Laura Pausini Sang ‘Mi Historia Entre Tus Dedos’ at Karaoke Parties For Years, Now, She’s Reviving it For ‘Yo Canto 2’

Laura Pausini released Yo Canto (Io Canto successful Italian) backmost successful 2006, a singular medium featuring covers of iconic Italian popular classics. It was a transcontinental deed successful some its Italian and Spanish versions.

Now, astir 2 decades later, the Italian superstar is revisiting that winning look — and doubling down connected it. Pausini has announced plans to grounds not one, but 2 follow-ups: Yo Canto 2 volition beryllium wholly successful Spanish, featuring covers of beloved songs primitively written and performed by Latin American and Spanish artists, portion Io Canto 2 volition absorption connected a repertoire primitively recorded successful Italian, her autochthonal language.

When Pausini kicks disconnected her satellite circuit successful 2026, she’ll sing successful Spanish for audiences successful Spain and Latin America, and successful Italian successful different European countries. “I’m fundamentally making 2 albums successful one, with much than 40 songs,” Pausini explained during a speech with Billboard from a workplace successful Rome. “It’s the archetypal clip I’ve done the aforesaid conception for 2 albums, but with 2 wholly antithetic sets of repertoire.”

There’s 1 tangible span betwixt the 2 albums, though: archetypal azygous “Mi historia entre tus dedos” (or “La Mia Storia Tra le Dita”), which drops connected Friday (September 12) was primitively written and recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Gianluca Grignani successful 1994. The way was a monolithic deed successful some Italy and Latin America, acknowledgment to its versions successful Spanish and Italian and has remained a staple crossed continents.

Pausini archetypal heard the opus portion watching Grignani execute astatine the 1994 Sanremo Music Festival connected TV. “It instantly struck a chord with me,” she shared. “But implicit the years, I realized that this opus continued to resonate profoundly wrong me. So overmuch so, that I told Gianluca that musically and emotionally, it feels similar it was written for me.” In fact, the opus has go 1 of Pausini’s go-to picks for karaoke parties, particularly connected her birthday. “Every clip I sing it with my friends, they say, ‘This sounds similar it’s yours.’”

“Mi historia entre tus dedos” was primitively expected to beryllium portion of Yo Canto successful 2006, but Pausini yet decided to prevention it for different time. In the years since, she’s recorded much of Grignani’s music, including the antecedently unreleased “Antes de irte” successful 2009. “He’s a precise beloved songwriter and has ever been truthful saccharine with me. He’s ever been present,” Pausini said of Grignani. “I truly bask paying tribute to radical who are besides my friends.”

Pausini’s instrumentality connected “Mi historia entre tus dedos” is bolder than the original, with elements of stone and physics and bold vocals. She delivers the opus with assurance alternatively than nostalgia, utilizing her distinctive dependable to battalion a punch. “I privation it had been excavation from the start,” she admitted ...