Alice

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alice
Occupation	Singer-Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Sep 26, 1954(1954-09-26)
Age	70
Birthplace	Forli
Country	Italy
Horoscope	Capricorn

Alice Biography

Alice is one of the most popular and richest Singer-Songwriter who was born on September 26, 1954 in Forli, Italy. Alice (Italian pronunciation: [aˈliːtʃe] ; born Carla Bissi on 26 September 1954), also known as Alice Visconti, is an Italian singer-songwriter and pianist, active since

1971. Alice had her breakthrough after winning the Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Per Elisa” in 1981, followed by European hit singles like “Una notte speciale”, “Messaggio”, “Chan-son Egocentrique”, “Prospettiva Nevski” and “Nomadi” and albums like Gioielli rubati, Park Hotel, Elisir and Il sole nella pioggia charting in Continental Europe, Scandinavia and Japan.

A second album on CBS followed in late 1977, Cosa resta… Un fiore, recorded with the same team of producers, composers and musicians as the debut, including the singles “…E respiro” and “Un’isola” which also met with moderate commercial success.

After Bissi’s parting ways with EMI, the label and its Dutch mid-price subsidiary Disky Communications have continued to capitalise on the rights to her back catalogue, issuing a large number of hits compilations in various price ranges under titles like I grandi successi di Alice, Collezione, Le signore della canzone, Made in Italy, Studio Collection, The Best of Alice, Collezione Italiana etc., again mainly including early 1980s hits. The year of 2006 alone saw EMI releasing no less than four of these best of packages in Continental Europe, Scandinavia and Japan.

In early 1981 she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival with the song “Per Elisa”, composed by Bissi herself, Franco Battiato and his longtime co-writer, classical violinist Giusto Pio. The song was both lyrically and musically a modern paraphrase of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Für Elise” but it was by no means an archetypal sentimental Sanremo ballad. The rough rock track had lyrics which dealt with jealousy, betrayal, anger and revenge. For the live performance at the contest Bissi made full use of her vocal strength and range; one of the singer’s trademarks is the exceptionally low register of her contralto voice, “Per Elisa” is also partly sung in falsetto and thus covers close to four octaves. The unorthodox Sanremo entry and Bissi’s delivery of the song dressed in tight jeans and a leather jacket made a strong impression on both the juries and the TV audiences; “Per Elisa” won the contest, becoming one of the very first up-tempo rock tracks to do so and it became Bissi’s commercial breakthrough not only in Italy but also in the rest of Continental Europe, becoming a Top 10 hit also in Switzerland and Austria and most other parts of Western Europe, including Scandinavia. An album titled Alice followed a few months later (released as Per Elisa outside Italy) including follow-up single “Una notte speciale” (“A Special Night”) and the same year Bissi set out on her first European tour.

In 1975 she quit her day job at a design studio and took the stage name Alice Visconti as she was signed by the Italian subsidiary of CBS Records and released her debut album La mia poca grande età. The album consisted of material written by some of Italy’s most successful composers and lyricists of the era and among the musicians contributing were in fact members of Pooh. The singles “Piccola anima” and “Io voglio vivere”, both in the fairly traditional Italian easy listening genre, became minor chart successes in late 1975 and early 1976, the latter also a modest hit in France.

Alice Net Worth

Alice is one of the richest Singer-Songwriter from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alice 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Forlì, Bissi started taking piano lessons in the local Conservatory and singing privately at the age of eight. Her career in music started as she as a seventeen-year-old won the 1971 Castrocaro Music Festival under her birth name Carla Bissi, with an interpretation of the song “Tanta voglia di lei”, originally composed and recorded by classic Italian rock band Pooh.

The following year saw her winning another music award, La gondola d’argento in Venice, with the song “La festa mia” as well as making her debut in the important Sanremo Music Festival performing “Il mio cuore se ne va” in the Newcomers category, also released as her debut single, the song however failed to qualify for the finals. Two further singles on the Carosello label credited as Carla Bissi followed in 1972 and 1973, both faring relatively unnoticed by the Italian audiences.

