{"id":1994418,"date":"2025-09-03T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1994418"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:07:18","slug":"texas-singer-songwriter-takes-new-approach-to-old-italian-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/texas-singer-songwriter-takes-new-approach-to-old-italian-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas singer-songwriter takes new approach to old Italian music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the only Italian vocalists you know are Pavarotti and Bocelli, meet Amanda Pascali, a Texas singer-songwriter who takes an intriguing new approach to Italian music.<\/p>\n

Working with Fort Worth producer Robert Ellis, Pascali puts a new spin on old Sicilian folk songs on her latest album, Roses and Basil<\/i>, out Sept. 12. <\/p>\n

After writing new English lyrics for the tunes, she reinvented the music with help from Ellis. \u201cWake Up, Baby! (E Vui Durmiti Ancora)\u201d sounds like a long-lost Phil Spector track, while \u201cAmuri\u201d would blend in easily with Shakira on a playlist.<\/p>\n

For \u201cAmuri,\u201d Pascali dug up a Sicilian love poem and \u201cset those ancient verses to a groovy cumbia\/Latin rhythm \u2026 giving new life to an ancient work that still feels relatable today,\u201d she explained on Instagram.<\/p>\n

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Her silky voice and globe-trotting sound might strike a chord with fans of Laufey, but Pascali rarely performs onstage due to a busy academic career. A past Fulbright Scholar, she\u2019s now a fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, researching ethnomusicology and Italian Studies.<\/p>\n

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The All-American Rejects rocked a Dallas skate park on Wednesday <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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If the only Italian vocalists you know are Pavarotti and Bocelli, meet Amanda Pascali, a Texas singer-songwriter who takes an intriguing new approach to Italian music. Working with Fort Worth producer Robert Ellis, Pascali puts a new spin on old Sicilian folk songs on her latest album, Roses and Basil, out Sept. 12. After writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[351215,21800,22149,23083,22428],"class_list":["post-1994418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-arts-access","tag-music","tag-musicians","tag-pop-music","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}