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Italian singer

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Italy
Active from
1961-04-28
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Anna Hoxha (born 28 April 1961 in Bari, Italy), known professionally as Anna Oxa, is an Italian singer, actress, and television presenter. Affectionately referred to as La Voce e il Cuore (English: "the Voice and the Heart"), Oxa has received mainstream popularity and recognition within Italy due to her numerous participations in the Sanremo Music Festival. Beginning her career as a teenager, Oxa debuted with 16 years in the Sanremo Music Festival 1978 with the song "Un'emozione da poco", placi

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Born
Anna Hoxha , ( 1961-04-28 ) 28 April 1961 (age 65) , Bari , Italy
Genres
Pop rock soft rock adult contemporary
Occupations
Singer actress television presenter
Years active
1978–present
Labels
RCA CBS Columbia Sony EMI
Website
www .oxarte .net

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Official website
oxarte.net
Image
Anna Oxa 4.jpg
Number of children
2
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Anna Oxa
date of birth
1961-04-28
start of work period
1978-00-00
pseudonym
Anna Oxa
birth name
Iliriana Hoxha
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Anna Hoxha ( Albanian: [ˈana ˈhɔdʒa]; born 28 April 1961), known professionally as Anna Oxa (Italian: [ˈanna ˈɔksa]), is an Italian singer, actress and television presenter. She has received mainstream popularity and recognition within Italy due to her numerous participations in the Sanremo Music Festival.

Beginning her career as a teenager, Oxa debuted in the Sanremo Music Festival 1978 with the song "Un'emozione da poco", placing second in the competition. Following her success in Sanremo, she released her debut studio album Oxanna (1978) that year, which became her first chart-topping album in Italy. After numerous participations in Sanremo during the 1980s, Oxa competed again in the Sanremo Music Festival 1989, performing "Ti lascerò" as a duet with Fausto Leali. The duo won the competition, and thus were chosen as the Italian representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in Lausanne, competing with the song "Avrei voluto"; they placed ninth in the finals. Oxa went on to win Sanremo once more, as a soloist, in 1999, with the song "Senza pietà". In total, Oxa has competed in Sanremo fifteen times across six decades (a record shared with Al Bano, Milva, Peppino di Capri and Toto Cutugno), and additionally hosted the competition in 1994.

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