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Taleesa   (Italy)

AKA : Emanuella Gubinelli
EuroDance group
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Latest Taleesa news

11/04/2022 : Eurodance divas Taleesa, Annerley Gordon, Kim Lukas, Linda Rocco and Joy Salinas will be online during a live stream taking place on April 13th

04/01/2010 : Taleesa was featured by the DJs duo Muthagroove on a cover of the classic My Body And Soul

18/11/2009 : During her appearance on the stage of Italo party 2009, Taleesa announced that a new single was on its way...

08/04/2009 : On November 14th 2009, Berlin will host a big Italo Party in Berlin. With names such as Taleesa, Playahitty, the Soundlovers, Len Laszlo, Roby Pinna, and many more... All infos here (thanks to eurodance blog)

03/05/2007 : Taleesa has a new song which was created in collaboration with a Swedish team. She is currently in studio recodrding the vocals. Release should be this summer or more likely in September. Taleesa could also be thinking of stopping her singer carreer for producing (thanks to Tavi Meran).

01/01/2006 : A gallery of Taleesa's live performance in Barcelona in 2001 was done, it is featured on Taleesa's French weblog.

27/10/2003 : Taleesa recorded a new single with De La Cruz, it is entitled In My Mind and it will be released this week (thanks to Sergio).

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Taleesa albums

Whatever Happened Lately

1999

BUY X

Taleesa singles

	Falling In Love	1994	BUY X
	I Found Luv	12th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Let Me Be	2nd Feb 1995	BUY X
	Burning Up	6th Jun 1995	BUY X
	Jambalaya (on the Bayou)	1996	BUY X
	I Wanna Give	1997	BUY X
	Internet Love Compilation only	1997	BUY X
	You And Me	1998	BUY X
	Kisses, Kisses, Bye-Bye	1998	BUY X
	Over You	2003	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Jilly - Hot Love Desire		BUY X
	Maggie May - Tell Me		BUY X
	Angel - Dancing in Paris (que pasa)	1985	BUY X
	Den Harrow - Day By Day	1988	BUY X
	Angel - Touch my heart	1989	BUY X
	Stefano Secchi - Da Ya Think I'm Secchi (album)	1991	BUY X
	Bella & Blue - Magic	1991	BUY X
	Bella & Blue - Toy joy my boy	1991	BUY X
	Citizen Kane - Everybody May Be Wrong	1991	BUY X
	Jackie Moore - Let Me Try Again	1991	BUY X
	Angie Starr - Hold Me Please	1991	BUY X
	Donna Luna - Come On Come On	1991	BUY X
	Giselle - Baby I'm Sorry	1991	BUY X
	Lilac - When I'm With You	1991	BUY X
	Mandy Gordon - Tokyo Night	1991	BUY X
	Morena - Open Your Heart	1991	BUY X
	Bella & Blue - A Reason To Love	1992	BUY X
	Helen K - Me And You	1992	BUY X
	8 AM - Baby Don't Stop	1992	BUY X
	Angie Starr - Just In Time	1992	BUY X
	Donna Luna - If I Can't Have You	1992	BUY X
	Maggie Sue - Love Me Do	1992	BUY X
	Morena - Everyday	1992	BUY X
	Paula Marsh - Baila Macho	1992	BUY X
	Ross - I Promise My Heart	1992	BUY X
	Virgin - Can You Do It Forever	1992	BUY X
	Stefano Secchi - We Are Easy To Love	1992	BUY X
	Co-Ro - Because The Night	2nd Jul 1992	BUY X
	Emanuella - Satisfied	1993	BUY X
	Morena - My Heart And My Soul	1993	BUY X
	Morena - Stop Me	1993	BUY X
	Virgin - Tell Me I'm The One	1993	BUY X
	Virgin - You're So Crazy	1993	BUY X
	Stefano Secchi - A Brighter Day	1993	BUY X
	Co-Ro - There's Something Going On	1st May 1993	BUY X
	Co-Ro - There's Something Going On	1st May 1993	BUY X
	Aladino - Make It Right Now	13th Aug 1993	BUY X
	Co-Ro - 4 Your Love	15th Oct 1993	BUY X
	Aladino - Brothers In The Space	Dec 1993	BUY X
	Stefano Secchi - One Love In My Lifetime	1994	BUY X
	Aladino - Call My Name	1994	BUY X
	No Name - Promise	1994	BUY X
	Morena - Got To Feel It	1994	BUY X
	Ann Sinclaire - Don't Drop Me	1995	BUY X
	Ann Sinclair - Love And Fire	1996	BUY X
	Jilly - Feelin' Blue	1996	BUY X
	Jilly - Sexy Lady (Over And Over)	1996	BUY X
	Linda Ross - Light My Heart	1996	BUY X
	Morena - Faithful	1996	BUY X
	Morena - Music Takes My Breath Away	1996	BUY X
	Sally Rendell - Suit Case Sally	1996	BUY X
	Leslie Parrish - Heart Of Stone	Jun 1996	BUY X
	Anika - Sexy Shock	Nov 1996	BUY X
	Ann Sinclaire - Like Ah Rainbow	1997	BUY X
	Morena - Ready For Love	1997	BUY X
	Linda Ross - Eternity	Apr 1997	BUY X
	Serena - Let The Music Take Control	Oct 1997	BUY X
	Linda Ross - Riding In The Sky	1998	BUY X
	Anika - In The Name Of Passion	Jan 1998	BUY X
	Vanessa - Kiss Kiss Kiss Me	Sep 1998	BUY X
	Ann Sinclaire - I Wanna Go	1999	BUY X
	Moonlight - Love Control	1999	BUY X
	De La Cruz - My Love Is A DJ	2001	BUY X
	De La Cruz - Listen To My Heart	2002	BUY X
	De La Cruz - There Is No Right	2002	BUY X
	DJ Stefy - The Promise You Made	2003	BUY X
	De La Cruz - In My Mind	Oct 2003	BUY X
	De La Cruz - Where U Belong	2005	BUY X
	De La Cruz - Where U Belong	2005	BUY X
	Javi Crecente - In My Mind	2009	BUY X
	Muthagroove - My Body and Soul	4th Dec 2009	BUY X

