Umberto Alongi

Umberto Alongi (born July 26, 1976) is a Swiss Italian singer and songwriter.

Umberto Alongi
Umberto Alongi on Radio Fiume Ticino
Background information
Born (1976-07-26) July 26, 1976
Palermo, Italy
GenresPop
Occupation(s)Singer-songwriter
InstrumentsVocals
Years active2000–present
LabelsLatlantide
WebsiteOfficial website

Biography

After living and sharing his time for years between Italy (where he was born) and Switzerland, beginning in 2014 he has been producing two solo albums through the record labels Im Digital, Auditoria Reccords and with Me & U Records and Artists Management based in London.[1] Alongi sings in Italian, Spanish and English and he also plays the guitar.

As of September 2015 he is included in the Swiss pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.[2][3][4][5] In October 2015 he participated in the Ghedi Festival for unreleased songs as the only Swiss male artist in the competition. He reached the semi-finals by beating a selection of 300 artists with the song "Come stai".[6][7]

The song "Come stai" written by Marco Giorgi (Mariadele) was launched on the radio on November 30, 2015.[6][8] The song reached the Italian airplay ranking in 7th place out of the 10 tracks most broad-cast by Italian radio and the 72nd place in the international top 100.[9] The song was produced by the record company Latlantide, the company with which Alongi will produce his new album.[10]

He has collaborated with Valentino Alfano (Mina), Marco Elfo Buongiovanni (Cugini di campagna), Matteo Di Franco (Adriano Celentano, Patty Pravo, Tullio De Piscopo) and Andrea Zuppini (Fabio Concato, Alex Baroni, Fiorella Mannoia).[11][12][13][14]

Umberto Alongi was the founding member of Diesel 23 in Lugano in 2010 with whom he performed for five years until the band broke up in early 2015. With Diesel 23 he released the album Last Chance through the Music-Mad Records label.

He was the founder in 2016 of the charity project "Contesti" in favor of OTAF Foundation with the participation of six other Swiss Italian artists. For this project he composed with Valentino Alfano a song named "Noi siamo qui".[15][16]

As of September 2016 he is included in the Swiss selection for the Eurovision song contest 2017 with a new song "I can just be me". This song is candidate for "Die grosse entscheidungsshow" and it is included on his new album entitled 3 minuti.

A new album titled Illimitatamente was released in November 2017 in Fino Mornasco Italy, played with Massimo Scoca (bass player) Stewart Copeland, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bryan Adams, John Martyn, Level 42, Bob Geldof, Tito Gomez (European Tour), John Davis, Linda Wesley, Paul Jeffrey, Tullio De Piscopo, Gatto Panceri, Enzo Iannacci, Enrico Ruggeri, Lucio Dalla and many more); Giordano Colombo (drums player) (Franco Battiato, Antony and the Johnson, Gianna Nannini, Giorgia, Alessandra Amoroso, Valerio Scanu etc); Antonio "Aki" Chindamo (Caterina Valente, Rockets, Marco Ferradini, Riccardo Fogli, Paola Turci, Andrea Braido); Andrea Gentile (guitar player) (Raphael Gualazzi, Giovanni Caccamo, Deborah Iurato, Ermal Meta, Benji e Fede, Marco Carta, Simone Tomassini, Paolo Meneguzzi, Niccolò Agliardi).[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

The last single "Pura Follia" was launched on the radio on June 18, 2018.[24] The song reached the Italian airplay ranking in 1st place out of the 10 tracks most broad-cast by Italian radio.[25]

Collaborations
  • Gaetano Capitano
  • Antony Franceschi
  • Marco Giorgi
  • Valentino Alfano
  • Marco Elfo Buongiovanni
  • Andrea Zuppini
  • Matteo Di Franco

