Career
During her career she has sung in Spanish and has performed duets in German, French, Indian and in African languages, selling around 5 million records and earning 9 top-ten albums and 6 top-ten singles of which one number-one on the Italian music charts. She has participated four times at the gaining the podium in 2000. Grandi has performed for six times at the Festivalbar, conquering twice the platform and winning the Radio Awards.
Irene Grandi was born in Florence.
Her first album, Irene Grandi, contained songs written with Eros Ramazzotti ("Sposati subito") and Jovanotti ("TVB"). In 1995, her second album, In vacanza da una vita, was released.
lieutenant contained such songs as "In vacanza da una vita" and "Bum bum". These albums were followed up by Per fortuna purtroppo, Verde rosso e blu, Kose da Grandi, and Indelebile among others
In 2000, she placed second in the with a song written together with Vasco Rossi.
She performed lead vocals on the song "Blue", the closing track on French producer Hector Zazou"s 2003 album Strong Currents. In 2004, she made her debut as television presenter with Marco Maccarini at the Festivalbar. She participated as a contestant in the 60th edition of the in 2010 with her song Louisiana cometa di Halley (Halley"s Comet) and again in 2015 with Un vento senza nome (A Wind Without a Name).