Filippa Giordano

Italian songbird Filippa Giordano emerged in 1998 as one of the pop/classical crossover world's fastest rising stars. Born in Palermo, Giordano was the youngest of a family of musicians. Her parent's opera careers soon moved the family to Rome, where Giordano enrolled in the National Academy to study ballet. As she followed her parents from engagement to engagement, she fell in love with the world of classical voice. Simultaneously, the pop and R&B sounds coming from her radio entranced her. She began studying voice under her mother, who schooled her in both pop and operatic t...