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{{Short description|Italian singer and songwriter}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Francesca Chiara
| birth_name = Francesca Chiara Casellati<ref>[https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/755773-Francesca-Chiara-Casellati Francesca Chiara Casellati-Diskographie - Discogs]</ref>
| alias = Francesca Chiara
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|03|25}}
| origin = [[Padua]], [[Italy]]
| instruments = Vocals
| genre = [[Gothic rock]]<br />[[Gothic metal]]<br />[[Symphonic metal]]
| occupations = Singer
| years_active = 1989–present
| label = [[Repo Records]]
| associated_acts = [[The LoveCrave]]<br />Mystery<br />The Flu
| website = [http://www.myspace.com/francescachiara Official MySpace]
}}

'''Francesca Chiara Palamara<ref>[https://www.cotidianul.ro/francesca-chiara-muzica-e-singurul-lucru-care-conteaza/ Francesca Chiara: „Muzica e singurul lucru care contează”]</ref>''' (born March 25, 1972, in [[Padua]], [[Italy]], as Francesca Chiara Casellati<ref>[https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Francesca_Chiara/420002 Francesca Chiara Casellati ]</ref>) is the singer and songwriter of the Italian band [[The LoveCrave]].

== Biography ==
Francesca Chiara's parents are teachers (English and Mathematics) and they still live in [[Padova]], where Francesca was born.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Her grandparents lived in [[Venice]], and she descends from a [[Venice|Venetian]] noble family, the Pisani.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Her grandmother's name was Adriana Pisani.

Francesca Chiara spent her childhood going to [[Venice]] every weekend and this is why she has always been fascinated by [[dark]] and silent atmospheres, where her music finds inspiration.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} Her first child, where born in 2010<ref>[http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=39934503&blogId=472994146 Some news at The LoveCrave MySpace]</ref> and Chiara is married to [[Tancredi Palamara]].<ref>[https://www.reporecords.de/index.php/component/content/article?id=73 Tank Palamara and Francesca Chiara ]</ref>

== Musical career ==
She wrote her first novel at the age of 10 and she wrote her first song at 13 years old.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} It was called "Survivor".

At 17 years old she spent one year in San Francisco, California graduating at [[Castro Valley High School]] and she began to sing seriously and to play guitar.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

She returned to Italy and founded the band Mystery, with [[Simon Dredo]] and [[Mauro Lentola]], producing a four-song hard rock EP.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

At 19 years old she moved from Padova to [[Milan]] and started studying music for three years in a music school but then she left it.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}} She worked in a wedding agency, sold wine through the phone and worked in a concert agency to survive and pay the rent.<ref name="rockeyez1">[http://www.rockeyez.com/interviews/int-francesca-thelovecrave.html Interview with Francesca Chiara]</ref>

She met [[Tank Palamara]] in a metal club and they started to collaborate. Their first band was called [[The Flu (group)|The Flu]] in 1996 and it was a new punk metal band. They played all over Italy and participated to the [[Sanremo Music Festival]] in 1999.<ref>[http://www.italiansinfonia.com/amsan99f.htm * Spotlight on the 1999 Festival di Sanremo * The Festival of the Italian Song]</ref>

The first album [[Il Parco Dei Sogni]] came out in Italian as a [[concept album]] with Sony Music Italy that also produced the video of the song “Streghe” (witches).<ref name="rockeyez1"/> This is a [[concept album]] and the story takes place in the future, after a war.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtv.de/music/185726-the-lovecrave/bio |title=:: MTV {{!}} Biografie {{!}} The LoveCrave {{!}} music |access-date=2010-01-10 |archive-date=2011-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607120447/http://www.mtv.de/music/185726-the-lovecrave/bio |url-status=dead }}</ref> Three girls find themselves in the Old Zone of the city and meet an old lady that brings them through a gate and shows them a wonderful park that was there before the war. There they start living the stories of the people that used to go to that park. Love, death, drugs, loneliness, jealousy and they realize that there is always a hope and that wars can't change the deep essence of mankind.<ref>[http://www.lavocedelledonne.it/cantante.aspx?id_cantante=244 Francesca Chiara - lavocedelledonne.it]</ref> It was released in 1999, it includes the songs ''Streghe'' and ''Ti Amo Che Strano'' that was presented by Francesca Chiara at the famous [[Festival di Sanremo]] in 1999.<ref>[http://new.music.yahoo.com/francesca-chiara/albums/parco-dei-sogni--193477777 Il Parco Dei Sogni | Francesca Chiara Album | Yahoo! Music]</ref>

