Madame
Artist: Madame
Real Name: Francesca Calearo
Born: 16 January 2002, Creazzo
Roots: Creazzo, Veneto
Active since: 2018
Style: Rap, alternative pop and R&B
Debut album: MADAME (2021) ↗
Biography
Madame has developed one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Italian music, combining rap with melodic singing, an expressive vocal delivery and a strong interest in the possibilities of language. Born Francesca Calearo on 16 January 2002 in Creazzo, in the province of Vicenza, she emerged while still a teenager. Her songs explore desire, vulnerability, identity and difficult relationships, often moving between direct confession and more imaginative storytelling. Changes of rhythm, unusual phrasing and the sound of individual words are central to her style.
She began releasing music in 2018, attracting attention with “Sciccherie”, a song that introduced her fluid approach to rap and melody. Signing with Sugar Music helped bring her work to a wider audience, while collaborations connected her with established figures in the rap scene. Her breakthrough reached a national stage at the 2021 Sanremo Festival, where she performed “VOCE”. The song explored recognition and the need to be heard, presenting a young artist whose musical personality was already clearly defined.
Her debut album, MADAME, followed in 2021, bringing together intimate writing and a broad range of musical collaborators. Guests included Fabri Fibra, Guè, Ernia and, on the expanded edition, Sfera Ebbasta. Despite the prominent guests, the record remained centred on her own voice and perspective. That year she received two Targhe Tenco awards: Best Debut Album for MADAME and Best Song for “VOCE”, recognising both her first full-length project and her songwriting.
In 2023 she returned to Sanremo with “IL BENE NEL MALE”, which became part of her second album, L’AMORE. The record examined love through attraction, obsession, tenderness and unequal relationships, giving different characters and perspectives space within its songs. Its writing and vocal performances strengthened her position as an artist able to move between rap, pop and contemporary songwriting. Her growing live audience also brought her to Milan’s Forum di Assago, an important step in her development as a headline performer.
Alongside her own releases, Madame became an increasingly prominent collaborator and songwriter. She appeared with Marracash on “MADAME – L’anima” and with Tedua on “Beatrice”, while also contributing to the writing of Angelina Mango’s “La noia”, the winning song at Sanremo 2024. These projects showed how her approach could work within other artists’ music while retaining its recognisable character.
Her third album, DISINCANTO, arrived in 2026, continuing her exploration of emotional contradictions, self-examination and provocative storytelling. Collaborations included Marracash and Nerissima Serpe, maintaining her connection with rap while allowing room for different musical directions. Across her work, the link between words and performance remains essential: a change in cadence, tone or emphasis can be as revealing as the lyric itself.
Albums
Released in March 2021, MADAME is Madame’s debut studio album, introducing her distinctive blend of rap, melodic singing and unconventional phrasing across 16 tracks. It arrived shortly after her appearance at Sanremo with “VOCE”, bringing her intimate writing and expressive delivery to a much wider audience. Desire, insecurity, identity and the need for connection run through a record that allows contradictory feelings to sit alongside one another.
“VOCE” provides one of its emotional centres, while songs such as “IL MIO AMICO”, featuring Fabri Fibra, and “DIMMI ORA”, with Guè, connect her emerging voice with established figures in rap. Ernia appears on “NUDA”, while other guests include Rkomi, Carl Brave, BLANCO and Gaia. The collaborations introduce different tones and perspectives, with Madame’s vocal personality holding the album together.
Her delivery gives the songs much of their character. She stretches syllables, shifts accents and moves between clipped verses and more open melodies, making the sound of the words part of their emotional meaning. Tracks such as “CLITO” and “VERGOGNA” show her willingness to approach personal subjects directly, with performances that move between vulnerability and defiance.
An expanded edition followed in June 2021, adding “MAREA” and “TU MI HAI CAPITO”, featuring Sfera Ebbasta, and bringing the album to 18 tracks. This is the edition included in the Spotify player. MADAME also received the Targa Tenco for Best Debut Album, while “VOCE” won Best Song, marking a debut recognised for both its musical identity and its songwriting.
Released on 31 March 2023, L’AMORE is Madame’s second studio album. Across 15 tracks, she examines love through desire, attachment, jealousy and loss, building a collection in which relationships can be tender, consuming or deeply unequal. The writing moves between personal reflection and stories told through different characters, giving the album a broader perspective than a straightforward account of her own experiences.
“IL BENE NEL MALE”, presented at Sanremo 2023, captures the emotional ambiguity running through the record. “QUANTO FORTE TI PENSAVO” approaches longing with a more immediate melodic pull, while “NIMPHA – La storia di una ninfomane” and “L’ONDA – La morte del marinaio” give greater space to storytelling. These different approaches allow Madame to explore the distance between what people want from love and what they actually experience.
