Singer Laura Pausini has rebounded from a pandemic funk and is up for an Oscar.
Laura Pausini was so emotionally affected by the pandemic last year that she even thought she’d never sing again. This Sunday she will do it at Hollywood’s biggest event — the Academy Awards — where she will deliver a pre-show performance of the nominated song “Io sì (Seen)” from the movie “The Life Ahead.” Co-written by Pausini and American songwriter Diane Warren, it has already received the Golden Globe and could become the first song entirely in Italian to win an Oscar. “Honestly, I never thought or dreamed of being included in a list of awards so great and so close to the world of movies, because I never thought of having such collaboration — even though I had a song in a film with Kevin Costner and Robin Wright,” Pausini told The Associated Press in reference to “One More Time,” from the 1999′s movie “Message in a Bottle.” “This time it’s different… I got the call to be part of this project last July when we were still locked up in Italy, in the pandemic. I was a little bit, I don’t know how to explain it, but I thought I wasn’t going to sing anymore,” she said. “So being able to sing in such an important film with a message of fraternity, of inclusion, of feeling protected by someone at a time in my life when I didn’t feel protected at all — this news was a shining light.
