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Marco Mengoni ((:ˈmarko meŋˈɡoːni); born 25 December 1988) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He rose to fame in 2009, after winning the third series of Italian talent show ''X Factor''. His debut extended play, ''Dove si vola'', was preceded by the single with the same title, which reached the top spot of the Italian Top Digital Downloads chart and also served as his coronation song. In February 2010, Mengoni competed in the 60th Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Credimi ancora", placing third in a field of fifteen. The song was included in his second extended play, ''Re matto'', which debuted at number one in Italy. The EP was promoted through an Italian tour, which yielded the live album ''Re matto live''. Mengoni's first full-length studio album, ''Solo 2.0'', was released in September 2010, and it was certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry. In 2013, Mengoni won the 63rd Sanremo Music Festival with his song "L'essenziale". During the competition he was internally selected by RAI to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, where he performed "L'essenziale". The song also became the lead single of the album ''#prontoacorrere'', which became his fourth number-one on the Italian Albums Chart. During his career, Mengoni has received several awards, including two TRL Awards, nine Wind Music Awards and nine MTV Italian Music Awards. In 2010 and 2015, he won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best European Act, becoming the first Italian artist to win that prize. While in 2013, he won the MTV European Music Award for Best Southern European Act. == Early life == Marco Mengoni was born on 25 December 1988 in Ronciglione, a ''comune'' in the province of Viterbo, in central Italy, where he also spent his childhood. He is the only child of Nadia Ferrari and Maurizio Mengoni. At the age of fourteen, while studying industrial design in high school, he started to take singing lessons.〔 Mengoni later started to perform as a member of a five-piece vocal group.〔 After graduating, he moved to Rome, where he enrolled on a degree course in Languages. During his studies, he occasionally worked as a barman and he performed in piano bars and during weddings. During the same years, he had his first experience in the recorded music business, working as a sound mixer and as a music programmer.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marco Mengoni」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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