Unlike her debut, L’AMORE contains no featured vocal guests, placing the focus entirely on Madame’s writing and performance. The production moves between electronic rhythms, atmospheric arrangements and more exposed passages, leaving room for her voice to change character. She switches from rhythmic, conversational lines to sustained melodies, using those shifts to convey intimacy, frustration and uncertainty.
The album shows a growing confidence in shaping a complete project around a shared subject. Songs such as “RESPIRARE”, “PER IL TUO BENE” and “AVATAR – L’amore non esiste” approach its central theme from different angles, avoiding a single reassuring definition of love. The result is a more concentrated and cohesive second album, expanding the expressive range introduced on MADAME while giving her storytelling a stronger role.
Released in April 2026, DISINCANTO is Madame’s third studio album, arriving three years after L’AMORE. The original 14-track record brings desire, disappointment, envy and self-questioning into a more confrontational setting. Its songs move between examining her own behaviour and challenging the expectations placed on her, with moments of vulnerability interrupting the more provocative passages.
The title track introduces the album’s questioning mood, while “COME STAI?” and “VOLEVO CAPIRE”, featuring Marracash, give space to uncertainty and the search for understanding. “INVIDIOSA”, “BESTIA” and “LA PERSONA PEGGIORE DEL MONDO” suggest a harsher vocabulary of self-examination. Across these different approaches, Madame uses changes in cadence and vocal emphasis to move between confidence, frustration and emotional exposure.
Produced by Bias, the album gives her rhythmic delivery a prominent role while retaining the melodic flexibility heard on her earlier records. “OK” and “ROSSO COME IL FANGO” were among the singles that introduced the project. “PUTTANA SVIZZERA”, featuring Nerissima Serpe, Papa V and 6occia, brings several contrasting voices together, adding a collective rap performance to an album otherwise largely centred on Madame herself.
A later edition added “M’AMA NON M’AMA”, bringing the tracklist to 15 songs; this is the version included in the Spotify player. DISINCANTO continues the exploration of intimacy heard on L’AMORE, with greater emphasis on doubt, conflict and the uncomfortable process of examining oneself. Its character comes from the tension between forceful delivery and lyrics that leave room for uncertainty.
Madame
Artist: Madame
Real Name: Francesca Calearo
Born: 16 January 2002, Creazzo
Roots: Creazzo, Veneto
Active since: 2018
Style: Rap, alternative pop and R&B
Debut album: MADAME (2021) ↗
Biography
Madame has developed one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Italian music, combining rap with melodic singing, an expressive vocal delivery and a strong interest in the possibilities of language. Born Francesca Calearo on 16 January 2002 in Creazzo, in the province of Vicenza, she emerged while still a teenager. Her songs explore desire, vulnerability, identity and difficult relationships, often moving between direct confession and more imaginative storytelling. Changes of rhythm, unusual phrasing and the sound of individual words are central to her style.
She began releasing music in 2018, attracting attention with “Sciccherie”, a song that introduced her fluid approach to rap and melody. Signing with Sugar Music helped bring her work to a wider audience, while collaborations connected her with established figures in the rap scene. Her breakthrough reached a national stage at the 2021 Sanremo Festival, where she performed “VOCE”. The song explored recognition and the need to be heard, presenting a young artist whose musical personality was already clearly defined.
Her debut album, MADAME, followed in 2021, bringing together intimate writing and a broad range of musical collaborators. Guests included Fabri Fibra, Guè, Ernia and, on the expanded edition, Sfera Ebbasta. Despite the prominent guests, the record remained centred on her own voice and perspective. That year she received two Targhe Tenco awards: Best Debut Album for MADAME and Best Song for “VOCE”, recognising both her first full-length project and her songwriting.
In 2023 she returned to Sanremo with “IL BENE NEL MALE”, which became part of her second album, L’AMORE. The record examined love through attraction, obsession, tenderness and unequal relationships, giving different characters and perspectives space within its songs. Its writing and vocal performances strengthened her position as an artist able to move between rap, pop and contemporary songwriting. Her growing live audience also brought her to Milan’s Forum di Assago, an important step in her development as a headline performer.
Alongside her own releases, Madame became an increasingly prominent collaborator and songwriter. She appeared with Marracash on “MADAME – L’anima” and with Tedua on “Beatrice”, while also contributing to the writing of Angelina Mango’s “La noia”, the winning song at Sanremo 2024. These projects showed how her approach could work within other artists’ music while retaining its recognisable character.
