- Speaks Italian, Spanish, English and Brazilian Portuguese.
- She wrote her song "Jenny", which is about a guardian angel, after watching City of Angels (1998) with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.
- She recorded a duet with Gilberto Gil included in her album "The best Of Laura Pausini", the song "Cuando se ama"
- She recorded a duet with Spanish singer José 'El Francés', a song titled "Dime" which is included in her album "Lo mejor de Laura Pausini" (Spanish version)
- Began a new World tour, starting in Italy and across Europe, then to North America, South America and Australia. (May 2009)
- Studied English in California
- She won the Italian Musical Festival of San Remo in 1993 with the song "La Solitudine". Then, her first album was published.
- Laura and Italian actresses Alessia Marcuzzi and Vittoria Belvedere are close friends.
- Announced she will wed fiancé Paolo Carta in ten months (November 2008).
- First child, a girl named Paola Carta, was born on February 8, 2013. Father is Paolo Carta.
- Making promo in Spain of her new album, "Yo canto". (November 2006)
- As of 2017, Pausini has released twelve studio albums, two international greatest hits albums and two compilation albums for the Hispanic and Anglophone market only, respectively.
- She has been honoured as a Commander Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and as a World Ambassador of Emilia Romagna.
- In July 2021, Pausini announced she has been working on a film since February 2020. The film, directed by Ivan Cotroneo and set to be released on Amazon Prime Video in 2022, is based on an idea by Pausini herself, and will be titled Laura Pausini - Piacere di conoscerti.
- Throughout her career, she has won numerous music awards in Italy and internationally. She has earned the first and third place at the Sanremo Music Festival, two "Lunezia Awards", eighteen Wind Music Awards, four awards at the Festivalbar, seven Telegatti, and an MTV Italian Music Award.
- In 2014 FIMI certified Pausini's sales of more than 75 million records with a FIMI Icon Award, making her the fourth best-selling female artist in Latin music, and the best-selling female non-Spanish speaking Latin music artist.
- As a child, she was encouraged by her father to join him during his performances in local piano bars.
- Her self titled debut album was released in Italy on 23 April 1993 and later became an international success, selling two million copies worldwide.
- Starting from her 1996's album Le cose che vivi / Las cosas que vives, Pausini has also co-written most of her songs.
- In 2006, she also became the first Italian female artist to win a Grammy Award.
- Her first live performance was on 16 May 1985, when she sang together with her father in a restaurant in Bologna.
- In 2021, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song with "Io sì (Seen)" from the film The Life Ahead. The single also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, making it the first Italian-language song to win the award.
- Laura Pausini is described as a mezzo-soprano with a classic and powerful voice.
- Pausini left her hometown in 1995, when she moved to Milan with her partner, manager and producer Alfredo Cerruti Jr.
- Pausini appeared as a coach on both the Mexican and Spanish versions of international reality television singing competition franchise The Voice.
- Internationally, she has won four awards at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival, four Lo Nuestro Awards, four Latin Grammy Awards, a Billboard Latin Music Award, six World Music Awards, and has received a nomination at the Emmy Awards.
- In 2006, her record Io canto was the best-selling album of the year in Italy.
- During 1994, she released her first Spanish-language album, Laura Pausini, composed of ten adapted songs originally included in her previous works. The album was certified diamond by the Association of Phonographic and Videographic of Spain, making her the first non-Spanish artist to sell more than one million copies in Spain.
- In 1987 she recorded her first demo album, produced by her father and released to promote her live shows. Titled I sogni di Laura, it consisted of eight covers and five new songs.
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