In her third album in Italian, Marco Maratti and Angelo Valsiglio, they are no more part of “Laura's work team", in their places, entered Alfredo Cerruti Jr. and Dado Parisini. The change was made because Pausini represented for them (Maratti and Valsiglio) just a source of money, they didn't give chances for she to express herself.

"This is my most important disk, I couldn’t and I cannot wander: now I have much more responsibility. Therefore I decided to change the work group, that took me straight to the success: because they treated me as a child, without not even to listen my opinions. It is fact that I can work how I want, in a straitght contact with authors, musicians, producers, following the product of the beginning at the end. And also writing, finally, the lyrics of a song: "Il Mondo che Vorrei"."

Laura succeed in changing, because in her new work "Le Cose Che Vivi", she got to show her grown artistic and personal sides, it is not just an commercial album, as Valsiglio liked to do. This is her work most elaborated, and the first destined to the international market, counting with the presence of musicians of international fame as the bassoonist Nathan East and the drummer Steve Ferrone that are collaborating habitual of Eric Clapton and Phil Collins, London Symphony Orchestra, governed by Geoff Wesley, also were present in the music "Mi Dispiace ", without speaking that some music were recorded at the famous studio Abbey Road, where Beatles recorded their music. Seems also that with this third album, Pausini made peace with the critics and the Italian press, all harmonize that she grew. She grew, but without losing her "pure and sincere feelings".

In her fourth album: "Le Cose Che Vivi " that released on September 12, 1996, it was released in 32 countries, it has a complete version in Spanish: " Las Cosas Che Vives " and a version in Italian with 03 songs in Portuguese: "Tudo o que eu vivo", "Inesquecível " and " Apaixonados Como Nós". Already were sold more than 2 million copies all over the world. Laura started in that album as composer, writing the music: " Il Mondo Che Vorrei", but it isn’t only one more beautiful song, it is also a message against the violence on behalf of the children that suffer. And the royalties of that music will be donated to UNICEF, that invited Laura to be its "ambassadress", but she didn't accept, she could not be devoted entirely to the work, but even so, she travels on behalf of the organ, visiting children all over the world, that don't have so much luck as we have or we had, and with those visits, Laura also tries to sensitize the youths that live far away from that reality, to help the ones needed, even that is just with a smile, because this simple gesture can give hope to a child.

Laura Pausini was in Brazil in November 1996 for the release of the Le Cose Che Vivi, it was the first time that she was here. She appeared in some TV programs and she came back to Brazil to do several concerts. Laura passed her birthday (16/05/97) in Brazil, commemorating the date in the Banana Banana, in São Paulo. Laura had concerts in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo, Curitiba and Porto Alegre. In all the concerts Laura has shown an extraordinary person.

Before having finished the world tour of Le Cose Che Vivi, tour that traveled the whole world with a largest success, Laura had already begun to compose songs for the new work. Among them, "Un'Emergenza D'amore", the first single of the new work, released on September 14, 1998. Laura and her best friend, Cheope, composed this music, when they were in Rio de Janeiro, for the concerts of the Le Cose Che Vivi tour.

With the release of " Emergenza d'Amore ", the first released single of "La Mia Risposta", everyone noticed an accentuated change in the style of the Pausini's music, now much more dancing, but not less romantic. That shows us Laura Pausini is not afraid of changing, unlike a lot of people that never change their way of singing for fear of losing the fans, Laura Pausini is always changing, improving, what makes clear that she is a person that always wants to give the best for her public.

 

Released on October 15, 1998, La Mia Risposta, already in your title, it indicates that the album is a response in music form to all the interrogations that Laura was wondering since Le Cose Che Vivi. The album was released in 50 countries, it has a complete version in Italian and in Spanish and a song in English, "Looking for an Angel", in both versions. This song, it was especially composed by Phil Collins for Laura. Laura received it as a gift, since he demonstrates to be passionate for her voice.

La Mia Risposta was recorded in Milan, Hollywood and New York and it counts with Nathan East presence in the bass, John Robinson in the battery, Mike Landau in the electric guitar, Riccardo Galardini in the rhythmic guitar and of Eric Buffat in the keyboard and still of Alex Richbourg, rhythmic programmer of Janet Jackson, the responsible for the change in the rhythm of the music, now much more Soul/Pop than before.

"it was getting tired of always doing the same things. Now, also thanks to Alex Richbourg and to his rhythms that influenced a lot my way of singing, I don't scream anymore as a lunatic "

The disk was produced by Alfredo Cerrutti Jr., Dado Parisini and for Laura (she chose the musicians and the songs in this work). Laura wanted to control each sentence of the production and because of it, she has been several months in the recording studio. In this album, Laura wrote two songs and others more in partner with her faithful friend Cheope. One of the music that Laura wrote by herself was " Buone Verità ", inspired in the poem "Vivi la Vita" of Madre Teresa di Calcutá. In her songs, Pausini tries to use an easy language, many songs are dialogues, like " Tu Cosa sogni", “Anna dimmi sì ", "Buone verità", "Che bene mi fai". There's also an autobiography, dedicate to herself: "Come Una Danza ".

In La Mia Risposta, Laura comes with a new "look" very personal as in the style of singing. The change in the visual is due to Laura's fact to have discovered "a less innocent, more sensual side ". According to her own: "ended in me the conflict of being woman in the body and adolescent in the soul". And this change is reflected in the disk, because it was born of Laura's physical desire to tell who she is, with music that makes her not to use only the voice, but also her body that she finally began to love.

"I chose the musicians and the songs. I feel safer, I desire to respect my physicist and I am not more afflicted in choosing: I can speak openly of sensuality in the music ".

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