In late 1979, shortly after her contract with CBS had expired, Bissi met a man with whom she would go on to collaborate with for the next three decades with great success, the experimental, unconventional and highly productive composer and singer Franco Battiato who was just on the verge of having his Italian breakthrough in the pop genre with the album L’era del cinghiale bianco, released in 1979. Battiato secured Bissi a contract with his label EMI and the two began working together with his producer Angelo Carrara on what was to become her first proper hit single, the dark and despairing “Il vento caldo dell’estate” (“The Warm Summer Wind”) and the following album Capo Nord (“North Cape”). Co-written and arranged by Battiato, the album saw Bissi making a dramatic change in musical direction as it combined influences from contemporary rock and new wave and a musical landscape with prominent use of synthesizers and distorted electric guitars. At this time Bissi also dropped the Visconti part of her stage name and the Capo Nord album was the first to be credited simply as Alice. It was also Bissi’s debut as a composer, with her writing the majority of the songs and over the course of the following albums she would become increasingly involved in the production of her music, both as composer, lyricist, musical arranger and sound engineer.

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In 1986 Bissi changed musical direction as she returned to the charts with the album Park Hotel, her first project with keyboardist, arranger and producer Francesco Messina, with whom she was to collaborate extensively over the next two decades. The album which included material co-written by Bissi herself, Messina, as well as prolific Italian lyricist, composer and singer Juri Camisasca was also Bissi’s first proper international venture as it was entirely recorded with a four-piece band consisting of Italian keyboardist Michele Fedrigotti plus three internationally acknowledged and highly influential musicians: American bassist Tony Levin, American drummer Jerry Marotta and British guitarist Phil Manzanera. The album was notably different to the preceding “I treni di Tozeur” and Gioielli rubati, as it mainly focussed on blues-tinged, melancholy and suggestive ballads with airy soundscapes giving plenty of room for the musicians to display their respective talents and for Bissi to use her vocal skills in a new musical environment. Park Hotel was promoted by lead single “Nomadi” (“Nomads”), an epic ballad by Camisasca, followed by “Il senso dei desideri” (“The Sense of Desire”), “Viali di solitudine” (“The Boulevards of the Lonely”), “Volo di notte” (“Fly by Night”) and a remix of the up-tempo track “Conoscersi” (“Knowing Yourself”). Park Hotel was a considerable success both critically and commercially, reaching the Top 20 in most parts of Continental Europe, peaking at No. 13 on the Swedish albums chart and it also became her breakthrough on the Japanese market, despite the fact that all lyrics still were entirely sung in the Italian language.

Facts & Trivia

Alice Ranked on the list of most popular Singer-Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Italy. Alice celebrates birthday on September 26 of every year.

Musically and vocally versatile and unwilling to be categorised or defined, 1988 saw Bissi setting out on a low-key tour in smaller venues and classical concert halls in Italy and Switzerland accompanied solely by herself and Michele Fedrigotti on pianos and keyboards, performing not her pop hits but arias and lieder by fin de siècle composers Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie and Maurice Ravel. The partly instrumental concert was later recorded in studio and released as Mélodie passagère on EMI.

Is Alice a true story?

Alice is inspired by the very real-life history of Black Americans who remained enslaved after the Emancipation Proclamation. One major example of 20th century enslaved people is the case of Mae Louise Walls Miller, an enslaved woman who wasn’t granted freedom until 1963.

Is Alice 2022 based on a true story?

Unlike Antebellum, which stole conceptually from Octavia Butler’s Kindred with diminishing returns, Alice is somewhat based on a true story. Linden used a 2007 People Magazine article as the loose base for her film, taking the life of Mae Miller and forcing it into a Blaxploitation mold.

Why is Alice rated R?

The Movie, Alice Age Rating is R for violence, sexual content, nudity, drug use, and language.

Is the movie Alice on Netflix?

Alice is not on Netflix. While it is possible the Keke Palmer movie will be on Netflix someday, it will not be any time soon.

Is Alice Howland a real person?

So Alice Howland is not a real woman , but she represents many real women and men out there suffering from this disease. The novel, published in 2007, was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 40 weeks, and, before it hit the screen, was adapted as a play for a production in Chicago.