Singer-songwriter & Musical Director
Gisella Cozzo
Sat, 17 Oct, 11:30 am · Upstairs Stage
Gisella Cozzo is an Italian-Australian singer, songwriter and producer whose career bridges two countries. Born in Melbourne, she started studying singing and acting at nine and won Young Talent Time — Australia's longest-running talent show — at sixteen, going on to open in Australia for Eros Ramazzotti, Pupo, Marcella Bella and Toto Cutugno.
She made her Italian recording debut in 1988, winning the Rino Gaetano Festival with her first single "Get Up", released her debut album "Gisa" in 1990 and was a finalist at Festival di Castrocaro in 1991. Ten albums, two EPs and around forty singles have followed, alongside collaborations with Jovanotti, Laura Pausini, Al Bano and Franco Fasano.
In Italy she is known as the "Regina degli spot" — the queen of the advertising jingle — for campaigns including Coca-Cola, Chanteclair, Levi's, Fiat and Coppa del Nonno, whose theme "Joy" became one of the longest-running jingles in Italian advertising and turned thirty in 2024. She was hand-picked by Yoko Ono to perform "Power to the People" for an Enel commercial.
Gisella is the creator of Zecchino d'Oro in Melbourne, which brought the Italian children's song competition to Victorian primary schools and became one of the Festa's signature family events.
Appearing in
Piccole Voci Geniali - CO.AS.IT. Girotondo
Sat, 17 Oct, 11:30 am · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - CO.AS.IT. Doposcuola (Foundation – Grade 2)
Sat, 17 Oct, 11:45 am · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Brunswick North PS
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:00 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - St Martin of Tours
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:15 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Brunswick East PS
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:30 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Pascoe Vale PS
Sat, 17 Oct, 12:45 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Footscray PS
Sat, 17 Oct, 1:00 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Brunswick Kinder
Sun, 18 Oct, 11:30 am · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - CO.AS.IT. Doposcuola (Grades 3–6)
Sun, 18 Oct, 11:45 am · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Brunswick South PS
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:00 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Rowville PS
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:15 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - St Louis de Montfort
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:30 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Kew East PS
Sun, 18 Oct, 12:45 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Piccole Voci Geniali - Princes Hill
Sun, 18 Oct, 1:00 pm · Upstairs Stage
Choirs from primary schools across Victoria are invited to experience Italian through music, creativity, and live performance, combining language learning with artistic expression in an engaging and accessible way. Italian-Australian singer Gisella Cozzo will be the "madrina" of the show, presenting the choirs and assisting the kids in their performance
Women in Music - Gisella Cozzo
Sun, 18 Oct, 3:00 pm · Verrocchi Stage
FranGisella Cozzo is an acclaimed Australian-Italian singer, songwriter, and producer who has built a prolific career bridging Melbourne and Milan. Famously dubbed the "Queen of Jingles" (La Regina degli Spot) in Italy, her voice has defined some of the country's most memorable television commercial soundtracks since the 1990s.