Francesca Battistelli

Francesca Battistelli Artistfacts

  • May 18, 1985
  • The Christian singer-songwriter was born in New York City. She knew she wanted to be a performer at age six when she saw a Broadway production of The Secret Garden.
  • She started her music career with Bella, an all-girl pop group from Orlando, Florida, when she was 17.
  • In a Songfacts interview, she named Jon Foreman, Nichole Nordeman, John Mayer, and Stevie Wonder as her songwriting influences.
  • She told Songfacts that she's a recovering perfectionist: "I'm trying to overcome this idea of perfectionism and trying to do things with excellence but not hold myself to impossible standards. You tend to not get anything done when you have do it perfectly, because we're not perfect."
  • She won the Dove Awards for Artist of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year in 2011.
  • She has a daughter, Audrey Jane, and a son, Matthew Elijah, with her percussionist husband, Matthew Goodwin.

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