Libera (song)
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| Libera | ||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1977 entry | ||
| Country | Italy | |
| Artist(s) | Domenica Bertè | |
| As | Mia Martini | |
| Language | Italian | |
| Composer(s) | Salvatore Fabrizio | |
| Lyricist(s) | Luigi Albertelli | |
| Place | 13th | |
| Points | 33 | |
| Lyrics | from Diggiloo Thrush | |
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"Libera" (English translation: "Free") was the Italian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1977, performed in Italian by Mia Martini.
The song is a ballad, with the singer describing herself as being "free" and listing a series of things she is free to do. Importantly, though, she tells her listeners that "I know well what I want, what I don't want/I have my pride, you don't even come into it/Find myself in love, but not bound to you/A woman who is used to walk on her own".
The original version of "Libera", as shown in the ESC previews video, was a slow ballad. The song was however later made into an up-tempo disco track with an arrangement loosely based on Boney M.'s 1976 interpretation of Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" and that was the version performed in the ESC and released on record.
In Sweden the "Libera" single, backed with the English language version "Freedom Is Today", was issued by ABBA's record label Polar Music.
The song was performed fifteenth on the night (following Spain's Micky with Enséñame A Cantar and preceding Finland's Monica Aspelund with Lapponia). At the close of voting, it had received 33 points, placing 13th in a field of 18.
It was succeeded as Italian representative at the 1978 Contest by Ricchi e Poveri with "Questo amore".
Mia Martini would return to the contest fifteen years later, singing "Rapsodia" in Malmö 1992.
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