Laura Pausini was born and raised in the town of Solarolo, Ravenna in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on May 16, 1974. She started to sing in local piano bars with her father Fabrizio, a musician and singer, when she was only eight years old. At the age of thirteen, Laura had her first recording experience with the album I sogni di Laura, a semi-professional release produced by her father in 1987. In 1993 her career was launched when she won the prestigious Italian Sanremo Music Festival with one of her best known songs, "La solitudine". As a natural consequence, she signed a contract with Warner Music Italy to release her first professional album, Laura Pausini. Her second album, Laura, was released in 1994 and was such a big hit that her recording company offered her a deal to record in Spanish. At the end of 1994, Pausini released her first Spanish album, Laura Pausini, a compilation of ten adapted versions of hits from her first two Italian albums. The album was so successful that made her a household name in the Spanish speaking world. In 2006, Laura Pausini won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album for the album Resta in Ascolto.
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