debut album, Il cerchio magico del mondo ("The Magic Circle of the World"), was released. The result in terms of sales (50,000 copies) was below expectations, but due to the fact that the two had reached the Sanremo victory as unknown artists and with an unreleased album.
Two months later they took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 in Dublin with the same song, reaching the fourth place; there were speculations of boycott from the national broadcaster RAI, which revamped in 2009 when Gigi Vesigna, in his book Vox Populi, stated that the defeat of Jalisse at the event had been driven by RAI: if the duo had won, the Italian public TV would have had to organize the 1998 edition, an operation deemed commercially disadvantageous given the scarce interest of the Italian audience for this event. Italy withdrew from the musical competition until 2011.