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Elisa Toffoli was born in Monfalcone (GO), Italy, on 19th December 1977. in the north east of Italy, a small village on the borders of Austria and Slovenia. Since her childhood she showed great interest in the arts: She danced, painted, acted and wrote tales, and her love for the arts grew further as she discovered Rudyard Kipling's poems as well as the lyrics of The Doors' late frontman Jim Morrison. But it was music that was her fate; only 11 years old she wrote her first lyrics and melodies. A few years later, as her interest for music matured, Elisa started performing with different local bands and she was quickly getting into something far bigger than she had ever expected. Elisa’s pure, angelic voice and gift for melody first came to the attention of American audiences last year when her song “Dancing” was featured on Fox’s hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance. An ethereal, emotional ballad, “Dancing” hit No. 16 on the iTunes Top 20 Songs chart immediately following the show’s broadcast. A three-song EP featuring the song is currently available for purchase on iTunes. “Dancing” may have been American audiences’ first brush with the singer, but Elisa has already enjoyed an impressive career abroad. In 1997, she released her debut album Pipes & Flowers, which went triple-platinum in Italy. A succession of best-selling discs followed, including Asile’s World, Then Comes the Sun, the acoustic collection Lotus, Pearl Days, which was produced by Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Annie Lennox), and Soundtrack '96-'06 — a collection of her hit singles that has sold more than half a million copies. Elisa has also sung at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony in Salt Lake City, dueted with Luciano Pavarotti at Pavarotti & Friends, and recorded a duet with Tina Turner entitled "Teach Me Again," for the 2005 film All the Invisible Children — a collaboration featuring work by Spike Lee and John Woo. In July 2007, she dueted with Andrea Bocelli at the "Teatro del silenzio" in Lajatico, Italy and performed “Dancing.” For more information on her upcoming US tour log on to: www.elisatoffoli.com