Giorgia Todrani (born 26 April 1971),known professionally as simply Giorgia, is an Italian singer-songwriter. Nicknamed “the Italian Whitney Houston”, she is known for her wide vocal range, high belting register and great vocal abilities, she is one of the most famous Italian singers, she has released ten studio albums all enjoying commercial success. Giorgia has become fairly well known throughout Europe as an ambassador for Italian pop music.
Giorgia holds the first place among the female Italian artists of her generation for number of weeks in the Fimi-Nielsen chart, and she has sold over 25 million records worldwide, with 12 top-ten albums of which 5 number-one on the Italian album chart, and 24 top-ten singles of which 5 number-one hits on the Italian singles chart. She has participated five times at the Sanremo Music Festival, in 1995, in 1996, in 2001, in 2023 and in 2025, placing at the first, third, second, sixth and sixth place respectively. At the Sanremo Music Festival 1995, she won 4 prizes on the same night (Festival First Awards, Radio/TV Awards, Authors Awards and “Mia Martini” Awards), holding the unbeaten Sanremo record of a winning artist collecting all the prizes at once. In her career, Giorgia has won 8 Italian and Wind Music Awards, a David di Donatello, a Nastro d’Argento and a “Premio Lunezia”.
