Nilla Pizzi
I Grandi Successi

When the SanRemo Festival was unique, when with an Italian song young people fell in love, when post-war Italy was reborn full of hope, when the songs were very simple but hit you straight to the heart: when Nilla Pizzi was 'The Queen of Italian music'.

What Nilla Pizzi represented for our musical, cultural, and costume heritage in Italy is something enormous, immeasurable. Unfortunately now forgotten, overlooked, bypassed by a wave of captivating and modern musical trends, with which she cannot and should not compete. Rightly, music takes its course, just as the history of our country's customs inexorably changes and should not stop, but neither should it forget those who made it possible for it to be so.

Born in 1919 in Bologna (with the real name of Adionilla Negrini Pizzi). But as she says herself, really born only in 1951: "I was born in 1951, with the SanRemo Festival. Before that, I didn't exist". The Festival gave her everything: fame, glory, recognition, success... It was certainly not the Festival of today, weary and tired, with viewership plummeting downwards. The Festival was the only thing there was, the Festival united families, enchanted young and old, warmed everyone's heart. It's true that back then there were no musical or entertainment alternatives. But those like Nilla Pizzi who was a historical presence in our song, went to the Festival because she really believed in it, and once she took the stage with her vocal cords, she gave it her all.

Only minimally represented by albums, which contain only a small part of her work, which instead was more fully spent in a myriad of performances and concerts. In this 'The Best Of' we find a bit of everything, all the songs that made her famous, those songs that today seem so anachronistic, but once made the heart beat of entire generations of people.
And so we rediscover the candid and wonderful notes of: "Grazie Dei Fiori", "La Luna Si Veste D'Argento", "Vola Colomba", "Papaveri E Papere", "Una Donna Prega", "Edera", "Colpevole", and many other small and stunning gems that illuminated for many years the hearts of many Italians.

Turning the page and changing the musical register is right and physiological in every culture, but every now and then rediscovering the notes now covered with dust that lie forgotten behind us, can bring immense pleasure. Those of Nilla Pizzi certainly do not disappoint.