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Matteo Brancaleoni
Matteo Brancaleoni was born in Milan in 1981. Young artist with versatile and original personality: actor, singer, journalist, musician. By the time he was 16, he began singing and performing in jazz clubs around Northern Italy.
Finalist for the IMUA "International Massimo Urbani Jazz Music Award" in 2006.
His recordings were also featured in the Radio Festival of Italian Jazz Singers as one of the most talented young italian jazz vocalist. His performances have also been heard on on Radio Palermo in Buenos Aires, RTSI (Swiss Radio), an Punto Radio FM from Pisa, He studied at State Conservatory Of Cuneo Course of Jazz - Afro American Music, singin technique with Danila Satragno, and Berklee Summer School at Umbria Jazz Clinics with Donna McElroy. He is currently attending his last year at Performing Arts University of Turin with theatre specialization. In 2002 he is selected as singer and actor by PromoArt of Montecarlo and takes part in the cast of "Musical Dreams".
He has performed in Italy, USA, France, Australia, Switzerland: Bollate Jazz Fest, Saluzzo Jazz D.O.C., Umbria Jazz, National Museum of Motion Picture, International Book Fair Turin, Not Just Jazz Milano, Italian Jazz SongsFestival Sanremo, Massimo Urbani International Jazz Award, Musicamdo Jazz &Blues, Savona Jazz, New Orleans Cafè, Grand Visconti Hotel Milan, Hyatt Hotel Chicago. In 2002 he is invited by the President of ISA (Instrumen Society of America), to perform in the prestigious ballroom of the McCormick Center of Chicago.
He had, so far, the honour to perfom with some great jazz artists: Franco Cerri (g), Renato Sellani (p),Fabrizio Bosso (tr), Stefano Bagnoli (dr), Gianni Basso (sax), Massimo Moriconi (b),Lino Patruno (g), Riccardo Zegna (p), Massimo Manzi (d), Claudio Filippini (p), Fulvio Albano (sax), Lino Patruno (g), Skip Hadden (dr), Aldo Zunino (b), Wally Allifranchini (s), Luca Velotti (s), Dino Cerruti (b), Jimmy Villotti (g), Pinuccio Calì (b), John Ramsey (dr), John Melnick (p).
He also duetted with the Canadian famous vocalist Michael Bublè for his Italian fan club web site in 2004.
In 2004 he is awarded with the first prize at Burguè Festival, organised by the Fossano city council. In August 2004 he is invited, in Alassio, to open one evening of 51st edition of Miss Muretto. He is a regular guest at "Broadway, Hollywood, Las Vegas", a radio program broadcasted by the first Italian Swiss Radio Channel, RTSI, conducted by the leading anchorman and journalist Giuliano Fournier. In 2002 he attends the Dramatic Art Academy "Sergio Tofano" of Turin, where he studies acting and diction and follows a course of television dubbing.
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Crooner Matteo Brancaleoni's Album No. 1 on Italian Itunes Top Jazz
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Michael Ricci
Matteo Brancaleoni, 28 year-old Italian singer, is No.1 on the Italian Top Jazz Selling album chart on iTunes with his new album Live In Studio" for the second successive week!
The album has been also at No. 23 on the Top 200 Selling Album, and now is still No. 30 above Michael Buble's Crazy Love" (No. 77)!
Matteo Brancaleoni's latest album Live In Studio", hit also the Top 200 album chart, and the Top 10 Jazz Album on iTunes (Italian ...
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Happy Birthday Frank! Tribute to Sinatra at Blue Note Milan
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All About Jazz
Brancaleoni's tribute to Sinatra at the Blue Note Milan New Revelation for Jazz Hot"
After his incredible Sold - Out -Debut at the Blue Note Milan, the italian rising jazz star, Matteo Brancaleoni will be back for a special concert.
The twenty- five-year-old italian crooner will pay is tribute to his idol Frank Sinatra, on thr. 12th December. Francis Albert Sinatra, one of the most iconic entertainers and voices of the 20th century, was born on December 12th ...
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"Just Smile" Crooner Matteo Brancaleoni's Debut Album
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All About Jazz
"Just Smile" is the sensational debut album of the 25 year old singer Matteo Brancaleoni, acclaimed by the critic as a true successor to Frank Sinatra. Produced by Philology Jazz Label and distribuited in Europe, USA and Japan. Here's a new young singer with a fresh take. Although he was born and bred in Italy, Brancaleoni brings a distinctly American jazz flavour. Brancaleoni is accompanied by featuring the great 80 year piano player Renato Sellani, who has played among the ...
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