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It’s Eurovision week! Singer Laura Pausini is the presenter of the Eurovision Song Festival in Turin, Italy this week. That is why we highlight her today Laura Pausini (Solarolo, 16 May 1974) is an Italian singer who is very popular in the Italian and Spanish-speaking world. She also has many followers in Belgium and the Netherlands. After Italy, the Netherlands was the first country where the singer was successful. She sings in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English. She has a warm, powerful voice with a large range of voices. Her songs are mainly about love, but Laura also sings about peace, poverty and racism. She was officially discovered by producer Angelo Valsiglio during the annual San Remo festival. The then 18-year-old Laura won the festival with the song La Solitudine. This number also caught on in the Netherlands and thus formed her international breakthrough. ’La solitudine’ reached #1 in the Dutch Top 40 in January 1994. This performance was recorded and broadcast by TROS tv program ’Geld Maakt Niet Gelukkig’ on 27 November 1993. Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 27 November 1993 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Boney M, Smokie, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chick, Donna Summer, Rod Stewart, and many many more.
