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Raphael Gualazzi nasce a
Urbino l’11 novembre 1981.
Intraprende gli studi di pianoforte al Conservatorio Rossini
di Pesaro ed estende la sua
ricerca musicale anche nel
campo del Jazz, del Blues e
della Fusion. Nel 2009 la sua
interpretazione di Don’t Stop
viene scelta come colonna
sonora dello spot televisivo di
Eni. Il 2011 lo vede trionfare
al Festival di Sanremo con il
brano Follia D’Amore, dove
si aggiudica, oltre al primo
posto della categoria Giovani,
il Premio della Critica Mia
Martini, il premio della Sala
Stampa Radio e Tv, il Premio
Assomusica per la migliore
esibizione live e il Premio
Siae come miglior compositore dell’anno. La successiva
partecipazione all’Eurovision
Song Contest a Düsseldorf
dove gli fa conquistare un secondo posto in classifica e il
primo premio della giuria tecnica. Nel giugno 2012 Sugar
sigla un accordo in esclusiva
mondiale con la prestigiosa
etichetta Blue Note/Emi Music France: Gualazzi comincia
così a farsi strada anche all’estero grazie al brano Reality
And Fantasy, nella versione
remix di Gilles Peterson. Nel
2013 esce il secondo album
Happy Mistake. In quell’anno
Gualazzi torna a calcare il
palco del Festival di Sanremo,
questa volta nella categoria
Big, con i brani Sai e Senza
Ritegno. Nell’autunno 2013
viene scelto da Fabio Fazio
per curare la colonna sonora
dell’undicesima edizione di
‘Che tempo che fa’.
Raphael Gualazzi was born in Urbino on 11
November 1981. He studied piano at Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro and his musical research
also embraces Jazz, Blues and Fusion. In 2009 his
interpretation of Don’t Stop was chosen as the
soundtrack of Eni’s commercial. In 2011 he triumphed at the Sanremo Festival with the song Follia
D’Amore and he won, in addition to ranking first
in the Young category, the Critics’ Award Mia
Martini, the Radio and TV Press-room Award,
Assomusica Award for the best live performance
and Siae Award for the best composer of the
year. He then participated in the Eurovision Song
Contest in Düsseldorf, where he came in second
and bagged the technical jury’s prize. In June
2012, Sugar signed an exclusive worldwide agreement with the prestigious label Blue Note/Emi
Music France: Gualazzi started making his way
abroad thanks to the song Reality And Fantasy,
in the remix version by Gilles Peterson. In 2013 he
released his second album, Happy Mistake. In the
same year, Gualazzi reappeared on the stage of
the Sanremo Festival, this time in the main competition, with the pieces Sai and Senza Ritegno.
In autumn 2013 Fabio Fazio entrusted him with
the theme of the eleventh season of his show ‘Che
tempo che fa’.
occur in the studio can originate interesting artistic
ideas.
Music and films. What connects these two worlds?
Thanks to the many synchs made for commercials
with some of my pieces and the experience acquired
studying the relationship between music and cinema,
I have had the opportunity to develop a different
aspect of composition, trying my hand at real
soundtracks for films, at the beginning with singles,
such as Follia d’Amore inserted in the soundtrack of
Manuale d’Amore 3 by Veronesi with Monica Bellucci
and Robert De Niro, and then complete soundtracks,
as in the motion picture Un Ragazzo d’Oro by Pupi
Avati with Sharon Stone and Riccardo Scamarcio, of
which I have followed all the musical development.
These are all facets of creativity and composition
which can adapt to different languages, related to
cinema and advertising, in synergy with images.
How would you describe yourself as an artist and as
a person?
I have defined myself as an ‘artisan of music’ since
the beginning, because of my approach which I
would like to keep in this world.
© Flavio&Frank
Jazz, blues, fusion: how would you define your
music?
I consider jazz as the matrix of all modern kinds
of music. I do a contamination of different artistic
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