Italian-Australian singer-songwriter and producer Gisella Cozzo began studying singing and acting at the age of 9 and rose to prominence in the early eighties when she won Australia’s longest-running talent show, “Young Talent Time.” At the tender age of sixteen she toured with renowned Italian singers and performed live as their support act around Australia, artists such as Eros Ramazzotti, Pupo, Marcella Bella, Fiordaliso, Toto Cutugno, Mario Merola, and many others.

Gisella was then asked to tour in Italy with various artists. Milan, however, ‘the music capital of Italy,’ opened up many remarkable doors for her debut recording career. Her debut single, “Get Up,” is awarded “first prize” at the Rino Gaetano Song Festival “New Generation 88” by the iconic magazine Cioè. Her debut album was published in 1991 and entitled with the stage name “GISA”; all songs were written entirely in English by the artist herself. Producers of the caliber of Fratelli La Bionda and Silvio Amato were just a few of Gisella’s first producers and publishers.

In 1991 Gisella was then a finalist at the ‘Festival di Castrocaro,’ a famous song festival founded for upcoming singers.

In the 1990s, Gisella began working as a songwriter and vocalist for various dance labels, contributing numerous hits to the Italo-dance scene over more than a decade. During this highly creative period, she was also commissioned to write and perform music for cinema and television soundtracks.

Throughout her career, she has collaborated with numerous artists, including Jovanotti, Gianluca Grignani, Al Bano, Fred Bongusto, Laura Pausini, Anna Oxa, Franco Fasano, Piero Cassano, and many others.

She has toured the world representing Italy at two European festivals: the “Golden Stage” in Romania and the “Golden Orpheus” in Bulgaria, sharing the stage with international artists such as Dionne Warwick, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kylie Minogue, and many others.

She has released 10 albums, 2 EPs, and 40 singles.

She is considered the “Queen of Jingle” (Regina degli Spot) in Italian for having created and performed famous advertising jingles for major national and international brands, including Coppa del Nonno, Chanteclair, Coca-Cola, Saratoga, Levi’s, Fiat, and many others. She was also chosen by Yoko Ono to perform “Power to the People” by John Lennon for an Enel commercial.

In 2024, Gisella toured Italy with the Joy – Summer Tour 2024, celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Joy,” the famous soundtrack of the Coppa del Nonno commercial, written and performed by the artist, which has become one of the longest-running jingles in Italian advertising history.

In 2025, Gisella was asked by the brand “Coppa del nonno” to create a ‘pop-rock’ remake for the Coppa del Nonno radio commercial to mark the brand’s 70th anniversary.

Alongside her artistic activity, Gisella Cozzo is also the creator and host of musical events.

In recent years she has created the acclaimed event “Spot Show – la mia vita in uno spot” and “Le Dive del pop” (Pop Divas) and created “La Bionda & friends,” a tribute to the late Carmelo La Bionda, brother of the famous italo-dance duo “Fratelli la Bionda.”

In 2024 and 2025 Gisella Cozzo, from an original idea, brings “Zecchino d’Oro in Melbourne” to Australia for the very first time. A unique format designed for Australian primary schools to preserve and promote Italian language and culture through the musical gems of the “Zecchino d’Oro.” An event presented during the Melbourne Italian Festa & Expo, attracting over 100,000 attendees.

She is also co-host, in English, of Sanremo Senior, the international talent show for “over 34s” held at the municipality of the Casino of Sanremo, the city of flowers and music.

She has also participated as a judge for Sanremo Junior and the GEF, Festival of Creativity in Schools, prestigious international competitions involving talents from 25 countries, held in March 2025 on the stage of the Teatro Ariston, where Gisella presented awards to some of the winners.

For 2026, Gisella has a major and important project underway.

After “Best Thing,” her first original song of the year written and performed by the artist, she returns with a new and exciting interpretation of an international classic: “The Greatest Love of All.” She expresses immense gratitude for this song, which marked her debut in the music industry in the 1980s, when she won, at just sixteen, Australia’s longest-running television talent show, “Young Talent Time.”

To celebrate this anniversary, the artist has planned numerous surprises: she will release a new single every month, in English, Italian, Neapolitan, and, for the first time, Spanish. There will also be collaborations with important Italian composers and artists, reinterpreting major hits from the Italian music scene.

The project will culminate at the end of the year with the release of the new awaited album “Songwriters – Cantautori.”