Roberta Scimè

Born in 1989 in Sicily, Southern Italy, I live near Lake Como and I have always sung and listened to music. At the age of 9 I understood that music would be the most important thing in my life because I sang “Colors of the wind” from “Pocahontas” in front of my family: so I started to write my first songs in Italian at 10, while at 14 I started to play guitar. Then I began to write songs in English, to play as a solo act and in a group and to study singing technique. In 2017 I started to play my songs everywhere in Italy, participating and organizing a lot of musical events. In May 2018 I won two special prizes, while in August 2018 I won the First Prize of the New Proposals at Live Song Festival in Traversetolo: the Italian composer and musician Fio Zanotti chose me as the winner with my song “A thousand wishes”.

In April 2019 I won a special prize for my song “Fiume in piena” at CET – School of authors of the Italian composer Mogol. In 2020 I started to do several live streams to let music play on, despite the Covid19 pandemic, and since then I have not stopped yet! On the 8th June 2020 my ep “Once upon a time” was released in the digital stores: it contains two tracks in English, “A thousand wishes” and “Too late”, and two tracks in Italian: “Fiume in piena” and “La nostra meta”. A good success has come for this debut album: sales, visualizations and plays have come from Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. At the end of 2020 “Too late” and “A thousand wishes” have scored in the first 10 ranks at the World Songwriting Awards for the cathegory “Best Modern Country Song”. On the 30th June 2021 the song “My best portrait“, written with Silvia Tavecchio, was released on all platforms and chosen as a finalist at the World Songwriting Awards for the category “Best Modern Country Song”. On the 30th September of the same year, I’ve released a new song called “Nothing left here”: thanks to this project, I won the ISSA SILVER AWARD as INTL FEMALE SINGLE OF THE YEAR 2022. In October 2021 my trio White Dove (Virginia Maglio: fiddle, Andrea dell’Era: piano, Roberta Scimè: guitar, cajon and voice) was created and started to perform in different occasions. I’ve published different songs in 2022, finishing the year with the brand new country song “Happy new year”. I’ve also spent it playing during a lot of events and concerts, both as a solo and with my trio. Hope 2023 will be as much as satisfying as 2022, or even more!