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 | |
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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 i can just be me eurovision version
- Umberto alongi come stai radio edit version
- Biography
- Collaborations
- Studio albums
- Featuring
- Spanish language singles
- Appearances
- Songs
- References
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
Studio albums
Featuring
Spanish-language singles
Appearances
Songs
3 minuti3 minuti · 2016
Noi siamo qui2016
Come staiCome stai · 2016