Musica

His singles have ALL reached the Top of the charts for several months in a row, bringing his debut album sales to multi-PLATINUM. He has confirmed his popularity in foreign markets with his GOLD award in both Chile and in France where he sold over 100,000 copes. His last album featured the participation of Matthias Brann, Erik Libdom (Mary J Blige and Missy Elliot), and Matt Howe (GRAMMY AWARD for "Miseducation" by Lauren Hill).

The new album Musica contains 12 new songs including the homonymous single - inspired by Roberto Benigni's movie La Tigre e La Neve (The Tiger and the Snow). The new duet version of this single with English singer Nate James is climbing the Italian charts! In 1996 Paolo won the Vina del Mar International Song Festival held in Chile with the song "Aria, Ario." In 1997, the success of the song prompted the release of his debut album, Por Amor. In 2003 he released the single "Vero Falso" and the album Lei e that went both gold (with 50,000 copies sold) and double platinum (200,000 copies sold) by October of that year. In 2005 Favola (Fable) achieved Platinum status and sold more that 200,000 copies. Paolo participated in the Festival de Sanremo 2007, with the song "Music," it has achieved both tremendous popularity and the approval of Pippo Baudo and has come to define The Manifest of the Festival de Sanremo. Paolo is now representing his home country Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 taking place in Belgrade, Serbia. He will compete with the pop ballad "Era Stupendo" and will take part in the second semifinal of the contest on Thursday, May 22, 2008, competing against 18 other countries vying for one of 10 spots in the final on Saturday the 24th. These 10 songs will join the other 10 qualifiers from the fist semifinal, and 5 songs pre-qualified for the final. Paolo participated in the Sanremo Music Festival 2008, performing the song "Grande."