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Listen to Lessons to Be Learned on Imeemblog

Listen to “Lessons to Be Learned” on Imeem

Go to Gabriella Cilmi's Imeem page to listen to her discuss the songs on her album "Lessons To Be Learned."
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gabriellacilmi Mar 30, 2009
Gabriella Cilmi's Performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!blog

Gabriella Cilmi's Performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!

Check out Gabriella Cilmi's performance of "Sweet About Me" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!
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gabriellacilmi Mar 25, 2009
Gabriella on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!blog

Gabriella on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!

Be sure to check out Gabriella Cilmi on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon next Tuesday, 3/24!
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gabriellacilmi Mar 20, 2009
Gabriella on Vh-1blog

Gabriella on Vh-1

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gabriellacilmi Mar 19, 2009
Gabriella Cilmi on Vimby and Alloy!blog

Gabriella Cilmi on Vimby and Alloy!

Be sure to check out these interviews with Gabriella Cilmi on Vimby and Alloy!VimbyAlloy:Ultimate MixSave the LiesSweet About MeAlbumJewelry
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gabriellacilmi Mar 18, 2009
Lessons to Be Learned In Stores NOW!blog

"Lessons to Be Learned" In Stores NOW!

Gabriella Cilmi's US debut album, Lessons to Be Learned, is IN STORES TODAY!  Make sure to pick it up! Check it out here
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gabriellacilmi Mar 17, 2009
Lessons to Be Learned In Stores TOMORROW!blog

"Lessons to Be Learned" In Stores TOMORROW!

Don't forget Gabriella Cilmi's US debut, Lessons to Be Learned, will be in stores TOMORROW! You can pre-order the album now on Amazon!
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gabriellacilmi Mar 16, 2009
Gabriella Cilmi in Blast Magazine!blog

Gabriella Cilmi in Blast Magazine!

Be sure to check out Gabriella Cilmi on the cover of BlastMagazine.com!
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gabriellacilmi Mar 06, 2009
Listen to Gabriella LIVE on World Cafeblog

Listen to Gabriella LIVE on World Cafe

Listen to Gabriella LIVE on World Cafe, Wednesday, March 18th from 2pm to 4pm ESTIf you miss the live stream then you can hear it…
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gabriellacilmi Mar 04, 2009
Sneek Peek video on Vimby!blog

Sneek Peek video on Vimby!

Click here to view a sneek peek video of Gabriella Cilmi on Vimby.com!
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gabriellacilmi Feb 20, 2009
Sweet About Me on iTunes Now!blog

"Sweet About Me" on iTunes Now!

Make sure to get Gabriella Cilmi's single, "Sweet About Me," now on iTunes!
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gabriellacilmi Feb 12, 2009
VH-1 Top 20 Countdown!blog

VH-1 Top 20 Countdown!

Make sure to vote for Gabriella Cilmi's "Sweet About Me" on the Vh-1 Top 20 Countdown!
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gabriellacilmi Feb 10, 2009
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Gabriella Cilmi (more info)
Official Artist
  • Label: Island Records
  • Label Type: major
  • About:
    Her school didn't get Gabriella, wouldn't even let her have a part in their musical. So she teamed up with some boys from another school in the Melbourne neighbourhood and practised in the drummer's garage. They played Jet covers, Led Zepplin and Kings Of Leon songs, but it was when she got up to sing at a local festival that things started to happen. "I sang Jumping Jack Flash at this Italian festa, the kind of place where the old people sell their wines. They usually have opera singers. I got on the stage and they were like, WHAT?!"

    A year on, and she's making her UK debut in a London club. Between songs she smiles, seems a little nervous, but when she sings Sweet About Me she's an explosion. Looking and singing like she knows life inside out, like she's truly seen everything there is to see.

    "My dad liked Blondie. My mum absolutely loved Sweet. And my uncles used to play in a garage band so there was always music going on around me. I grew up in the same kind of area of Melbourne as AC/DC - they used to practise around the corner from where I went to school."

    Now the girl who had danced around her front room to Shaggy's Oh Carolina when she was three, and bought her first record - Silverchair - when she was seven, had inadvertently got herself noticed. Someone from Mushroom happened to be at the Italian bash and was very impressed indeed. Pretty soon she was signed to Island and landed herself with peerless eccentric pop collaborator Brian Higgins.

    Her voice is equal parts animal snarl, vocal might and jazz slyness, and she has looks to melt. At his idyllic studio in Kent, in a house where Alice Liddell- the real life Alice In Wonderland - lived, Gabriella wrote the songs for Lessons To Be Learned. "Einstein is about stuff that I don't understand, like how they can send people into space yet there are so many sick children in hospital."

    Sanctuary was personal, too. "We filmed me singing it and put it up on youtube and a friend was like 'is that about me? It's about me!' and I'm like, NO!" Teen traumas, unpolished thoughts, lessons learnt. One of her earliest songs was called Teenage Outrage and that pretty much adds up. Days were spent in the studio, as final touches were layered onto the single Sweet About Me –“from the start I was saying this track needs harmonica – and it’s there”. In the evening she listened to Cat Stevens ("Tuesday's Dead is my favourite song right now"), watched Pocahontas over and over, and cried everytime.

    School's out not just for summer, she's been in the UK for five months now. "I've been given an assignment to write on how music has influenced fashion. Johnny Cash- he wore white once you know! - and Prince and Adam and The Ants..."
    How about Pete and Kate?
    "I don't think they'll be like Johnny Cash and June Carter. I can't see them raising a musical family, but you never know"

    Gabriella misses her friends, misses decent coffee, but otherwise reckons "London's cool. I saw Queens Of The Stone Age last week. I liked going to the Big Day Out every year – the best was in 2006, with the Stooges -but there's a lot more going on here. The weather's
    even worse than Melbourne, though." With the breezy confidence that only a teenage girl with the world at her feet can possess, she already has plans beyond pop. "I fancy myself as a bit of a photographer…..but
    I haven’t won any prizes yet…maybe one day…pffft…!"

    So she doesn't regret the move? Doesn't think she should have stayed home and written that book her Nonno tried to convince her to write about his winemaking? "Err, no. My Nonno’s always forcing me to drink his wine! 'It's good for you' he says. He won't drink anything else. But you know what? It tastes like nail polish remover."

    Nonno's loss is our gain. She's a star. You'll be gobsmacked.

    Bob Stanley
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  • Member Since: 2008-10-30