Laura Pausini and Sheryl Crow have won the Ischia Music Award 2007. David Foster, Laura Pausini's U.S. producer, will present the award to the queen of Italian pop music. Foster himself will receive the William Walton Music & Film Award, together with musicians and Oscar winners Gustavo Santaolalla and Luis Bacalov. "The fifth Ischia Global Film & Music Fest will be dedicated to Luciano Pavarotti,'' announced in Los Angeles Tony Renis, Vice President of the International Art Academy of Ischia, as he presented the program of the event, which will take place from July 9th to 15th at the Regina Isabella Hotel in the town of Lacco Ameno.

Sheryl Crow will inaugurate the musical section of the festival at the port of Ischia on July 10, where she will receive the Ischia Venice Casino Musica Award together with Italian singer Andrea Mingardi. On July 11 at the Hotel San Montano in Lacco Ameno, Pausini and Foster will receive their awards. Foster is a great producer of stars like Barbra Streisand, Celine Dione, and Michael Bublè. On July 12, at the Poseidon gardens of Forio, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu will present Santaollalla ('Babel') with the William Walton Music & Film Award by Kimbo. The greatly awaited concert by Santaolalla's band, the ‘Bajofondo Tango Club’ will follow; on July 13, the last musical appointment will take place at the Hotel Mezzatorre in Forio with Luis Bacalov, honored by the Tourist Board of Ischia and Procida. Procida was the island where part of 'Il Postino' (The Postman, starring Massimo Troisi) for which Bacalov won an Oscar was filmed. All the filmakers will take part in the fourth symposium on film music organized by the Venice Casino.

"After Bocelli, Bacharach and Belafonte this year we just had to honor the great Laura Pausini , winner of a Grammy last year and just back from San Siro in Milan, where she was the first Italian woman to sing in a stadium," said Tony Renis. Sheryl Crow is also an incredibly successful singer; the American singer who has been the emblem of female pop-rock for the past ten years, has sold millions of records, and won nine Grammy awards.

Ischia Global fest is organized by the International Art Academy of Ischia and the Tourist Board of Ischia and Procida, together with the Regional Ministry fro Tourism of the Campania Region in collaboration with Kimbo coffee, Fiuggi mineral water, and the Venice Casino, as well as the participation of Cinecittà Holding, and the Chamber of Commerce of Naples and Medmar.