After various experiences into electronic and alternative music Tank and Francesca created in year 2003 the new [[gothic rock]] band [[The LoveCrave]] with Bob Machine on drums and [[Simon Dredo]] on bass<ref>[http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-reviews/l/lovecrave/the_angel_and_the_rain/index.htm The LoveCrave ~ The Angel and the Rain at laut.de] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080529133743/http://www.laut.de/lautstark/cd-reviews/l/lovecrave/the_angel_and_the_rain/index.htm |date=May 29, 2008 }}</ref> and released with the band 2006 the album [[The Angel And The Rain]].<ref>[http://www.auroraborealis.de.tl/TheLoveCrave--g-The-Angel-And-The-Rain-g-.htm?PHPSESSID=18fabd4192e9eec6182a842cb47fd0e1 The LoveCrave "The Angel And The Rain", VÖ 20.10.2006, Repo Records]</ref>

== Influences ==
Inspired by movies like The Crow, Blade Runner, Edward Scissorhands, Matrix ... FC's music has always had a mysterious and aggressive side that creates contrasts with her love for great melodies. Her biggest influences come from the eighties rock/metal (Iron Maiden, Queensryche but also AC/DC, Joan Jett and Sex Pistols...) to the nineties gothic wave (HIM, Paradise Lost...) . "Writing a melody is the hardest part cause it has to be simple, emotional and instinctive and it has to be the mirror of the words you are saying, so every great melody is an influence for me."<ref>[http://www.darkmoments.de/ML2007.htm Mera Luna 2007]</ref>

== Discography ==

* 1992 - Mystery - EP
* 1997 Sony Music Francesca Chiara - L’onda – single
* 1998 Sony Music Francesca Chiara – Streghe – single
* 1999 Sony Music Francesca Chiara – Ti Amo Che Strano – single
* 1999 Sony Music Francesca Chiara - Il Parco Dei Sogni - album
* 2006 Repo Records [[The LoveCrave]] - [[The Angel And The Rain]] - album
* 2010 Repo Records [[The LoveCrave]] - Soul Saliva - album

=== Collections ===
* 1998 - [[Un Disco Per L'Estate]] - ''L'onda''
* 1998 - Sanremo Giovani 1998 - ''Streghe''
* 1999 - 49° Edizione del festival Di Sanremo cd blu- ''Ti Amo Che Strano''
* 2006 - Zilloscope 11/06 (ZILLO mag -DE) - ''Little Suicide''
* 2006 - Cold Hands Seduction Vol.64 (SONIC SEDUCER mag - DE) - ''Vampires (The Light That We Are)''
* 2006 - Loud Sounds (ROCK HARD mag - ITA) - ''Nobody''
* 2006 - ClubTRAX Vol. 2 Double CD (XtraX store - DE) - ''Little Suicide''
* 2007 - Gothic Magazine Compilation - ''Can You Hear Me?''
* 2007 - Summer Darkness 07 (ZILLO mag -DE) - ''Can You Hear Me?''

=== Video/DVD ===
* 1999 - ''Streghe''
* 2006 - Zillo DVD "Dark Visions" - ''Fading Roses'' - colonna sonora
* 2007 - Zillo DVD "Dark Visions 2" - ''Can You Hear Me?'' live at M'Era Luna Festival
* 2007 - Zillo DVD "Dark Visions 2" - ''Can You Hear Me?'' colonna sonora menù

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.francescachiara.com Francesca Chiara's web-site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/francescachiaraofficial - Official MySpace]
* [http://www.thelovecrave.com/ The LoveCrave official site]

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