High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valentina Giovagnini (6 April 1980 2 January 2009) was an Italian pop singer, active between 2001 and 2009. She was born in Arezzo, Italy. She made her first appearance at the Sanremo Music Festival (Youth Section) in 2002, coming second with the song "Il passo silenzioso della neve". Her first solo album, "Creatura nuda" (Nude Creature), uses unusual typical Celtic instruments: whistle, musette, uilleann pipes and others. It was released in March 2002. She died at the age of 28 in Siena, Italy due to a car accident.