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Birth name
  
Alfred Viola

Website
  
fredoviola.com

Origin
  
London, England

Name
  
Fredo Viola

Years active
  
2004–present

Role
  
Singer · fredoviola.com

Labels
  
Because Music


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Movies
  
Untitled Studio Improvisation, The Sad Song Video

Albums
  
Revolutionary Son, Risa, Turn, The Turn

Education
  
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Genres
  
Folk music, Ambient music, Post-rock

Similar People
  
Agua Roja, Arandel, Bertrand Belin, Only Real, Curtis Harding

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Fredo Viola is an American singer/songwriter and multi-media artist. He was born in London, England, but has resided in the United States for most of his life. He currently lives in Woodstock, N.Y. He graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, but has always been most passionate about music. Viola lists some influential artists, such as Shostakovich, Britten, Bartók, Stravinsky and Belle & Sebastian.

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Career

He had an internet hit on YouTube with "The Sad Song" in 2004. In 2007, he signed with French label Because Music. He released his debut album on December 2008.

In late 2007, Fredo devoted his attention to a long series of live to Digital Performances he called "cluster videos", by releasing one video each month on his website.

In late 2008, working in collaboration with the Spanish agency Aer studio, he released an interactive web site called The Turn, a web site that also serves the function of displaying his new interactive videos. The videos come in unusual shapes (circular, hexagonal) as well as widescreen rectangles, and can be turned during playback.

His second studio album titled "Revolutionary Son" was released under Revolutionary Son Productions, LCC in April 2014. The record was said to be "An audacious album pulsing with rhythm, colour and, above all, sumptuous melody." by Chris Evans of Allmusic. It made #52 on Les Inrockuptibles list of Top 100 Albums in 2014.

In 2015, he released the first of series of short, improvised a cappella pieces titled "The Elementals: It Began To Rain" on May 1, 2015. That same year he began a music collaboration with cellist Melora Creager of the rock band Rasputina, pianist Luis Mojica, and performance artist Ryder Cooley in what was known as "The Platte Clove Nature Theater".

Albums

  • The Turn (December 2008)
  • Revolutionary Son (April 2014)
  • "The Elementals: It Began To Rain" (May 2015)
  • Singles and EPs

  • The Sad Song (February 2008)
  • Red States (December 2008)
  • Videography

  • "The Sad Song" (2004)
  • "The Turn"
  • "Silent Night"
  • References

    Fredo Viola Wikipedia