Carmen Consoli

Early life
Carmen Consoli was born in Catania, Sicily, to a Sicilian father, Giuseppe Consoli, and a Venetian mother, Maria Rosa Toffolo, and grew up in the small town of San Giovanni la Punta. She started playing guitar at the age of nine and at fourteen she started performing with a rock-blues band, the Moon Dog's Party.

1990s
Consoli served as backing vocalist in the 1991 Caftua album One Day and in the 1994 Lula album Da dentro. In 1995, during a trip in Rome, she made her first television appearance, performing the song "L'isola del tesoro" (later released as "Novembre '99" in the album Stato di necessità) in the Rai 3 Michele Santoro's talk show Tempo reale. Returning to Catania, she was chosen by producer Francesco Virlinzi as the vocalist of a rock group which never materialized and whose name was an homage to Big Brother and the Holding Company, "Big Brothers (and the Katanise Company)"; while the project was eventually scrapped, the other two members of the band Massimo Roccaforte and Salvo Distefano became longtime collaborators of Consoli. The same year she was among the winners of Sanremo Giovani, a televised competition aimed at selecting the contestants of the Sanremo Music Festival newcomers section, with her first single "Quello che sento". In 1996, she entered the 46th Sanremo Festival with the song "Amore di plastica", and released her debut album, Due Parole.
Her next album, Confusa e felice (1997) was a critical and commercial success, selling over 130,000 copies. The same year, she got awarded the Premio italiano della musica award as revelation of the year and she embarked on her first tour. In September 2007 she was for a week the host of the program So 90's on MTV.
In 1998, she released her third album, Mediamente isterica, a concept album…

Studio albums
1996 Due parole (15,000 copies)
1997 Confusa e felice No. 6 ITA (130,000 copies), Platinum
1998 Mediamente isterica No. 4 ITA (80,000 copies), Platinum
2000 Stato di necessità No. 6 ITA (300,000 copies), 3× Platinum
2002 L'eccezione No. 1 ITA (200,000 copies), 2× Platinum
2006 Eva contro Eva No. 1 ITA No. 85 CH (80,000 copies), Platinum
2008 Mediamente isterica Deluxe - Anniversary Edition No. 22 ITA (11,000 copies)
2009 Elettra No. 2 ITA (80,000 copies), Platinum
2015 L'abitudine di tornare No. 3 ITA
2021 Volevo fare la rockstar No. 2 ITA
2025 Amuri luci No. 17 ITA

Greatest hits albums
2010 Per niente stanca No. 6 ITA (40,000 copies), Platinum
2017 The Platinum Collection

Live albums
2001 L'anfiteatro e la bambina impertinente No. 6 ITA (200,000 copies), 2× Platinum
2003 Un sorso in più – Dal vivo a MTV Supersonic No. 18 ITALIA
2018 Eco di sirene No. 2 ITA

International albums
2001 État de necessité – French version of Stato di necessità
2002/2003 Carmen Consoli – English version of L'Eccezione
2007 Eva contro Eva – Published in the United States by Universal Latino (in Italian)

Soundtracks
2008 L'uomo che ama
2025 L’amuri ca v’haju

Singles
1995 Quello che sento
1996 Amore di plastica
1996 Questa notte una lucciola illumina la mia finestra
1996 Lingua a sonagli
1997 Confusa e felice No. 3 ITA
1997 Venere
1997 Uguale a ieri
1998 Mai come ieri feat. Mario Venuti
1998 Bésame Giuda
1998 Puramente casuale
1999 Eco di sirene
1999 Autunno dolciastro
2000 In bianco e nero No. 10 ITA
2000 Parole di burro No. 4 ITA
2000 Orfeo
2001 L'ultimo bacio
2001 Gamine impertinente (France)
2002 L'eccezione No. 4 ITA
2003 Pioggia d'aprile – Gold Certification (15.000 copies)
2003 April Showers (Germany and Spain)
2003 Fiori d'arancio
2006 Signor Tentenna
2006 Tutto su…

1996 Amore di plastica
1996 Lingua a sonagli
1998 Mai come ieri feat. Mario Venuti
1998 Bésame Giuda
1999 Eco di sirene
1999 Autunno dolciastro
2000 Parole di burro
2001 L'ultimo bacio
2002 L'eccezione
2003 Pioggia d'aprile
2003 Fiori d'arancio
2006 Signor Tentenna
2006 Tutto su Eva
2009 Non molto lontano da qui
2010 Guarda l'alba
2011 AAA cercasi
2015 L'abitudine di tornare
2015 Sintonia imperfetta
2015 Ottobre
2017 Il conforto (Tiziano Ferro feat. Carmen Consoli)