Carmen Consoli

[6] In 1995, during a trip in Rome, she made her first television appearance, performing the song "L'isola del tesoro" (later released as "Novembre '99" in the album Stato di necessità) in the Rai 3 Michele Santoro's talk show Tempo reale.

[6] Returned to Catania, she was chosen by producer Francesco Virlinzi as the vocalist of a rock group which never materialized and whose name was an homage to Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Big Brothers (and the Katanise Company)"; while the project was eventually scrapped, the other two members of the band Massimo Roccaforte and Salvo Distefano became longtime collaborators of Consoli.

[6] In 1996, she entered the 46th Sanremo Festival with the song "Amore di plastica", and released her debut album, Due Parole.

The album presents Consoli's greatest hits rearranged with an orchestra of sixty elements conducted by Paolo Buonvino.

Debuting at number 1, the album showed a new perspective of Consoli's music, this time enriched with traditional Sicilian sounds and ethnic influences.

[6] The same year, she composed the music of "Anna Magnani", with lyrics by Vincenzo Cerami, for the Adriano Celentano's album Dormi amore, la situazione non è buona.

[6] The same year she composed the original soundtrack for the film The Man Who Loves, directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi and starring Monica Bellucci, Pierfrancesco Favino and Ksenia Rappoport.

[17] The same year, she was named "maestro concertatore" (musical director) at Notte della Taranta, being the first woman to held this role.

[18] In 2017, she voiced Emma in the Italian version of the animated film Monster Family and performed the closing credits song with Max Gazzè.

[19] In 2018, Consoli released a new live album, Eco di sirene, which debuted at the second place in the Italian hit parade.

[20] In 2020, she was chosen as the Italian performer for the song "Loyal Brave True", part of the Mulan soundtrack.

[21] On 25 August 2021, Consoli held an anniversary concert at the Verona Arena for her first 25 years of career; originally planned for 2020 and postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it had among its guests Ornella Vanoni, Elisa, Nada, Max Gazzè, Daniele Silvestri, Afterhours, Irene Grandi, Levante, Colapesce & Dimartino, Samuele Bersani, Marina Rei, Mario Venuti, Tosca, and Finaz.

[24] Following the album release, she started a Volevo fare la rockstar Tour, with Marina Rei as a guest.