Anna Oxa

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anna Oxa
Occupation	Rock Singer
Date Of Birth	Apr 28, 1961(1961-04-28)
Age	63
Birthplace	Bari
Country	Italy
Horoscope	Aries

Anna Oxa Biography

Anna Oxa is one of the most popular and richest Rock Singer who was born on April 28, 1961 in Bari, Italy. Born Iliriana Hoxha, and more well-known as her stage name Anna Oxa, this Italian singer released chart- topping songs such like “Un’emozione da poco” and “E tutto un attimo.”

She recorded a cult version of She recorded a popular cover of Patti Smith‘s hit song “Because the Night.”‘s hit track “Because the Night.”

Anna Hoxha (Albanian: [ˈana ˈhɔdʒa] ; born 28 April 1961), known professionally as Anna Oxa (Italian: [ˈanna ˈɔksa] ), is an Italian singer, actress, and television presenter. Affectionately referred to as la Voce e il Cuore (English: “the Voice and the Heart” ), Oxa has received mainstream popularity and recognition within Italy due to her numerous participations in the Sanremo Music Festival.

Oxa began her career at the Sanremo Music Festival 1978, performing the song “Un’emozione da poco”, written by Ivano Fossati, who also sponsored her performance. Sporting an androgynous punk look, Oxa achieved great success in the competition, reaching second place behind only Matia Bazar. After the show, “Un’emozione da poca” was released as a single by record label RCA Italiana, and became Oxa’s first number-one single in Italy. Following the success of “Un’emozione da poco”, Oxa released her debut studio album Oxanna (1978). The album also became a chart-topping success in Italy. The second single off of Oxanna, “Fatelo con me”, also written by Fossati, was selected to compete in the 1978 edition of Festivalbar and became a top twenty hit in Italy.

The girl was raised in Bari, Italy, to an Italian family with Albanian origin.

Anna Oxa Net Worth

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

At the age of fifteen when she appeared at Italy’s most prestigious Sanremo Music Festival. When she was 18, she took home first prize at the same festival for performing an duet in the company of Italian blues musician Fausto Leali.

In the days before joining Columbia Records and releasing the well-known Per Sognare, Per Cantare, Per Ballare album, she recorded a number one-ranked self-titled debut album, which was released on the RCA Italiana label.

Oxa was born on 28 April 1961 in Bari to Qazim Hoxha, an Albanian originally from Krujë, and an Italian mother. She was raised in the San Pasquale neighborhood of Bari, and attended school at the Liceo Artistico Giuseppe De Nittis. Since her youth, Oxa has been vegan.

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After declining sales and a lack of promotion from her label, Oxa cut ties with RCA Italiana and signed a contract with CBS Records International in

1981. She returned to Sanremo the following year, competing in the Sanremo Music Festival 1982 with the song “Io no”. Oxa’s participation saw a great stylistic change in her image; she no longer sported her androgynous punk look that she had become known for, and instead grew her hair long and dyed it blonde, adopting a sexier appearance that went on to define her career for the following decades. “Io no” placed as a finalist in the competition, and went on to become a top forty hit. Despite this, CBS International did not believe it performed well enough to warrant an entire album. The following year, Oxa released the single “Navigando” to serve as the lead single to her third studio album, titled Per sognare, per cantare, per ballare (1983). Oxa continued to take part in Sanremo several times during the 1980s, competing in 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1988, placing within the top seven each time. Her 1986 entry, “È tutto un attimo”, went on to become a massive success in Italy; while only placing fifth in Sanremo, it became her second chart-topping hit in her home country, and served as the lead single to her album È tutto un attimo (1986), which peaked at number-three.

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Oxa returned to Sanremo the year after her win, competing in the Sanremo Music Festival 1990 with the song “Donna con te”. The song was originally to be performed by Patty Pravo, but after Pravo demanded multiple changes be made to the song and eventually refused to perform it, Oxa was asked to replace her. “Donna con te” performed well, becoming a finalist in Sanremo and a top ten hit in Italy. Despite the single’s success, it was not included on a studio album and only appeared on Oxa – Live con i New Trolls (1990), Oxa’s collaborative live album with Italian band New Trolls. Following the collapse of CBS International in 1990, Oxa was transferred to the Columbia Records label under Sony Music. Her first release with the new label was “Mezzo angolo di cielo”, released in 1992 and becoming a top twenty hit. She followed up the success of the single with the release of the album Di questa vita (1992); the album peaked at number-five in Italy. Following this release, Oxa took a brief hiatus from performing original music. She hosted the Telemontecarlo (TMC) program Viaggio al centro della musica and later the Sanremo Music Festival

1994. From 1993 to 1994, Oxa released two cover albums and one album of remakes of her previous releases.