Cristina Scabbia

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{{short description|Italian singer (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2014}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Cristina Scabbia
| image = Lacuna Coil - 2022217143210 2022-08-05 Wacken - Sven - 1D X MK II - 1461 - AK8I6777 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Scabbia in 2022
| birth_name = Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia
| birth_place = [[Milan]], [[Lombardy]], Italy
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|6|6|df=y}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Lacuna Coil and Randy Blythe join forces |url=https://dark-divas.com/en/news/lacuna-coil-and-randy-blythe-join-forces |website=dark-divas.com |access-date=3 June 2025 |language=en}}</ref>
| genre = {{flatlist|
* [[Gothic metal]]
* [[alternative metal]]
}}
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Singer
* songwriter
}}
| years_active = 1991–present
| label = [[Century Media Records|Century Media]]
| current_member_of = [[Lacuna Coil]]
| past_member_of =
| website = {{url|lacunacoil.it}}
}}

'''Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia''' ({{IPA|it|kriˈstiːna adriˈaːna ˈkjaːra ˈskabbja|lang}}; born 6 June 1972) is an Italian singer. She is one of the two vocalists of [[gothic metal]] band [[Lacuna Coil]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maxim.com/rides/cristina-scabbia|title=Cristina Scabbia|publisher=Maxim|access-date=26 February 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120703055442/http://www.maxim.com/rides/cristina-scabbia|archive-date=3 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Scabbia used to write an advice column in the rock magazine ''[[Revolver (magazine)|Revolver]]'', alongside musician [[Vinnie Paul]]. Scabbia is featured in a [[Megadeth]] song "[[À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)]]". She also featured on ''[[The Theory of Everything (Ayreon album)|The Theory of Everything]]'', an album from [[Arjen Anthony Lucassen]]'s [[Ayreon]] project, with which she is cast as the Mother. She is also the featured artist in the [[Apocalyptica]] song "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)" and another version of the [[Alter Bridge]] song "[[Watch Over You]]".<ref name="SC Bio">{{cite web|title=Cristina Scabbia Biography |publisher=biurams.com |url=http://www.biurams.lt/cristina-scabbia-biography.html |access-date=25 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070109070857/http://www.biurams.lt/cristina-scabbia-biography.html |archive-date=9 January 2007 |url-status=dead |df=dmy}}</ref> Scabbia performed a duet with the Italian ex-singer of [[Linea 77]] Emiliano Audisio on the track "Beautiful Lie" to be part of the soundtrack for the 2013 Italian film ''Passione sinistra''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockol.it/news-492278/emiliano-audisio-ex-linea-77-e-cristina-scabbia-duettano-in-beautiful-lie|title=Emiliano Audisio (ex Linea 77) e Cristina Scabbia duettano in 'Beautiful lie'|publisher=rockol|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref>

== Lacuna Coil ==
[[File:Cristina Scabbia (cropped).JPG|thumb|right|Cristina Scabbia in 2014]]
[[File:Cristina Scabbia Live @ Revolution Live, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.jpg|thumb|Scabbia performing with Lacuna Coil at Revolution Live, [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]] in 2017]]
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{{Main|Lacuna Coil}}
In 1991, Scabbia began singing professionally as a touring musician for other bands and providing backing vocals.<ref>{{cite interview| subject= Cristina Scabbia| interviewer= Neon| title= Lacuna coil interview with cristina scabbia| publisher= neonblonde.com| date= 13 December 2002| url= http://www.neonblonde.com/Interview24.htm| access-date= 10 November 2007| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070307140035/http://www.neonblonde.com/Interview24.htm| archive-date= 7 March 2007| df= dmy-all}}</ref> Later that year, she met the male vocalist [[Andrea Ferro]] and bass player [[Marco Coti Zelati]] of Lacuna Coil in [[Milan]]'s Midnight club and started dating Marco after.<ref>{{cite interview| subject= Cristina Scabbia| interviewer= Kevin Karr| title= Interview with Cristina Scabbia (Vocalist)| publisher= timesheroldonline.com| date= 23 December 2006| url= http://blogzone.timesheraldonline.com/cd_reviews/2006/11/lacuna_coil_interview.html| access-date= 10 November 2007| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071124114601/http://blogzone.timesheraldonline.com/cd_reviews/2006/11/lacuna_coil_interview.html| archive-date= 24 November 2007| df= dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="MusicMight">{{cite web| last= Sharpe-Young| first= Garry| title= MusicMight Biography| publisher= MusicMight.com| url= http://www.musicmight.com/artist/italy/lombardy/milan/lacuna+coil| access-date= 9 November 2007| url-status= dead| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130116144551/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/italy/lombardy/milan/lacuna+coil| archive-date= 16 January 2013| df= dmy-all}}</ref> At the time, the band was named Ethereal, and Scabbia was asked to do vocals by Marco. She recorded vocals on the demo tapes and was then invited to be a permanent member.<ref name="MD">{{cite web| title= Loudwire wiki fact or fiction: Cristina Scabbia lacuna coil| website=[[YouTube]] | date=27 January 2016 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVtcI8SSfmo}}</ref>

