Carla Bissi, aka Alice: career, private life and curiosities about the singer who won Sanremo in 1981 with the hit Per Elisa.
Who is Carla Bissi
Carla Bissi, in art Alice, was born in Forlì on September 26, 1954.
She sang as a child and, as she has revealed in the past, the first time was when she was 15 months old in a church in her hometown.
In February 1972 he participated in the Sanremo Festival with “My heart goes away”, without reaching the final. In the same year he won the “Gondola d’Argento” at the Venice International Light Music Show with the song “La festa mia”, written by Franco Califano and Maurizio Fabrizio.
Subsequently he publishes a third 45giri “The day after / Live a little, die a little”.
After a pause for reflection in 1975 Giancarlo Lucariello, producer of Pooh, proposes to change her name: Carla Bissi becomes Alice Visconti and publishes the first album “My little great age”. The 45giri “I want to live” achieves moderate success in Italy and is also recorded in Catalan.
The meeting with Franco Battiato
In 1980, after the meeting with Franco Battiato, the turning point of his career arrives with the change of record company passing to EMI.
Here he begins to be not only an interpreter, but also the author and composer of all his songs.
In March 1980 he was born “Cape of the North” and the first track is “The hot summer wind” which is a success at the Festivalbar. In 1981 Alice won the Sanremo festival with “Per Elisa” written with Battiato and Giusto Pio. From then on Alice’s success grew and became known also in Germany and then in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland.
In September 1982 the song “Azimut” was released before the summer hit “Message”. Alice also boasts a collaboration with Eugenio Finardi for the song “Laura degli specchi”. In 1987 he published “Elisir” with the song “Nuvole”. In 1988 he released a new album “Mélodie passagère”, in which he interprets splendid pages of cultured music by Satie, Fauré and Ravel accompanied only on the piano by maestro Michele Fedrigotti.
In 1992 he released a last album for EMI entitled “Mezzogiorno sui Alpi”: for the first time in this CD, he sang PPPasolini’s poem with “La recessione”. In 1995 he took part in “Tributo ad Augusto Daolio“With a personal and suggestive” The car runs far …, but I run to you “. In 2015 he participates in the show produced by Caterina Sugar Caselli “The sweet life: the Music of Italian cinema”With two tracks. In February 2018 he sang “At least think of me” with Ron al Sanremo Festival.