Productions, co-production, executive production

	B-13 - Shame Of (Scemo)	1993	BUY X
	She's Ah Rebel - Piece Of My Heart	1995	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Wanna B Like A Man	4th Aug 1997	BUY X

Compositions

	House Family ft. Dora Carofiglio - Honey I Feel So Free	1991	BUY X
	Olimpia ft. Maria Capri - Come On Come On	1992	BUY X
	Valery (2) - Get It Together	1993	BUY X
	Etienne Tulet ft. Dora Carofiglio - Boy	1994	BUY X
	Copernico - I Believe	21st Mar 1995	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Wanna B Like A Man	4th Aug 1997	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Luv Thang	11th May 1998	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Good Times	15th Jul 1999	BUY X

Songwriting

	Novecento - Heart On The Line	1991	BUY X
	Den Harrow - Ocean	1991	BUY X
	House Family ft. Dora Carofiglio - Honey I Feel So Free	1991	BUY X
	Olimpia ft. Maria Capri - Come On Come On	1992	BUY X
	Valery (2) - Get It Together	1993	BUY X
	B-13 - Shame Of (Scemo)	1993	BUY X
	Ex-Melody - Love Destiny	1994	BUY X
	Etienne Tulet ft. Dora Carofiglio - Boy	1994	BUY X
	Mr Signo - Loverboy	1994	BUY X
	Antares - Ride On A Meteorite	27th Jan 1995	BUY X
	Copernico - I Believe	21st Mar 1995	BUY X
	Morena - Music Takes My Breath Away	1996	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Wanna B Like A Man	4th Aug 1997	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Luv Thang	11th May 1998	BUY X
	Simone Jay - Good Times	15th Jul 1999	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Manuela - I'm Crazy For You	1987	BUY X
	Manuela - Love For Free	1988	BUY X
	Talysha - Living For Love	1990	BUY X

Taleesa biography

Emanuella Gubinelli aka Taleesa was born on the 19th November 1971 in Santa Monica, California (or Matelica, Italy according to some toher sources). Her parents had Italian origins and she received a very strict education. She studied in a religious college and learned how to sing, play piano and violin. She started singing in a local band at the tender age of 9. Then, as she was still an adolescent, she escaped from home to follow her rock band for a tour in Europe.

After this tour, the young Taleesa signed a contract with WEA, but it proved not to be exactly what she wanted. So after 2 years she broke the contract and moved to Milan, Italy, to give a new direction to her carrer. She started working in studio as composer and arranger.

She started gaining credibility as author when the 2 songs (Say Yeah and Keep On Jammin) she had written for Stefano Secchi became hits. This allowed her to restart her singer carreer and to record songs such as One Love the Lifetime, Living 2 Love and Baby Don't Stop that had some success in France and a few other European countries. She also released a single under her real name Emmanuella, entitled Satisfied, in collaboration with B. Sanchioni.

It is less known that she also contributed to many eurobeat projects which had success mainly mainly in Japan : Linda Ross, Morena, Jilly, Ann Sinclaire, Vanessa, Gisele, Paula Marsh, Serena, Maggie Sue, and many more...

But success came as she was a vocalist featured by the duo Cozzi and Rossi (Co.Ro) on the version they had made to Because The Night (a cover of Patty Smith and Bruce Springsteen). Her impressive voice appeared also on There's Something Going On/I Break Down And Cry, and on the following album that Co.Ro released in 1993. After her singles with Co.Ro became a hit in America, Emanuella decided to go solo again.

