(HISPANIC TIMES MUSIC) Laura Pausini is a Grammy Award-winning Italian soul singer-songwriter.
In November 1994, Pausini released her first Spanish-language album, Laura Pausini, a compilation of ten adapted versions of hits from her first two Italian albums. The record became the best selling album of 1994 in Spain and was later certified Diamond by the Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain, selling more than 1,000,000 copies in Spain and making Pausini the first non-Spanish artist to achieve this result.
During her career, she won three Latin Grammy Awards for Best Female Pop vocal Album, with her records Escucha (2005), Yo canto (2007) and Primavera anticipada (2009). On 8 February 2006 she also became the first Italian female artist to win a Grammy Award, receiving the prize for Best Latin Pop Album with Escucha.
As of January 2011, she had released 9 Italian-language studio albums, 8 Spanish-language albums and a greatest hits album, selling more than 70,000,000 copies worldwide.
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