Selected discography

Studio albums

Singles
  • Come il respiro – (Tunecore) – 2015
  • Con un altro – (Me&U Records) – 2015
  • Come stai – (Latlantide) – 2015
  • Che Natale è – (Me&U Records) – 2015
  • Lei non-c'è più (Latlantide) – 2016
  • 3 minuti – (Me&U Records – iM Digital) – 2016
  • Ragazzi Italiani – (Auditoria Records) – 2017
  • Tempo ne avrò – (Me&U Records – Auditoria Records) – 2017
  • Il futuro si è perso – (Me&U Records – Sony Music Publishing) – 2018
  • Pura Follia – (Me&U Records) – 2018

Featuring
  • I miss you – Diesel'23 – 2015
  • Someone to love – Diesel'23 – 2015
  • Noi siamo qui – Contesti – (Me&U Records) – 2016
  • Oh Anima feat. Valentino Alfano – (Auditoria Records) – 2017[26]

Spanish-language singles
  • Abrazame – 2014
  • Como estas – 2015

Appearances
  • Eurovision Song Contest – September 2015 – Switzerland Pre-selection
  • Eurovision Song Contest – September 2016 – Switzerland Pre-selection
  • Ghedi Festival – November 2015 – Semi-finalist

References
  1. "Me&U Artists Management". Me&U Artists Management. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  2. "Come stai von Umberto Alongi". Eurovision Song Contest. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  3. "Umberto Alongi". Eurovisionews. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  4. "J-4 POUR L'ENVOI DES CHANSONS DE LA SELECTION SUISSE EUROVISION 2016 (SRF/RTR) – www.planeteurovision.ch". www.planeteurovision.ch. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  5. scrive, Gino Pianista. "Eurovision 2016, due eurostars nella selezione della svizzera tedesca". Eurofestival NEWS. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  6. "UMBERTO ALONGI "Come stai" | (Radio Date: November 30, 2015)". radiodate.it. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  7. "Tutto Disco: "Come stai", il nuovo singolo di Umberto Alongi". tuttodisco.blogspot.ch. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
  8. "Nuova musica in radio dal 27 novembre: ecco i singoli di LAURA PAUSINI, J-AX, LAURA BONO, ERMAL META, DANIELE GROFF, PAOLO VALLESI e non solo » » aLLMusicItalia". www.allmusicitalia.it (in Italian). Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  9. "UMBERTO ALONGI/RADIOAIRPLAY.FM". radioairplay.fm. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  10. "Vip and Gossip – Pianeta donna – Umberto Alongi". vipegossip.pianetadonna.it. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  11. Lei non c'è piú – Radio date
  12. La musica che gira intorno
  13. De Piscopo – Napoli torna centrale
  14. Lei non c'è piu' – new single performed by Umberto Alongi
  15. "Ticinonline – "Contesti", quando la musica tende la mano". www.tio.ch. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  16. "laRegione – Sette voci per un 'Contesti'". www.laregione.ch. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  17. Auditoria. "Umberto Alongi releases second album '3 minuti'". 2017 Auditoria. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  18. "Planeteurovision – Switzerland – Umberto Alongi". planeteurovision.ch. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
  19. discogs. "Umberto Alongi Illimitatamente". 2017 Discogs. Retrieved December 4, 2017.
  20. "Allmusic news – 3 minuti". allmusicnews.altervista.org. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  21. "Umberto Alongi in gara all' Eurovision Song Contest 2017 con "3 minuti"". comunicatinazionali.it. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  22. "Umberto Alongi in gara all' Eurovision Song Contest 2017 con "3 minuti (I can just be me)"". tuttodisco.blogspot.ch. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  23. "Fare Music – WebMagazine – Intervista Umberto Alongi". faremusic.it. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
  24. "Umberto Alongi – Pura follia (Radio Date: 18-06-2018) – EarOne » EarOne". www.earone.it (in Italian). Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  25. "Classifica Emergenti – 27 agosto- 2018". classificaindipendentiweb.eu. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  26. "Oh Anima feat. Valentino Alfano – Umberto Alongi". discogs.com. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
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