Laura Pausini (Faenza, Italy, 48 years old) celebrates twice. Paying homage to the 30th anniversary of the start of her musical career – after winning the Sanremo Festival in 1993 with La Soledad – the Italian artist took up a challenge a few weeks ago: she traveled to New York, Madrid and Milan just 30 hours , in which he offered his audience three unique concerts and in which he performed his 30 most famous songs. Speaking of his more personal side, Pausini has finally sealed his relationship with musician Paolo Carta, with whom he has been in a relationship for 18 years, and walked the aisle at a wedding in Rome.
“Abbiamo detto ‘yes’. We said yes. We said ‘yes’. Let’s design ‘Sim’. Nous avons dit ‘Oui”, with this sentence written in five languages and a picture of the link, the Italian artist announced her marriage to Carta on her Instagram account, where she has four million followers. Almost two decades of courtship, a daughter together and many attempts to walk down the aisle, the couple made their relationship official in an intimate and civil ceremony at Rome City Hall, as previously announced by Italian newspaper Il Corriere della It will be him the link was known because it appeared on the list published by the consistory. For the occasion, the Italian has chosen an ivory dress, accompanied by a tuxedo jacket of the same tone and a pearl necklace.
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Pausini and Carta met in 2005 when he was chosen to play guitar on their tour. Although the spark didn’t fly between them at first, they gradually got to know each other and eventually fell in love. It was not an easy beginning for the Italian artist, who found it difficult to develop a relationship with him: her religious ideals prevented her from dating a divorced man who had three children from her previous marriage. “It took me a long time to accept this love. I didn’t want our story to hurt their children,” he said in an interview with Io Donna magazine. The first kiss came days later when the guitarist invited her to a disco, although Pausini didn’t like to party.
In 2012, after seven years of relationship, Carta proposed to Se Fue’s interpreter. But fate prevented them from walking down the aisle: a week later, she found out she was pregnant with their first and only daughter together, Paola, who was born in 2013. “We decided to wait for her to bring us the Rings,” he explained. the artist for Hello! in an interview last year. They tried again in 2021, but the pandemic prevented it. “I’m a big fan of numbers and my favorite is eight. We wanted to get married the year my daughter fulfilled her, in 2021. It coincided with the pandemic and we didn’t want a masked wedding,” he told the same magazine. And the third time was the magic. Although their marriage wasn’t official, the couple already felt married, the La Voz program coach said.
Throughout this 18-year relationship, Pausini and Carta have remained close both personally and at work. They’ve been through difficult times, but always united. Becoming a parent wasn’t easy. They tried for five years, and even the artist came to the conclusion that her dream of being a mother would never come true. She even considered adoption, but it was a very long process. Eventually they decided to start the paperwork for it, but she got pregnant that same year.
Laura Pausini and Paolo Carta at a concert by the Italian artist in Turin on October 26, 2018. Alessandro Bosio (LightRocket via Getty)
Regarding marriage, the artist has stated in more than one interview her refusal to step down the aisle in Italy until same-sex marriages are not legal in her country. “If my best friend wants to get married but can’t because she’s a lesbian, I won’t get married,” she argued in an interview in Mexico. Finally, in May 2016, civil partnership was approved in Italy, but not marriage, which means that couples lack adoption and parental rights.