Luce (Tramonti a nord est)

"Luce (Tramonti a nord est)"
Single by Elisa
from the album Asile's World
Released26 February 2001
GenrePop, soul
Length4:24
LabelSugar
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Corrado Rustici
Elisa singles chronology
"Asile's World"
(2002)
"Luce (Tramonti a nord est)"
(2001)
"Heaven out of Hell"
(2003)

"Luce (Tramonti a nord est)"[1] (translating to 'Light (Sunsets in the North-East)') is a song by Italian singer-songwriter Elisa released on 6 March 2001 as the fourth and final extract from the second studio album Asile's World by Sugar Music. The English version of the song, "Come Speak to Me" was published in 2002.

With the song Elisa won the 2001 Sanremo Music Festival contest, being awarded six prizes, including Mia Martini Critics' Prize and the Songwriter Award.[2] The song is considered by Italian music critics a classic of Italian music culture of the new millennium and one of the best song in the history of the Sanremo Festival, being included in numerous publications and lists, including Rolling Stone Italia,[3] TV Sorrisi e Canzoni,[4] Rockol[5] and Panorama.[6]

The song became the singer's first number one in the Italian singles chart, also debuting Swiss, Belgian and Dutch charts.

  1. ^ "Luce (tramonti a nord est)" Music Video
  2. ^ "Vent'anni fa Elisa a Sanremo. Il trionfo della ragazza vestita di bianco". Il Piccolo (in Italian). 4 March 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Le 20 canzoni italiane più belle del millennio". Rolling Stone Italia (in Italian). 25 August 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  4. ^ Ciavarelli, Giulia (16 August 2017). "Canzoni pop italiane degli anni 2000". TV Sorrisi e Canzoni (in Italian). Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  5. ^ "I vincitori del referendum: parlano Elisa e Zucchero". Rockol (in Italian). 11 January 2011. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Le 100 canzoni italiane più belle del ventunesimo secolo". Panorama (in Italian). 28 February 2023. Retrieved 19 July 2023.