The same year she recorded with Stefano Secchi 2 singles We Are Easy to Love and A Brighter Day. She probably did vocals on the following singles :
Amanda Baker ‎- Knock On Wood (1999)
Den Harrow ‎- Ocean (1991)
Kim Martin - Welcome To My Heaven (1991)
Maxxine - The Wings Of Love (1992)
Olimpia ‎- Come On Come On (1992) (with Maria Capri)

Then, under the pseudonym of Aladino she released 3 eurodance singles : Make It Right Now, Brothers In Space and Call My Name, all of them being very successful in Europe. In 1993 she also collaborated with G. Spagna on Dave Hammond's single All My World.

One of her first singles under her name was I Found Luv, written by G. Amir Saraf and Uli Brenner, produced by Giacomo Maiolini featuring raps of Michael Romeo. After that, she returned to Italy and recorded many other songs. Falling In Love was a song produced by Visnadi under Flying Records, re-released by ZYX. Emanuella co-wrote and co-composed Burning Up with Trivellato and Sachetto. She also co-wrote and co-composed Let Me Be, this time with W. Cremonini and A. Gilardi. The song was produced by Giacomo Maiolini and released under Time Records). It is said that ragga-rap was done by Asher Senator and not by Sly-G, the dancer who shared the stage with Taleesa.

Then in 1996 came a country-flavored dance single called Jambalaya, which was a cover of an old rock song produced by Michael Corkran.

The following release was called I Wanna Give. It was not really dance music, so it was not very succesful, even if the song was good. Taleesa started touring all over the world, she enven presented some TV shows in Brazil where she also gave live gigs in discos.

In 1996, Taleesa started a new collaboration with G. Spagna : her name appeared on Paul Rogers' Wanna Be My Lover and Morena's Music Take My Breathe Away.

With Internet Love, she was back on dance music. This very energetic song was only released on compilations. Once again it was a collaboration with the duo Saraf-Brenner.

With You And Me Taleesa really moved to a more housy trend. The music, the style and the way she sings sounds like Gala, and even being a good dance song, it is very different from what we're used to.

With Kisses, Kisses, Bye-Bye Taleesa gave us a nice, fast Italo song which, for some, reminded Simone Jay's Wanna Be Like A Man. It had some success locally in Italy. Then she came back to her native California.

Her last single to be released under the name of Taleesa was called Beach Boy, a kind of pop song.

Nowadays she lives in Milan. She also owns a house in California. She loves to travel. She says she believes in God. She likes Madonna for whom she has a lot of admiration.

1998 : she co-wrote Simone Jay's single Luv Thang. Rumors say that she could have released an album entitled Singles Collection but it can't be found anywhere.

1999 : she released a single under the name of Axia entitled Love In December and another one under the name of Moonlight entitled Love Control (produced by Turatti/Melloni). She also recorded in her own studio a complete album called Whatever Happened Lately?, aka Que Pasa Ultimamente?. It contained 12 songs in Spanish and English with a combination of ballads and rock. Taleesa, accompanied by a music group and dancers, toured for over a year many countries in South America. She described the tour like the best experience of her life.

2001 : she appeared on 2 singles released by De La Cruz : My Love Is A DJ and Listen To My Heart.

2002 : she kept on collaborating with De La Cruz for their new single, the very nice There's No Right.

2003 : Taleesa released a new single under her name, the song was entiled Over You, and the music was Kylie Minogue style. The single was published by Vale Music Spain, written by Michael Corkran (her boyfriend), Emanuela Gubinelli herself, and V. Gaffurini. It was produced in her own studios Luv-en-colors.

Later the same yer, she recorded with Aron Michael a single for DJ Stefy entitled The Promise You Made. She already started working on a new single...

In October, she recorded a new single for De La Cruz In My Mind. The new single was released under Elite Records, the new label that DJ Richard & Johnny Bass (the brothers who stand behind De La Cruz) created after leaving Vale Music.

2005 : Taleesa recorded a new song for De La Cruz called Where U Belong. It entered the American chart at #35.

2007 : Taleesa recorded a melodical pop song entiled Children Alone, written by her husband Michael Corkran and Roberto Baeli. All the rights of the song will be destinated to Action Aid... Nowdays she is mainly working as a producer for other artists with big level in Italy. She is also doing remixes in studios in New York City and in her own studios based in Los Angeles..

2009 : Taleesa was featured by the DJs duo Muthagroove on a cover of the classic My Body And Soul. In November, during her appearance on the stage of Italo party 2009, Taleesa announced that a new single was on its way.

2011 : Taleesa is working hard on her company Luv en Colors, now mostly dedicated to the film market, telefilm production and media management.

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Thanks to Selena Valeria Giannobi, Alberto, Sergio, Tominho and Andrew-FK
Thanks to Edgar JR for the pics
Thanks to 90s Dance Music Website

Taleesa biography was last updated Sat, August 28th 2021

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