Gerardina Trovato

Despite facing personal and professional challenges, including mental health issues and long absences from the public eye, Trovato remains an influential figure in Italian music, admired for her sincerity and artistic depth.

Background Born in Catania, Trovato started her career as backing vocalist, then, put under contract by singer-discographer Caterina Caselli, she took part at the Sanremo Music Festival 1993 with the song "Non ho più la mia città", ranking second behind La Solitudine of Laura Pausini in the newcomers section. The song achieved critical and commercial success and launched her career. In the Summer she was the opening act in Zucchero Fornaciari's concerts.

In May, she toured with the tenor-singer Andrea Bocelli; the couple also made a duet, "Vivere", written by the same Trovato and included in the Bocelli's album Romanza.

In 1996, Trovato published her third album, Ho trovato Gerardina, that led by the singles "Amori amori" and "Piccoli già grandi" obtained a good commercial success.

In February 2016, she revealed in an interview that she had abandoned the scene due to a serious obsessive depressive neurosis and the difficulty of working in the music industry, and some liver problems. In May 27, 2017, with a message on her personal Facebook profile, the singer announced her retirement from the scene again, although she later performed in public in some concerts.

On January 5, 2020, she gave an interview to newspaper Il Messaggero in which she described the very difficult financial and personal situation she found herself in. On August 16, 2024, Corriere della Sera relaunched a touching video published on TikTok in which the singer made a heartfelt appeal: "I have always thought that what matters is the people and we would be nothing if it weren't for you. Don't abandon me, become more and more because you are my strength", words that come as a thanksgiving to a video published the day before, which immediately went viral, where it portrays the artist back to performing around the squares of Italy.

Discography

Album 1993 – Gerardina Trovato 1994 – Non è un film 1996 – Ho Trovato Gerardina 1997 – Il sole dentro 2000 – Gechi, vampiri e altre storie 2005 – La collezione completa 2008 – I sogni (EP)

Singles 1993 – Lasciami libere le mani 1993 – Ma non-ho più la mia città 1993 – Sognare, sognare/ Just dreams 1994 – Angeli a metà 1994 – Non è un film 1994 – Vivere (with Andrea Bocelli) 1996 – Piccoli già grandi 1996 – Amori amori 1996 – Una storia già finita 1996 – E già (with Renato Zero) 1998 – Il sole dentro 2000 – Gechi e vampiri 2000 – Mammone 2003 – M'ama, non-m'ama (with VerbaVolant) 2006 – Un'altra estate 2008 – I sogni 2011 – I Nuovi Mille (with Lucariello) 2016 − Energia diretta 2025 – ‘’Credo nei miracoli’’