Her third album, DISINCANTO, arrived in 2026, continuing her exploration of emotional contradictions, self-examination and provocative storytelling. Collaborations included Marracash and Nerissima Serpe, maintaining her connection with rap while allowing room for different musical directions. Across her work, the link between words and performance remains essential: a change in cadence, tone or emphasis can be as revealing as the lyric itself.
Albums
Released in March 2021, MADAME is Madame’s debut studio album, introducing her distinctive blend of rap, melodic singing and unconventional phrasing across 16 tracks. It arrived shortly after her appearance at Sanremo with “VOCE”, bringing her intimate writing and expressive delivery to a much wider audience. Desire, insecurity, identity and the need for connection run through a record that allows contradictory feelings to sit alongside one another.
“VOCE” provides one of its emotional centres, while songs such as “IL MIO AMICO”, featuring Fabri Fibra, and “DIMMI ORA”, with Guè, connect her emerging voice with established figures in rap. Ernia appears on “NUDA”, while other guests include Rkomi, Carl Brave, BLANCO and Gaia. The collaborations introduce different tones and perspectives, with Madame’s vocal personality holding the album together.
Her delivery gives the songs much of their character. She stretches syllables, shifts accents and moves between clipped verses and more open melodies, making the sound of the words part of their emotional meaning. Tracks such as “CLITO” and “VERGOGNA” show her willingness to approach personal subjects directly, with performances that move between vulnerability and defiance.
An expanded edition followed in June 2021, adding “MAREA” and “TU MI HAI CAPITO”, featuring Sfera Ebbasta, and bringing the album to 18 tracks. This is the edition included in the Spotify player. MADAME also received the Targa Tenco for Best Debut Album, while “VOCE” won Best Song, marking a debut recognised for both its musical identity and its songwriting.
Released on 31 March 2023, L’AMORE is Madame’s second studio album. Across 15 tracks, she examines love through desire, attachment, jealousy and loss, building a collection in which relationships can be tender, consuming or deeply unequal. The writing moves between personal reflection and stories told through different characters, giving the album a broader perspective than a straightforward account of her own experiences.
“IL BENE NEL MALE”, presented at Sanremo 2023, captures the emotional ambiguity running through the record. “QUANTO FORTE TI PENSAVO” approaches longing with a more immediate melodic pull, while “NIMPHA – La storia di una ninfomane” and “L’ONDA – La morte del marinaio” give greater space to storytelling. These different approaches allow Madame to explore the distance between what people want from love and what they actually experience.
Unlike her debut, L’AMORE contains no featured vocal guests, placing the focus entirely on Madame’s writing and performance. The production moves between electronic rhythms, atmospheric arrangements and more exposed passages, leaving room for her voice to change character. She switches from rhythmic, conversational lines to sustained melodies, using those shifts to convey intimacy, frustration and uncertainty.
The album shows a growing confidence in shaping a complete project around a shared subject. Songs such as “RESPIRARE”, “PER IL TUO BENE” and “AVATAR – L’amore non esiste” approach its central theme from different angles, avoiding a single reassuring definition of love. The result is a more concentrated and cohesive second album, expanding the expressive range introduced on MADAME while giving her storytelling a stronger role.
Released in April 2026, DISINCANTO is Madame’s third studio album, arriving three years after L’AMORE. The original 14-track record brings desire, disappointment, envy and self-questioning into a more confrontational setting. Its songs move between examining her own behaviour and challenging the expectations placed on her, with moments of vulnerability interrupting the more provocative passages.
The title track introduces the album’s questioning mood, while “COME STAI?” and “VOLEVO CAPIRE”, featuring Marracash, give space to uncertainty and the search for understanding. “INVIDIOSA”, “BESTIA” and “LA PERSONA PEGGIORE DEL MONDO” suggest a harsher vocabulary of self-examination. Across these different approaches, Madame uses changes in cadence and vocal emphasis to move between confidence, frustration and emotional exposure.
Produced by Bias, the album gives her rhythmic delivery a prominent role while retaining the melodic flexibility heard on her earlier records. “OK” and “ROSSO COME IL FANGO” were among the singles that introduced the project. “PUTTANA SVIZZERA”, featuring Nerissima Serpe, Papa V and 6occia, brings several contrasting voices together, adding a collective rap performance to an album otherwise largely centred on Madame herself.
A later edition added “M’AMA NON M’AMA”, bringing the tracklist to 15 songs; this is the version included in the Spotify player. DISINCANTO continues the exploration of intimacy heard on L’AMORE, with greater emphasis on doubt, conflict and the uncomfortable process of examining oneself. Its character comes from the tension between forceful delivery and lyrics that leave room for uncertainty.