Lady Violet

For Violet Crawley, see List of Downton Abbey characters § Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham. For the English socialite, see Lady Violet Manners.

Lady Violet (born Francesca Messina, 10 September 1972, Florence, Italy) is an Italian musician. Francesca's musical career started in the 90's as a singer in the Italian vocal ensemble Jubilee Shouters by which she recorded the album Black & Blue under the Sensible Records (3) label. In the meantime she collaborated with other labels as a vocalist for a few dance projects, such as the New Music International label being both vocalist and frontwoman for the Euro House/Italodance project Lady Violet.

Lady Violet
Born	Francesca Messina (1972-09-10) 10 September 1972 (age 53) Florence, Italy
Genres	Italodance, Eurohouse
Occupation(s)	Singer, dancer
Years active	1996–2004
Labels	Edel Records, New Music International
Website	[1]

Lady Violet released her first single, "Inside to Outside", with success in Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, France, and the United Kingdom. The song is a cover song first published by Limahl in 1986. The second single, "Beautiful World", peaked at No. 19 on the Italian singles chart.

Discography

Singles

Single	Year	Peak chart positions							Album
		ITA [2]	EUR	FRA [3]	BEL (Vl) [4]	BEL (Wa) [5]	NOR [6]	SWE [7]
"Inside To Outside"	1999	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Singles only
"Inside To Outside" (reissue)	2000	—	71	32	22	28	19	11
"Beautiful World"		19	—	51	—	—	—	—
"Calling Your Name / Lovin' You Baby"	2001	21	—	—	—	—	—	—
"No Way No Time"		40	—	—	—	—	—	—
"In Your Mind"	2002	—	—	—	—	—	—	—