After several changes in the band's line-up, the members were reduced to Ferro, Coti Zelati and Scabbia. The members recorded a two-track demo in May 1996, and were soon signed by the German branch of [[Century Media]], eventually joining with the American branch of the label. Once signed, the band changed their name to Lacuna Coil after learning that a Greek band signed to Century Media had already claimed the name Ethereal. Adding new band members, Lacuna Coil released their first album in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ethereal |publisher=emptyspiral.net |url=http://www.emptyspiral.net/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=95 |access-date=10 November 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927122948/http://www.emptyspiral.net/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=95 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref>

== Other work ==
Songs performed by Cristina Scabbia feature in the ''Dream of the Beast'' [[downloadable content]] (DLC) for the video game ''[[Metal: Hellsinger]]''.<ref>{{cite news |date= 29 March 2023 |title= Metal: Hellsinger - Official Dream of the Beast Trailer |url= https://www.ign.com/videos/metal-hellsinger-official-dream-of-the-beast-trailer |work= IGN |access-date= 1 April 2023}}</ref>

Scabbia also provided vocals for Kevin Sherwood's "Destroy Something Beautiful", featured in ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops 6]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD7z2DVmeN8 | title=Destroy Something Beautiful [OFFICIAL] - Cristina Scabbia - lyrics - Liberty Falls song | website=[[YouTube]] }}</ref>

== Guest work ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Title
!With
|-
|''[[The Theory of Everything (Ayreon album)|The Theory of Everything]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8d3PURCg0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/DK8d3PURCg0 |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Cristina Scabbia to guest on Ayreon Theory of Everything |publisher=YouTube |date=23 August 2013 |access-date=28 October 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
|[[Ayreon]]
|-
|"Beautiful Lie"
|Emiliano Audisio
|-
|"Nell'acqua"
|[[Rezophonic]]
|-
|"[[Watch Over You]]"
|[[Alter Bridge]]
|-
|"Basta!"
|[[L'Aura]] feat. [[Rezophonic]]
|-
|"[[Worlds Collide (Apocalyptica album)|S.O.S. (Anything But Love)]]"
|[[Apocalyptica]]
|-
|"[[À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)]]"
|[[Megadeth]]
|-
|"Can You Hear Me?"
|[[Rezophonic]]
|-
|"I'm That"
|[[Franco Battiato]]
|-
|"Scars"
|[[Metal Allegiance]]
|-
|"I Breathe"
|[[Schiller (band)|Schiller]]
|-
|"Wild Woman"
|[[Danko Jones]]
|-
|"Feliz Navidad (Charity Version)"
|[[Tarja Turunen|Tarja]]
|-
|"Goodbye Stranger"
|[[Tarja Turunen|Tarja]]
|-
|"Salem"
|Genus Ordinis Dei
|-
|"Monster"
|[[Wednesday 13]]
|-
|"We Are the Souls"
|Francesco Riolo feat. VaatiVidya
|-
|"Start Again"
|[[Mark the Hammer]]
|-
|"Loneliness"
|[[Alessandro Galdieri]]
|}
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==References==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Cristina Scabbia}}
* {{discogs artist|495368}}

{{Lacuna Coil}}

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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian women singers]]
[[Category:21st-century Italian women singers]]
[[Category:Alternative metal musicians]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Singers from Milan]]
[[Category:Italian contraltos]]
[[Category:Italian women singer-songwriters]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian singer-songwriters]]
[[Category:21st-century Italian singer-songwriters]]
[[Category:Women heavy metal singers]]
[[Category:Italian heavy metal musicians]]
[[Category:Lacuna Coil members]]
[[Category:English-language singers from Italy]]
[[Category:Century Media Records artists]]

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