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Umberto Alongi

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Genres
  
Pop

Instruments
  
Vocals

Website
  
Official website

Instrument
  
Singing

Occupation(s)
  
Singer-songwriter

Years active
  
2000 - present

Genre
  
Pop music

Albums
  
3 minuti, Come stai

Umberto Alongi

Born
  
26 July 1976 (age 40) Palermo, Italy (
1976-07-26
)

Record labels
  
Latlantide, iM Digital, Me&U Records and Artists Management Ltd

Similar
  
Emil Spada, Christian Palladino, Gianluca Corrao, Mighty Shadow, Rino Dilugano

Umberto alongi i can just be me eurovision version


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

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Umberto alongi come stai radio edit version


Biography

After living and sharing his time for years between Italy (where he was born) and Switzerland, beginning in 2014 he has been producing 5 solo albums through the record labels Music-Mad Records and with Me & U Records and Artists Management based in London. 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. 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".

The song "Come stai" written by Marco Giorgi (Mariadele) was launched on the radio on November 30, 2015.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. The song was produced by the record company Latlantide, the company with which Alongi will produce his new album.

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).

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".

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's included on his new album entitled "3 minuti"

Collaborations

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

  • Abbraciami - (Music-Mad Records)
  • Come il respiro - (Tunecore)
  • Con un altro - (Me&U Records)
  • Come stai - (Latlantide)
  • Che Natale è - (Me&U Records)
  • 3 minuti - (Me&U Records - iM Digital)
  • Featuring

  • Noi siamo qui - Contesti - (Me&U Records) - 2016
  • I miss you - Diesel'23 - 2015
  • Someone to love - Diesel'23 - 2015
  • Spanish-language singles

  • Abrazame - 2014
  • Como estas - 2015
  • Appearances

  • Eurovision Song Contest - September 2015 - Switzerland Pre-selection
  • Ghedi Festival - November 2015 - Semi-Finalist
  • Songs

    3 minuti3 minuti · 2016
    Noi siamo qui2016
    Come staiCome stai · 2016

    References

    Umberto Alongi Wikipedia