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Older sister of former Formula 1 driver Alessandro Nannini.

August 2010: announced she's pregnant, at 54, with her first child.

The video of her song "Fotoromanza" was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni.

Lately, she often writes songs with the collaboration of writer Isabella Santacroce.

Published her autobiography "Io" (Me) in 2005.

Her greatest hits are "Fotoromanza" (1984, #1 Italy), "Bello E Impossibile" (1986), "I Maschi" (1988), "Hey Bionda" (1988) "Un' Estate Italiana" (#1 Italy and Switzerland, #2 Germany), "Extravaganza" (1994) and "Sei Nell'Anima" (2006, #1 Italy).

Took part to a protest organized by Greenpeace against the French government's decision to pursue nuclear experiments at Mururoa (1995).

Gave birth to her first daughter, Penelope (b. 26 November 2010).

An acoustic version of her song Meravigliosa Creatura (from Perle) has been used in a 2008 advertisement commercial for the Fiat Bravo directed by Matthias Zentner. Fiat would later include another Gianna Nannini song, "Aria", in a subsequent Fiat Bravo ad.

Nannini scored her first domestic hit in 1979 with the single "America" and the album California, which became a success in several European countries.

In April 2007, Nannini released Pia come la canto io, a collection of songs produced by Wil Malone and originally intended for a rock opera based on the medieval Tuscan character Pia de' Tolomei (briefly mentioned in Dante's Purgatorio).

In 1986, her song "Bello e impossibile" was a European hit in Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

N 1987 she performed with Sting and Jack Bruce the "Three Penny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

Her international breakthrough happened in 1984 with the release of her sixth album, the Conny Plank-produced Puzzle, which peaked in the top 10 in the Italian, German, Austrian and Swiss charts.

She studied piano and composition in Milan in the late 1970s and obtained a degree in Philosophy from the University of Siena in 1994.

In 2004, she released the greatest hits album Perle, where a number of her most renowned songs were rearrangement with the support of musicians such as Christian Lohr on piano (who also had a co-producer credit), and a string quartet composed of Vincenzo di Donna (first violin), Luigi de Maio (second violin), Gerardo Morrone (viola) and Antonio di Franca (violoncello).