Saturday, September 29

Patrizio Buanne.- Who? Italian Heart Throb Crooner of Italy's Songs in English

The ANNOTICO Report

Patrizio Buanne is a soft-spoken and an immense charmer with stunning good looks, and has been described as a man women want and men want to be like.

Buanne shares his culture through passionate and beautiful Italian songbook standards. He chooses timeless songs, but those that speaks to life today.

Buanne's debut album, The Italian, was released in 2005 It is composed of eleven tracks of traditional Italian songs.The Italian

reached #10 on the Pop chart in the United Kingdom and also charted in

Australia

where it was certified as double Platinum.

As of May 2007,The Italian has recently been released in the USA. His second album Forever Begins Tonight was released in July 2006.

Patrizio sings in English, Italian and Spanish, but he speaks six languages.English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Polish and can say a few words in many other tongues

Style, sophistication, elegance...where can we find that old-school cool in our consumer culture of instantly disposable celebrity? Time to meet Patrizio Buanne. Tall, dark and handsome, perfectly groomed and impeccably dressed, the clean cut Italian with the rich baritone voice is an enigma.

Inspired by the singers of yesteryear, Patrizio harks back to a time when a man would not dream of singing on stage in anything less than a suit, shoes, polished, clean-shaven, hair neatly brushed, with a dab of cologne behind the ears. Nothing strange about that, you might say. Except that Patrizio is only 26 years old - and hopelessly devoted to his art - romantic crooning.

Dean Martin, Paul Anka, Tom Jones, along with the traditional Italian singers - these are the men he idolizes. Unfashionable? Perhaps, on first impression. But as they say: style is temporary and class is permanent. "Less is more - those artists perform great melodies - it's so fantastic to go onstage performing beautiful melodies with an orchestra behind you."

Raised in Naples, he moved to Vienna at the age of six when his father opened Austria's first pizzeria. But his fiercely patriotic father would play only Italian music at home. When he was 8 his parents bought him a guitar and at 11 years old Patrizio made his first public performance at a talent contest for schools. Patrizio then began to enter more talent competitions - and always won first prize.

At the age of 17 Patrizio was invited to sing for the Pope in Poland, performing in front of his biggest audience yet - 85,000 people - which led to a recording contract shortly thereafter at age 17. However, tragedy soon followed when his beloved father died shortly after Patrizio's 17th birthday. But one thing made Patrizio determined to survive. "I had promised my father I would be a superstar and make my name - his name - famous. It is always music that reminds me of my father and makes me happy."

In 1999 Patrizio took up on an uncle's offer to return to Italy and, after winning yet another talent show, found himself offered a job as a TV entertainer. Soon he was one of the most popular young faces on Italian television, hosting his own show in between studying languages at a university in Rome. But his dream was still to be a recording artist - and most of all to be successful in Great Britain and America.

In 2003 Patrizio was introduced to music producer Christian Seitz. They both shared the same passion and vision for music, so bravely quitting his burgeoning TV career they went to work on the album - going into London's world famous Abbey Road studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to realize his dream. 18 months later the result is L'Italiano (The Italian ) an album mixing traditional Neapolitan romance and singing tradition with Italian standards from the '50s and '60s - songs barely known outside of Italy but destined to become favorites for a new generation.

To listen to Patrizio is to immerse yourself in the soundtrack of a world familiar from film and television - including Fellini and Sophia Loren.

"My music is as Italian as pasta in an Italian kitchen," says Patrizio. "These songs are timeless classics. To me, crooning is more than a way of singing; it's a way of life!".

"THE ITALIAN"

1. Il Mondo

2. Amore Scusami

3. Parla Piu Piano

4. A Man Without Love

9. On An Evening In Roma

10. Alta Marea

11. Credi In Te

Sample Listening for all Tunes at Amazon. com

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"FOREVER BEGINS TONIGHT"

1. You Don't Have To Say You Love
2. Un Angelo
3. You're My World
4. That's Amore
5. Forever Begins Tonight
6. Bella Bella Signorina
7. Smile
8. Malafemmena
9. Let's Make Love
10. Vicin' 'O Mare
11. Luna Mezz'O Mare Sample Listening for all Tunes at Amazon. com

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pd_bxgy_m_text_b/104-9201959-5613565?ie=UTF8&qid=1191110358&sr=1-1

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