Laura Pausini, the first Italian artist to win a Grammy, returns to the Royal Albert Hall with the songs that made her and the new album IO CANTO 2.
Laura Pausini, the first Italian artist to win a Grammy, returns to the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington on Thursday 28 October 2027. She brings more than three decades of Italian and Latin pop.
Born in Faenza in 1974 and raised in nearby Solarolo, she first sang in public at eleven. She sang beside her father, a piano-bar musician, in a Bologna restaurant.
In 1993 she won the newcomers’ section of the Sanremo Music Festival with “La solitudine”, which became an Italian standard and an international hit. Her self-titled debut album sold two million copies. She records chiefly in Italian and Spanish.
She has sold more than 75 million records, and won the Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album in 2006 with Escucha. “Io sì (Seen)” took the Golden Globe, the first Italian-language song to win it, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She co-presented the Eurovision Song Contest in 2022.
The Hall closed the European leg of her Inedito world tour in 2012. This time she sets her best-known songs beside tracks from IO CANTO 2, named for Io canto, her 2006 album of Italian pop songs written by others.