Italy's most important music event of the year begins tomorrow: the Festival della Canzone Italiana, better known as Festival di Sanremo.
Therefore, our Word of the Week is CANZONE - song.
The plural is canzoni - songs.
Cantante is singer - cantare is to sing.
Listen to Max Pezzali of 883 sing a famous 1995 hit, Una canzone d'amore (A love song):