Search - Iva Zanicchi :: Testarda Io

Queen of Italian Soul

Indian music lover | Portland, Oregon | 02/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Iva Zanicchi is the Queen of Italian Soul and she shows why with the first track: Come Ti Vorrei, the 1964 Italian version of Burt Russell's Cry to Me, a major hit for Solomon Burke and Betty Harris. The force of Iva's version certainly does not get lost in the translation as she GETS DOWN and lays it on the line.



Close your eyes and you can imagine yourself in a Roman cafe in 1965 filled with young Italians plugging the jukebox and grooving to the sounds of Iva, Mina, Ornella Vanoni, Edoardo Vianello, Bobby Solo, Adriano Celentano and all the other greats of that mythic era. Pure cinema....



This compilation CD has many of Iva's 60s and early 70s hits. She really knew how to put her heart and soul in a song. Check it out."