Nashville, TN – Creative and Dreams signs Romina Power, a major international talent known throughout the world as a singer- songwriter. In June 2012, Power Entertainment signs with Rose Drake’s label, “Creative and Dreams Music Network,” an exclusive deal for marketing and distribution worldwide.
Romina was born in Los Angeles, California and is the eldest daughter of American actor Tyrone Power and his second wife, actress Linda Christian.
After her parents divorced in 1956, Romina Power traveled extensively around the world but resided mainly in Mexico and Italy, where she spent much of her childhood. Romina also attended a boarding school in England, where she discovers the emerging music of the 60’s. Inspired by the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and she begins composing her own music.
After school in England, Romina moves to Rome, Italy where she is discovered and launched as a young actress at the age of 14. She appears in starring roles mainly in Italian movies.
On the set of “Nel Sole”, an Italian musical movie production, in the late 60’s she meets her future husband, singer Al Bano Carrisi . They marry in 1970, after having worked together on the recording of her first hit single “Acqua di Mare”, which was the winner of “Festival Bar”, a major summer competition featuring the most popular Italian artists of that time.
Al Bano & Romina Power become a singing duo in 1975, and eventually have an incredible string of successes in various countries of Latin America and Europe, amongst which Germany, Austria , Spain, USSR and Romania, where,after the fall of the general secretary of the communist party and president Nicolae Ceausescu, their song ,”Liberta’ “ ,“ Freedom “ was played on national radio .
In 1980, Al Bano & Romina Power win the special Kawakami award in the Yamaha pop festival in Japan . In 1984 they win the prestigious San Remo song festival in Italy with “ Ci sara’ “. The singing duo became household names throughout Europe with hits like “Felicita’ “ , “ Tu , soltanto tu” , “ Sempre sempre “ , “Liberta’ “ ,”Sharazan “ and have a huge fan base that still exists today. The couple divorced in 1999. They have four children.
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Since 2000, Romina has organized exhibitions of her paintings in Venice, Rome Milan, Florence, Los Angeles and Santa Monica. Romina hosted several prime time variety shows on Italian TV , as an actress she recited for three years in “The Vagina Monologues “ on the Italian stage from 2004 till 2006.
She has also published several books, both fiction and non- fiction. In 2004, she travels to India with her son Yari Carrisi-Power , where she writes and directs her first film “Upaya.” In 2007, she moves to the United States, to escape the intrusive attention from the Italian press and to assist her mother, bed-ridden with colon cancer.
In August 2011, Romina reconnects with an old friend, music entrepreneur Fred Cannon, whom she had worked with in the past in Italy and France. Cannon discovers that Romina has an unreleased completed album “Da Lontano ,” recorded in 1998,produced by her with Yari Carrisi-Power and Maurizio Fabrizio and convinces her to release it .
With the genial touch of the legendary mastering engineer, Greg Lukens and his associate Colin Peterson , the album becomes a reality. The release of “Da Lontano” is expected in September.
