Oriana Civile has been singing and performing since she was a young girl and, while studying at the science high school of Capo d'Orlando, she frequented local piano bars and was a curtain raiser for the cabaret that had various artists, including Salvo Ficarra, Renzino Barbera, Francesco Scimemi, and Enrico Guarnieri, with an already wide and varied repertory and the accompaniment of Umberto Tonarelli on acoustic guitar.
From 1995 to 1998 Oriana Civile was the voice of the Studio '90 cover band playing Italian light music, founded and directed by the pianist Franco Caliò.
An important aspect of her artistic journey was determined in 2004 by attending the theoretical/practical Laboratory of Ethnomusicology at the University of Palermo, led by Professor Girolamo Garofalo and based on the study of traditional oral music and singing.
It was then she developed a passion for and dedicated herself to studying this almost unknown tremendous cultural heritage, with immense engagement and reverential respect, reviving some inestimable gems.
[2] Produced for the first time in May 2015, with the support of the versatile musician Ciccio Piras, Song of Anybody's Life continues to achieve much critical and public acclaim.
The show's tunes are collected on the album Canto di una Vita Qualunque: Le Canzoni released in August 2016; the disk was selected for the City of Loano National Prize for traditional Italian music.
[3] She contributed to the birth of the AGLAIA Ethnomusicology Laboratory, a permanent research group and philological revival of music and songs of the Sicilian oral tradition composed by young artists and scholars, including Ciccio Piras, Gera Bertolone, and Giuseppe Giordano.
She participated in making the soundtrack for the documentary Sorge il Sole: Una Storia Vera (The Sun Rises: A True Story) directed by Pietro Di Maria.