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Albanian-Italian singer-songwriter

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Ermal Meta is an Albanian-Italian singer-songwriter and composer born in Fier in 1981. He speaks Albanian, Italian, and Barese. His musical career began in 2006, and he performs pop music using the guitar, voice, and piano. Meta participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 and the Sanremo Music Festival 2018, receiving an award at the latter.

He has one child and holds an anti-communist political ideology. Meta’s work has been referenced by 553 other encyclopedia articles. His music has accumulated 972,734 plays on Last.fm, where he has 45,966 listeners. He maintains an official website and has 395,000 social media followers.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1981

Member of

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
45,966
Total plays
972,734

Tags

italianpopItalysinger-songwriterEurovision

Ermal Meta (Italian: (ˈɛrmal ˈmɛːta), Albanian: (ɛɾˈmal ˈmɛta); born 20 April 1981) is an Italian singer and songwriter. Meta rose to prominence as one of the lead singers of Ameba 4 and La Fame di Camilla. After becoming a songwriter for several Italian artists, he launched his solo career, releasing two studio albums: Umano (2016) and Vietato morire (2017). The latter peaked at number one in Italy, and was preceded by the single with the same title <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ermal+Met

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Key facts

Born
( 1981-04-20 ) 20 April 1981 (age 45) , Fier , Albania
Origin
Bari , Italy
Genres
Pop rock alternative
Occupations
Singer songwriter composer
Instruments
Vocals guitar keyboard synthesizer bass piano drum machine sampler cajón
Years active
2006–present
Label
Mescal
Formerly of
Ameba 4, La Fame di Camilla

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Italy
Place of birth
Fier
Occupation
composer
Languages spoken
Barese
Instrument
piano
Image
Ermal Meta al Festival di Sanremo 2026 (headshot).jpg
Number of children
1
Political ideology
anti-communism
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date of birth
1981-04-20
Commons category
Ermal Meta
name in native language
Ermal Meta
birth name
Ermal Meta
start of work period
2006-00-00
ethnic group
Albanians
social media followers
395000
Sources (7)

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Encyclopedic overview

Ermal Meta ( Italian: [ˈɛrmal ˈmɛːta], Albanian: [ɛɾˈmal ˈmɛta]; born 20 April 1981) is an Albanian-born Italian singer-songwriter.

Meta rose to prominence as one of the lead singers of Ameba 4 and La Fame di Camilla [it]. After becoming a songwriter for several Italian artists, he launched his solo career, releasing two studio albums: Umano (2016) and Vietato morire (2017). The latter peaked at number one in Italy, and was preceded by the single with the same title, which placed third in the main competition of the Sanremo Music Festival 2017, also receiving the "Mia Martini" Critics' Prize.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ermal Meta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.