Francesca Michielin is one of the most complete and interesting artists on the current music scene. She has recently competed at the Sanremo Festival 2025 with the song “Fango in paradiso”. On October 4th, 2025, she will be the protagonist of “michielin 30 – tutto in una notte”, a special event which will celebrate her career and her 30th birthday with friends and colleagues such as Fedez, Fiorella Mannoia, Gaia, Irama and many others.
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, in May 2024 she was among the artists featured in the concert-event “Una nessuna centomila” and, together with Ema Stokholma, hosted the “Diversity Media Awards 2024.”
In December 2023 she released “Solite chiacchiere” a single which Francesca performed, along with her most beloved songs, on the New Year’s Eve stage at the Circo Massimo in Rome. In December 2022 and 2023 she held two music residencies in Milan. Accompanied by an exceptional band, the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist gave an engaging experience that managed to involve her audience fully, sharing music, personal stories, a bit of irony, and also revealing some secrets, as well as many surprises at the end of her live, such as the surprising and unexpected jam sessions. In 2023, Francesca was also the special curator of the Milan Music Week.
In September 2023, the release of the new Sky Original series “Un’estate fa” was announced, which has as its soundtrack the famous and homonymous song by Franco Califano reinterpreted by Francesca Michielin feat. Altarboy.
In July 2023, she duetted with Damien Rice on the wonderful lake-view stage of the Vittoriale.
At the beginning of June 2023, she returned to the X Factor stage as a host and released “Fulmini Addosso”, the new summer single and main track from “L’Estate più Calda”, the new Amazon Original film available from July 6th, 2023 on Prime Video.
On May 29th, the docu film “Cani Sciolti” was released on Sky Arte and Sky Uno. It offers four live performances of the most famous and significant songs by the singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, with personal anecdotes on the decisive phases of her life. The performances, taken from the Padua gig of the bonsoir tour! – Michielin10 a teatro, shines the spotlight on the present without forgetting the past and their roots.
On February 24th, 2023, she released her latest recording project “Cani Sciolti” (Columbia Records/Sony Music Italy) accompanied by the single “quello che ancora non c’è”, preceded by the songs “bonsoir” and “occhi grandi grandi”. A natural follow-up of the new and original musical wave was the tour bonsoir! – Michielin10 a teatro, produced by Vivo Concerti, whose sold-out shows led Francesca to tread some of the most historic and magical stages in Italy between February, March and April 2023. The theater tour was followed by L’Estate dei Cani Sciolti, Francesca’s summer live dates between Italian coastlines and high altitudes from early July to September 2023.
In 2022, she celebrated ten years of career, dedicating herself to new important projects: her debut as a writer with her first novel Il cuore è un organo (Mondadori), and as a presenter at the helm of Effetto terra (Sky Nature) and host of the new edition of X Factor, returning to where it all began with her triumph in 2012. Also, in 2022 she took part in the Sanremo Festival as an orchestra conductor, and on the cover night; she was an author and producer for artists of the caliber of Fabri Fibra, and with the song Nei tuoi occhi – from the soundtrack of the film Marylin ha gli occhi neri with Miriam Leone and Stefano Accorsi – she obtained a nomination for the David di Donatello in the “Best Original Song” category.
Since February 2021, she has been the author and host of the podcast MASCHIACCI – Per cosa lottano le donne oggi?, which debuted at the top of the Trending Podcast charts on Spotify and Apple Podcast. In 2021, she competed on the Sanremo Festival with the song Chiamami per nome in a duet with Fedez, gaining the second place. The song, which rose in a few hours to the first place among the most listened to songs on Spotify Italy and on all digital platforms, and entered the Spotify Global Charts and the Billboard Global Excl, dominated the Fimi/GfK chart of the best-selling singles in Italy and obtained the triple platinum certification.
In 2016, she took part for the first time ever at the Sanremo Festival with Nessun grado di separazione (double Platinum) and represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest.
