Cristina Scabbia
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Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia (Template:IPA; born 6 June 1972) is an Italian singer. She is one of the two vocalists of gothic metal band Lacuna Coil.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Scabbia used to write an advice column in the rock 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, 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">Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</ref>
Lacuna Coil
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Template:External media Template:Main In 1991, Scabbia began singing professionally as a touring musician for other bands and providing backing vocals.<ref>Template:Cite interview</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>Template:Cite interview</ref><ref name="MusicMight">Template:Cite web</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">Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite news</ref>
Scabbia also provided vocals for Kevin Sherwood's "Destroy Something Beautiful", featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Guest work
| Title | With |
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| The Theory of Everything<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> | Ayreon |
| "Beautiful Lie" | Emiliano Audisio |
| "Nell'acqua" | Rezophonic |
| "Watch Over You" | Alter Bridge |
| "Basta!" | L'Aura feat. Rezophonic |
| "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 |
| "Wild Woman" | Danko Jones |
| "Feliz Navidad (Charity Version)" | Tarja |
| "Goodbye Stranger" | Tarja |
| "Salem" | Genus Ordinis Dei |
| "Monster" | Wednesday 13 |
| "We Are the Souls" | Francesco Riolo feat. VaatiVidya |
| "Start Again" | Mark the Hammer |
| "Loneliness" | Alessandro Galdieri |
References
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- 1972 births
- 20th-century Italian women singers
- 21st-century Italian women singers
- Alternative metal musicians
- Living people
- Singers from Milan
- Italian contraltos
- Italian women singer-songwriters
- 20th-century Italian singer-songwriters
- 21st-century Italian singer-songwriters
- Women heavy metal singers
- Italian heavy metal musicians
- Lacuna Coil members
- English-language singers from Italy
- Century Media Records artists