Angelica Ibba, aka Angie, officially enters Maria De Filippi's Amici school.
The young singer, originally from Uta, eliminated Frasa in a challenge launched by Rudy Zerbi: to earn a spot in TV's most famous school, she first performed an unreleased song, "Poco Poco," a painful farewell to someone who doesn't love you enough, then, with her fingers on the piano, a cover of Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love." Singer-songwriter Federica Camba, who was asked to judge the show, outshone Angie, and the doors to the talent show were opened wide for her, joining Professor Zerbi's team.
Born in 2001, living in Milan where she moved to pursue her dream of music and now managed by Crista Pavan, Angie made her TV debut as a child, at just 9 years old, joining the cast of the fourth season of "Ti lascio una canzone." In 2018, she competed on "The Voice of Italy," winning over the judges with Julia Michaels' "Issues," especially J-Ax, who wanted her on his team.
A graduate of Loretta Martinez's VMS Italia academy, Angie debuted in 2022 with the single "Scema," co-written with Adel Al Kassem and Riccardo Scirè. With ADA Music Italy, she released her first EP, "Per te," a collection of five songs that musically reconstruct her first year as an independent artist.
The turning point came after the release of the single “Frasi mai dette,” written with Steve Tarta, which literally depopulated on social media with over a million plays. A success that led to the signing of her first major label deal, EMI Records Italy/Universal Music, in spring 2024, with which she released the single "Vent'anni": "Twenty years is me, it's the wishes I make on my birthday candles every year, it's my friends, it's the nights spent in my room writing songs, it's the trips home," Angie says on social media, her heart always firmly set on Sardinia.
With the song "Scorpione," Ibba competed for the Ariston Theater in December 2024, along with 24 other finalists on the Sanremo Giovani program. And even though she didn't make it all the way , "I was myself, and I'm proud of myself for that."
After her latest singles, "Se ci lasciassimo domani" and "Dolcementedolcemente," she's just wrapped up a summer of touring with "a suitcase full of memories , so many beautiful people, so many hugs, so much gratitude, and the hope of being able to relive all this again." Now comes the new challenge, for which she's more prepared than ever.