Alessia Raisi

Alessia Raisi is a Pop Rock singer based in Shanghai. The interesting thing is that she is Italian and she writes and sings her songs in Chinese, English, Spanish, French and Italian of course. She told us about her Musical history that is really touching. As many musician, her love for music started when she was very young. First she started to learn to play piano but shortly she started to express herself with her voice. She loved to sing and dress as Madonna at that stage of her life. Later, as many other she started to sing with local bands playing gigs all around in her region. Anouk, Anastacia, Elisa, Aretha Franklin and Alanis Morissette were the artists she was covering in her repertoire. She had enough for making a living from singing, but her education was not in tune with this kind of life and bit after bit she had to find herself a “real work”. Singing and writing songs always remained her big love and she had also opportunities to collaborate with famous Italian artists like Paolo Conte, Gianni Morandi, Vasco Rossi and Adriano Celentano. But the day she accepted to be transferred to Shanghai for work she felt that all the music was done. But indeed this was the really kick start for her musical career. “It took me little time to be used to the new life. When I started to go out with new friends we often went to K-TV (Karaoke) that are so popular on this side of the world. I listened to some amazing Chinese Pop song and I wanted to sing on that. I started sing in Chinese very soon and I found that people was so attracted to see a foreigner singing this songs”. Her preferred are rock artists like Wang Feng (汪峰), Cui Jian (崔健), Qi Qin 齊秦. The day she participated to a singing contest was the real game changer : that night she won the contest singing Lucio Battisti's "Nessun dolore" in Giorgia's version. “I remember I was so busy with my work that I was near to forget I had to go to that contest. I arrived just in time to step on the stage and sing. Just after the announcement of my victory some person came to me and signed me for some live events all around China. In a couple of years making my work and continue to sing around China, I decided to stop with my logistic job because I was not able to follow music and my daily job at the same time every day. During that time Alessia developed a musical project that led her to be nominated as “Music Ambassador” for China and Italy. She is making a cultural bridge between Italian and Chinese music by adapting Italian songs to Chinese and Chinese songs to Italian. In her live shows she includes songs from Vasco Rossi, Domenico Modugno, Lucio Dalla, Eros Ramazzotti, Cui Jian, Wang Feng...... In October of 2015, at the Milan World Expo, she sang the Chinese version of “[m1042615] (Volare)” in the 3 Chinese Pavilions. On June 2018 she was the first foreigner who sang the “China National Anthem” in front of the Chinese Government in Shanghai. At the moment Alessia wrote and released 3 songs in Chinese. This small EP is named Alessia’s Journey 惜婭的旅程 . She also released one of this song in Italian with small changes in the arrangement and the sound. “I wrote this song in Italian language during a flight between Beijing and Shanghai. I wanted to express the love to my country and compare it to the emotions I’m living now so far away. I called it Italia (means "Italy"). It's nostalgic, but no regret”. Alessia presented this song during the Radio DeeJay Stage event on 18th August in Riccione (Italy). She is continuously doing Live shows all around in China, but also around the World: September-October 2019 she presented her songs in Buenos Aires (Argentina). In October she performed in different cities in Italy: Milan, Florence and Bologna. In December 2019 she was awarded at the "China Awards" by Fondazione Italia Cina with the title of "Ambassador of the Italian Music in China and Chinese Music in Italy" and then she was guest in the Italian National TV - RAI in the TV show named "L'Italia con Voi" in Rome (Italy). February 2020 she will have a small tour in Argentina to present her first song in Spanish: Mi Vida. On March 4th 2022 Frédéric François released En Duo a duets album with many famous French artists and Alessia Raisi singing a new version of "Volare". She is Rocking the world. Don’t ask me why, but I go crazy for languages, this is why I sing my songs using so many of them. I think that is very important for everyone to understand the meaning of what you are listening. At least is very important for me to let people understand what I want to communicate. So I’ve packed all this together and naturally came out this idea to be a Cultural bridge between cultures and languages. And because my road brought me to China in 2010, I’ve decided to start this mission in this great but also challenging Country. Now I have a lot of fun adapting famous Italian & Spanish songs to Chinese and also famous Chinese songs to Italian, Spanish and English. But I don’t stop myself here because I sing in Italian, Spanish, French, English, German, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic languages too. Why should I put a limit ? ;-)