Her debut was on the stage of the Ariston theatre for the 1994 

Sanremo Music Festival when she

sang "E poi" in the category Nuove Proposte (New Acts). At that festival she won 7th position in the
final New Act chart (losing to Andrea Bocelli who praised her in his winning speech).[10] E poi, is still
nowadays one of her most famous songs.
Her debut-album Giorgia sold more than 160,000 records (it was a best seller in Italy and enjoyed
good success in Germany too). A few months later Luciano Pavarotti asked her to perform with him
in a duet at the annual Pavarotti & friends show in Modena, Italy where she gave a performance
of Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever. She also sang with the famous tenor. In 1994 Giorgia won
the European Award as "best Young Italian artist".

Sanremo Music Festival and second album[edit]

In 1995 she returned to the Sanremo Music Festival, singing "Come saprei". She won the
competition and the critics' award too, becoming the second artist to achieve that (the first
being Domenico Modugno) but being the first Italian female singer to win both awards. During the
competition she won 4 awards. Her second album Come Thelma & Louise sold more than 300,000
copies.[10] In the same year, Todrani recorded the song "Vivo per lei" with tenor Andrea Bocelli.

Strano il mio destino (1996)[edit]

In 1996 she entered the Sanremo Music Festival for the third time with the song "Strano il mio
destino" and ended in third place. Strano il mio destino – Live & studio 95/96 is the title of her third
release, which included live tracks, the Sanremo single and another studio recording. The album
sold 270,000 copies.

Mangio troppa cioccolata (1997)[edit]

Giorgia in Rome in 2008

In the middle of 1997 she released a cover of an old Italian song by Ornella Vanoni called "Un'ora
sola ti vorrei", with a new music sound r&b oriented and a new image; later that year, her 3rd studio
album "Mangio troppa cioccolata" was released and started a new dimension on her career, with
less ballads and more uptempos, focusing more on the sound and in the interpretation than in the
vocals, something that would become a prerogative in her subsequent releases. This album was
released in ten European countries enjoying good commercial success. The same year music
television "MTV Europe"asked Giorgia to present a tv program, but she rejected the proposal.

Girasole (1999)[edit]
After the release of a song from another soundtrack movie called "Il cielo in una stanza" (a cover of
an Italian song by Gino Paoli),in early 1999 she released her 4th studio album called "Girasole" , a
very melodic and pop oriented record that gave her more success, helped by the hit single
"Girasole", one of the top selling Italian songs of the middle of 1999. The same year she toured
internationally alongside jazz legend Herbie Hancock.
2000[edit]
In 2000 Ray Charles invited her to one of his concerts and asked her to sing "Georgia on My Mind"
after she told him that her father named her Giorgia in honour of the song. Giorgia produced
"Girasole" by herself; thanks to this album (one of the most successful of her career) she became
more widely known. The same year she sang a duet with Michael McDonald, in Turin during her
concert and in his concert in Milan. In the middle of 2000, in her Fai Sentire La Tua Voce Tour
2000 she performed a duet with Lionel Richie in All Night Long at the Ericsson Summer Festival.
2000 was also the year of her performance at the Primo Maggio festival that included a reworking of
Prince's Nothing compares to you (2 U).

Senza ali (2001)[edit]
In 2001, she returned to Sanremo Music Festival finishing in second place with the song "Di Sole e
d'Azzurro" written by Zucchero and included in her 5th studio Album "Senza Ali" , which
features Herbie Hancock as special guest in "Il mare sconosciuto" track. Previously Giorgia had
already performed with Hancock during his European tour dedicated to George Gershwin in (1999),
and during a concert at the Royal Festival Hall of London along with Youssou N’Dour in 2000.