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Gala

Genre: Electronic

Style: Dance, Euro House

Member(s): Gala Rizzatto, Filippo Andrea Carmeni, Maurizio Molella, Phil Jay, Maurizio Melella

Label(s): Do It Yourself, Universal Records, EMI, Matriarchy Inc, Private Life

Country: US (New York), Italy

Info:
Gala is a New York-based Italian, female singer-songwriter, born in Milan on 6 september 1972. She is best known for her songs Freed From Desire, Let a Boy Cry, Come Into My Life and Suddenly.

History
Gala left Italy at 17 to attend art school in Boston. In 1993 she moved to New York where she photographed the New York City underground scene of artists and club-goers. In exchange for a photo of a European deejay she recorded her first demo. Written in New York and then mailed overseas on a cassette tape, her first demo of the song 'Freed From Desire' became an international pop and dance classic. The song makes part of the notalgy from the ninties. It was recorded between Milan and London and was released by Italian independent label 'Do It Yourself'. Her first album 'Come Into My Life' was released in 1998. Four of the songs on that album came in the European hit charts.

Awards:
1996 - Best Female Singer of the Year in Italy for the Musica e Dischi magazine
1997 - Italian Dance Award
1997 - Best Dance Act for the Mobo Awards in UK
1997 - Best Foreign Artist of the Year at the Midem in Cannes

Gala goes classic
Gala has also written songs for classical music and opera songs for artists like Marcelo Alvarez and Salvatore Licitera.
Today
Gala remained shooting professional photographs.

Genre: Pop

Label(s): Universal Music

Distributor(s): Universal Music

Country: Belgium

Info:
At the age of 15 she made this debut songs. She also won the contest of 'The Voice Kids' in the Flemish part of Belgium at the age of 15.

Albums

Come into My Life

Singles V1

Tough Love

Singles

Everyone Has Inside

Songs

10 O'Clock

Aleluia

Antiphons

Arme Irre

Cheeze

Come into My Life

contagious

Cosmos

Crying

Dance or Die

Deep

Dein Platz ist bei mir

Deine Welt

Different Kind of Love

Do It

Es muß alles anders werden

Everyone

Everyone Has Inside

Faraway

Free From Desire

Freed Form Desire

Freed from Desire

Gala Megamix

Graduale

He's Not a Man

Hilfe Hilfe

I See Through You

Ich bin der Junge mit der Mundharmonika

Ich geh

I'm the World

Immer wieder er

INTRO……The Band Is So Cool

Introitus

Kaleidoscope

Keep the Secret

Kleine weiße Strassenbahn

Let a Boy Cry

Let the Boy Cry

Ljubavi Ne Znam Ime

Lose Yourself in Me

Love Impossible

M Murderer

Megamix

Monkey Station

Na Na Na La

Number 3

Prinz um 12

Renaissance

Responsorios

Rock Your World

She Really Wants to Try It

Silly Times Many Slimes

Start It Over

Stein im Flug

Suddenly

Summer Eclipse

Taste of Me

Tennessee

The Beautiful

The Blue Elephants

Tough Love

Wo bist Du

You and Me

You...

Young For You